Jimmy m oh Jimmy how could you say you did not see my erection, standing proud in the air next to Saint’s rugby ground, in was Express lifts, Otis took over and closed it down after a couple of years, they just wanted to get rid of compition, you must have been keeping your eye’s on the bar ladies stockings in the Red Lion, and never lifted your head in the direction of Northampton, which was three miles away, to see the " Tower". We do like to have a laugh, it is good for you, better than any medicine, Dean Martin needed his Jerry Lewis, Bud Abbot his Lou Costella, and Harry his Norman, it is a good job we were not together on the old Red & Rust, we would have caused havoc, no-one would have got any work done, and Harry might have lead me into trouble 
hiya,
A friends wife, he was a driver, used to hate me because i was single and her old man and me was great pals, and i suppose i could charm the birds a bit in those far off days, and he was a bit of a charmer and could pull the birds a bit, but she used to blame me for “leading him astray” she once had a go at me for keeping her husband out all one Friday night the truth was i’d been tramping since the previous Sunday and did’nt get home until the Saturday morning, if my memory is still working when i called at his house to give him some changed plans from work, i was on my way home and had to pass his house, she had a go at me before knowing we had’nt met up on the Friday, called me every name in the book and finished up yelling you think you are Gods gift to women and you are but only frustrated ones, had to give that friendship the heave-ho, could’nt be doing with someone else’s irate missus, had a hard time getting rid of two of my own ex’es without getting earache from somebody else’s dragon.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
I take it that you weren’t asked to come round for sunday lunch.
Cheers Dave.
Harry, I have never been lead anywhere in my life, I have chosen the path I want to travel, I told my wife when I first married, I am a mans man, so just don’t think you can change me, I am a loyal person and will stick by friends, and help them when I can, but if you think you can find someone else who is better than me, do so.Well she has stuck to me 48years this July, she is Irish and has wanted for nothing, since she took the plunge, she knows too many Irishmen who have wifes, but have no money, due to drink. We had our hards times, when I chopped my hand in half, but I worked our way through it, and promised her, it would never happen again, and we would never be without money again, and we never did. One of my mates who was a driver with me on Carlsberg, his wife left him after 28 years, and he was heartbroken, I explained to him, when he was on the road, his was drinking, when he came home at the weekends, he was out drinking, no holidays, or shows and dance’s, the only time I saw her, was once at our firms do, and he was at the bar all the time. She knows what you are like " Corky", I can tell you this, she is not going to change her mind, she did not, five years later, he died age 60, he just treated her like a housekeeper. My wife had three or four holidays a year, several shows, at least half a dozen dance’s, and still they moan, I would say show me a women who gets more than you, and I will show you her rich husband, it never happened 
. A women always wants the husband to choose or pick the holidays, just in case they do not like it, then they can moan, sometimes they say they are bored or fed up!. So I always say darling you suggest something other than shopping, and we will do it, it is differcult for me, for you do not like any sports, you do not play any games, and now you are older and have arthritis, you cannot dance, please oh please let me know what we can do?, then it is silence, and things are back to normal.
Harry, I have never been lead anywhere in my life, I have chosen the path I want to travel, I told my wife when I first married, I am a mans man, so just don’t think you can change me, I am a loyal person and will stick by friends, and help them when I can, but if you think you can find someone else who is better than me, do so.Well she has stuck to me 48years this July, she is Irish and has wanted for nothing, since she took the plunge, she knows too many Irishmen who have wifes, but have no money, due to drink. We had our hards times, when I chopped my hand in half, but I worked our way through it, and promised her, it would never happen again, and we would never be without money again, and we never did. One of my mates who was a driver with me on Carlsberg, his wife left him after 28 years, and he was heartbroken, I explained to him, when he was on the road, his was drinking, when he came home at the weekends, he was out drinking, no holidays, or shows and dance’s, the only time I saw her, was once at our firms do, and he was at the bar all the time. She knows what you are like " Corky", I can tell you this, she is not going to change her mind, she did not, five years later, he died age 60, he just treated her like a housekeeper. My wife had three or four holidays a year, several shows, at least half a dozen dance’s, and still they moan, I would say show me a women who gets more than you, and I will show you her rich husband, it never happened . A women always wants the husband to choose or pick the holidays, just in case they do not like it, then they can moan, sometimes they say they are bored or fed up!. So I always say darling you suggest something other than shopping, and we will do it, it is differcult for me, for you do not like any sports, you do not play any games, and now you are older and have arthritis, you cannot dance, please oh please let me know what we can do?, then it is silence, and things are back to normal.
Bloodything got a wobbly.
Hi Norm,
Was that the Corky,that was on with Sykes and Hattie.
Cheers Dave.
