Harry we got a lot of rain too, in fact still getting it, that white stuff won’t go with the daff’s, and tulips and Hyacinths so you stop it from comming down here, 
you know I am keen on my plants Harry. 
does anyone remember the colenials cafe at bloxwich with its disco,sorry about the spelling,got into trouble there afew times
hiya,
Have used a cafe called the Kernel in that area i think, but no Disco in my day music was’nt even invented.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Have used a cafe called the Kernel in that area i think, but no Disco in my day music was’nt even invented.
thanks harry long retired.
Thats the one harry,when i stopped there in the 80s[i think]there was a nightclub next door,didn,t stop there very often
the parking was a real load tester and if you stepped in a pothole in wet weather they would probably have only found yer cap lol.
regards dave.
These places keep popping up, Harry we know you was not interested in dancing, because you have two left feet , I know the place, but never had a nightout there. then again I could have but it never stuck in my brain. 
hiya,
Norm the Kernel was just a cafe ■■■ digs when i used it last would have been the late 60s to early 70s, seem to remember there was a pub not too far away, so at least if you was on a rubbish job you could always drown your sorrows.
thanks harry long retired.
Believe it or not, when I got to some digs , I washed up, had my meal. and watched a hour of TV, then went to bed cream crackered, it was not all ■■■■■■■ stuff! 
I believed in Father Christmas until I was 28 Norm.
Good boy, keep it up kid.
Dave the Renegade:
I believed in Father Christmas until I was 28 Norm.
Norman Ingram:
Believe it or not, when I got to some digs , I washed up, had my meal. and watched a hour of TV, then went to bed cream crackered, it was not all ■■■■■■■ stuff!
hiya,
Now Norm i could’nt have described my behaviour when away from home better myself, you’ve got me sussed good buddy, if i’d been married my wife would have believed you too.
thanks harry long retired
Harry if I was to bet, most times you would be having a few wee drams, just for medical reasons, like to stop your tongue getting entangled in the steering wheel due to lack of alcohol. 
hiya,
Norm always had a bottle of Scotch in my overnight bag and always carried a hip flask, the heaters in those motors of yesteryear was crap and me Mam did’nt want me to catch cold when away from home, but was economical with the golden nectar a bottle used to last me two days, once got the remains of a bottle nicked when overnighting at the London House Kirkpatrick Fleming swear blind it was them Munro’s lot.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, there is a place I have not heard mentioned for years, Kirkpatrick Fleming and the old lodgings, I had totally erased that from my memory, I only stop there once.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Norm always had a bottle of Scotch in my overnight bag and always carried a hip flask, the heaters in those motors of yesteryear was crap and me Mam did’nt want me to catch cold when away from home, but was economical with the golden nectar a bottle used to last me two days, once got the remains of a bottle nicked when overnighting at the London House Kirkpatrick Fleming swear blind it was them Munro’s lot.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry I once acquired a GALLON of Chivas Regal and got week ended up there but thumbed it home with my gallon container in a plastic bag and all our lass went on about is what would you have done if the police had stopped you as it was around midnight when I got home but I was not leaving it as the dip stick hole was sealed after I had taken a “sample” and some bugger might have stolen it if I had left in the wagon ha ha, it did last me a fir time .
cheers Johnnie hic hic
hiya,
Yes Johnnie i’d have guarded that much quality booze as well, if i had seen you had left it unattended i’d have nicked it and swallowed the evidence, now where did i leave that flipping motor.
thanks harry long retired.
I hope you never got tanked up like a couple of our lads did at Berwick, one was found in his cab, sick all over the place, and his bed in the digs not touched, the other one was asleep in the snow by his cab, he was lucky he never froze to death, both died later in life in their sixties.
hiya,
What a way to go Norm full to the gunnels with top quality scotch, but i’d have got into the digs before emptying the bottle not nice not to turn up when you’ve booked a bed.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I can just see you in hospital, and the doctor saying you need a blood transfusion, and you saying just put on a bottle of scotch whisky, that will keep me going,
Norman Ingram:
Harry I can just see you in hospital, and the doctor saying you need a blood transfusion, and you saying just put on a bottle of scotch whisky, that will keep me going,
hiya,
Was rushed into hospital about three and a half years ago before i started posting stuff on here my immune system had packed up due to the chemotherapy over the previous three months, i’d developed pneumonia and my organs was starting to shut down, had to spend the Christmas and New Year in there and i was saved by blood transfusions, i had quite a lot i believe just about refilled my tanks i still have to carry a card, something about in an emergency and something about antibodies, i don’t understand all the ins and outs but my old lady tells everybody i almost croaked, and she says she does’nt like wearing black thats why she phoned for the ambulance when i said i did’nt want her to.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, with my sense of humour, I had a 20 stone driver who said he did not want to be buried, I said you will have to be George, why he said, because you would keep burning for a month, and they would fall behind with the rest of the cremations, so they would refuse to do you, he started to chase me around the yard, but was soon out of puff lucky for me.