No Dave, his name was G Corkram, you would have laught, I booked a holiday to Tenerife " Paraiso del sol, and a couple of other mates wanted to come, then they wanted to bring a girlfriend, so I got them a apartment for each couple, and one for myself, then he said could he come, none of them had been abroad before, I said are you taking a girl with you, he replied no, I still have not got over my wife leaving me, so I said he could share with me, he would have a room on his own. We was there, and having breakfast in this little cafe next to the apartment hotel, there was music, and I started to sing, he said stop that, people will think we are queers , I laughed and said lighten up Corky, you are on holiday, and people drink eat and sing. Later that evening, we were in the bar, and a trio was playing, a German & his wife was talking to two Belgium women in German, and corky was standing near them, and they spoke to him, I told them he did not understand their language, and they asked me where I came from, I told them to guess, they said Dutch, I shook my head, German, no. because I was very dark brown, they said Africania, and I said no, speak more, so I did, the women said you are not Belgium,I smiled. Please tell us, I am English, my Friend is English, no never you cannot be, so I spoke in English, ask my friend, he only speaks that, and I know most Belgiums do, so they did, and the Germans, but were not good, and then they believe me, and Corky was getting well in with Crysal, and I was ok with Maria, but thats another story. 
Hi Norman,
I can see it was you that persuaded Ted Heath to get us into the Common Market,so you could chat up the women and more. You should have stood as an M E P,you would have had plenty of money and no shortage of female’s,although it sounds as if you did ok in that area anyway,wonder what Harry is going to make of all these shenannigans you got up too.
Cheers Dave.
hi lads aye chris it was indeed hucknal. i was on days and just tipped next to tower and thought i’d grab a few zzzzzzzzzs. was just dozing off and they started sspooling the bloody thing up 
anyway i went and had a look as i’m into planes big time. the engine was set quite high up on a tower and flames were shooting out the arse end. 
norman…i must apologise for never having seen your erection standing proudly at northampton. i used to do at least 2 nights a week at the red lion on way back to kent. many a laugh we had in there. harry,I see you live in chester-le-street, I parked up there on a few occasions if we were lucky enough not to get overnighted at either ellids consett or k/clark prudhoe. used to know the shunters in mill quite well. jimmy went later into office and tommy still shunting when we ended contract. there was another bloke whos name escapes me 
he might have been another jimmy. there are a few about so ive found out 
it was him that put me on to chester-le-street. mostly it was back from scotland, into mill, drop trailer and shunters would load it overnight for lenham. spent many a night in the adam and eve pub next to mill. was in that pub I saw the most beautiful girl I have ever clapped eyes on. it was a fri night and I hated getting stuck up that far, i wanted back to red lion, but she made up for it
hiya,
Tell you what chaps just hope my old lady does’nt learn how to use the computer and “meets” all you guys she’ll smash the thing for associating with all you babe magnets, and beat me up thinking i’m as bad you lot, a bit late Dave i did’nt get an invite to Sunday lunch and only had a drink with her husband when him and me was down the road together on the rare occasion staying in the same digs, had enough problems with jealous husbands on my own patch without getting earache from his dragon as well, so tried to avoid my “former” pal when on the lash/hunt on my home ground.
thanks harry long retired.
parked under the arches if I recall at chester-le-street. pubs were good and the chippy mega 
come on harry.you wrote the book, we’re only reading the pages. we youngsters are only following the leader, a bit like lemmings i think
hiya,
Yes Jimmy the car park is well used see quite a lot of stuff on there at night when passing, i only live 5 minutes from the arches and used the park myself when on the road, in fact if you went under the arches into the very steep field and looked up to your right you can see my street.
thanks harry long retired.
hi harry. one of ours got blown over just after coming out of elldis consett and he used the old “need a new mirror” routine back to lenham. budha rang up trans office one day and said “cant get a gear” and whoever he spoke to said, you’ve got a box full of the fukcn things! brilliant answer. wish i’d thought of that one 
heavens harry, how will we know it’s you and not your wife that comes on■■? we could all be in the sh*t. she could put out wee feelers and we’d say yes thats right harry i remember her and the python oh and smelly nellie with the big fat belly, yep been there 
oh and dirty doris who sang in the chorus, yep she was a good un and fridgid fanny who looked like my granny, you remember her harry? So we are sitting on our pcs giving it the wellie and your misses is takin all this in while youre down the shops or bookies or round ethels house,(p.s she’s already got a contract out on norm by this time), and after youve had your jollies with ethel you come home and next thing you know you are wearing your lap-top. so i think you should log on as harry_gill long time retired…ohhhh ■■■■ that WAS your misses i was chatting to. harry harry who? never met the chappie
hiya,
At the moment my old lady would’nt have a clue how to switch the thing on but should she ever show an interest i would have to make sure this one became disfunctional and start all over again with a new machine, you would know the difference between me and her, she’s sensible and has never been in the cab of a lorry in her life, once asked her if she wanted a lift when going past her then place of work, she retorted she’d rather walk so being the gentleman i have always been i let her.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry, You had better not persuade her to retire,if she doe’s,she might take an interest in computers with spare time on her hands.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Why Dave?? do you think i’ve spun enough rope to hang myself, i’m in the Florence Nightingale theme today she has been poorly overnight and has been in bed all day with a bug of some sort don’t know which is harder taxiing for her or being her nurse, at least i have’nt had to do any driving today, she must be feeling rough because she does’nt like being off work, but i’ve warned her this is the last year in employment and she says she will chuck it at Christmas, so might be on the hunt for number four if she does’nt keep to her word, come to think of it she might renage on that promise just to get rid of me, ah well.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Sorry to hear your good lady is unwell,suppose in her job,meeting a lot of unwell people she is bound to pick up whatever they have,just hope you don’t catch it as well.
Cheers Dave.
Harry, take a step back, and consider, are you not being a little cruel, making your wife stop work, and spend all her time with you. ,