This thread brings back some old memories…anyone remember the Truck Park by the Swimming Baths at Southampton?
After a good bath we used to go up to the Shopping centre and eat at theWimpy Bar, didn’t cost me a penny, I was having an affair with the Manageress and two of the waitresses, all at the same time…I was young then, end of the 70’ties beginning of the 80 'ies…was working for Roseberry haulage out of Stokesley, driving a black Mack cabover with a black tri-axle Tilt carrying Nissan Forklifts. usually in Southampton on Tuesday and / or Thursday nights.
Used to get in the Pub up the steps from the Baths where the ■■■■■■■ dancers worked, think it was called The JB, Juniper Berry, can’t remember as it’s a long time ago…
Sometimes used to park up on the Seafront at Brighton, used to be a Pub there by the roundabout, Red Lion I think it was called.
jetstream:
This thread brings back some old memories…anyone remember the Truck Park by the Swimming Baths at Southampton?
After a good bath we used to go up to the Shopping centre and eat at theWimpy Bar, didn’t cost me a penny, I was having an affair with the Manageress and two of the waitresses, all at the same time…I was young then, end of the 70’ties beginning of the 80 'ies…was working for Roseberry haulage out of Stokesley, driving a black Mack cabover with a black tri-axle Tilt carrying Nissan Forklifts. usually in Southampton on Tuesday and / or Thursday nights.
Used to get in the Pub up the steps from the Baths where the ■■■■■■■ dancers worked, think it was called The JB, Juniper Berry, can’t remember as it’s a long time ago…
Sometimes used to park up on the Seafront at Brighton, used to be a Pub there by the roundabout, Red Lion I think it was called.
So the manageress and waitresses got a bit of Roseberry Topping then Jetstream.For them that don’t know it’s a hill between Stokesley and Guisborough,I know me geography,there was a haulier from round that way called A.Stevens at Great Ayton.And it would have been the Juniper Berry in S’oton… 
Anorak on and away…
I think every driver who stop at southampton,must have known about the J berry, I remember a chap tell me telling me he was going for a meal and to see his girl who was a mangeress at a fast food place in the centre, this was in the 72/75, when I was on camping gaz, and I saw this person, she was dark hair medium lenth in a two piece suit, I may be wrong, but I thought she was of two races, if this is the case, I walked up with you from the lorry park, Jetstream, that night I ended up at a dance.
Norman Ingram:
I think every driver who stop at southampton,must have known about the J berry, I remember a chap tell me telling me he was going for a meal and to see his girl who was a mangeress at a fast food place in the centre, this was in the 72/75, when I was on camping gaz, and I saw this person, she was dark hair medium lenth in a two piece suit, I may be wrong, but I thought she was of two races, if this is the case, I walked up with you from the lorry park, Jetstream, that night I ended up at a dance.
hiya
Norman I must have been too hard working all i wanted to do when i got parked up was get to the digs bathed and bed, and i was married, well most of the time anyway, you could’nt have shifted my halo with a JCB.
thanks harry iong retired.
Norman Ingram:
Harry do not lie to me, more likely you was in a pub drinking a few glasses of your golden necture, and has for your halo, I bet you could never find one, and I would win afew squid at Ladbrokes, if they would ever give me odds, 
but you being a mate of mine, I will lend your mine. 
hiya,
No Norman i used to do my boozing at lunch time in the bosses time, was’nt going to spend my own time abusing my body and the halo was a replica of a solid gold 900/20 Norm i’m not cheap only the best for me, still trying my luck on the gee gees did two lucky 15s today 8 horses all placed but not one winner, ah well it’ll be next Saturday before i need to make another donation to the Ladbroke benevolent fund, i just hope the gentleman is taking care of my investment.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I had this computor technician, by god he is s**thot, he had my pad & scroll on one set working great, then he done my other set and said this laptop is very slow, I said why, he replied it has only got 1gig memory, so he is upgrading it for me, he charges one fee £30, no call out fee, if he cannot fix it, no fee is payable, so I am on my newer model which is 3 gigs and a lot faster, he is even fixing my camera, this one works ok, have you got one on your new laptop, I am trying to get my mate in America to get one, then we can see each other when we talk to each other, I only want him to see how handsome I still am! 
Norman Ingram:
Harry I had this computor technician, by god he is s**thot, he had my pad & scroll on one set working great, then he done my other set and said this laptop is very slow, I said why, he replied it has only got 1gig memory, so he is upgrading it for me, he charges one fee £30, no call out fee, if he cannot fix it, no fee is payable, so I am on my newer model which is 3 gigs and a lot faster, he is even fixing my camera, this one works ok, have you got one on your new laptop, I am trying to get my mate in America to get one, then we can see each other when we talk to each other, I only want him to see how handsome I still am!
hiya,
Yes Norm my notebook laptop has a built in camera can see myself but don’t know how to use it thank goodness i did manage to see myself on the screen and frightened myself to death so that bit will remain unused but i would like to use it when talking to my sisters in Cornwall and Australia they know what i look like and would’nt give them too much of a shock, bring back the steam age i say or better still indian smoke signalling.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, I used it with my grandaughter, you know the image of two people on your email when you have log in, I would click on to that, enter the email you was friends with, and the camera was on that, you would click on to use it, and it would go to the person you wanted to contact , and if they accepted the camera, they could see you and you could see them, if you have a built in mike or you plug in a mike you can speak as well as see them, but I could see , and typed what I wanted to say, and I could see their response. You have a similar emblem on this page, it has members by its side. I used the camera many times, but unless they have a camera the other end, you cannot do it. 
Norman Ingram:
Harry, I used it with my grandaughter, you know the image of two people on your email when you have log in, I would click on to that, enter the email you was friends with, and the camera was on that, you would click on to use it, and it would go to the person you wanted to contact , and if they accepted the camera, they could see you and you could see them, if you have a built in mike or you plug in a mike you can speak as well as see them, but I could see , and typed what I wanted to say, and I could see their response. You have a similar emblem on this page, it has members by its side. I used the camera many times, but unless they have a camera the other end, you cannot do it.
hiya,
Norman i wish you would’nt keep getting technical with me, i was a lorry driver not a brain surgeon, at my time of life i’m entitled to be thick but i do have a drinking chum called mike he’s got a big gob but i don’t think his voice would carry to Australia, how you doing mate??.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Norm try telling my wife i’m not thick she says i am and she always tells the truth so she says and thats the way i like it, i can’t paint i can’t decorate hopeless at DIY useless in the garden, but i have a pal who is an “expert” at all the afore mentioned tasks always wearing overalls never gets out always doing something or other around the house and he’s cheap if i wan’t anything doing, yes Norm i’m quite happy to be thick, please don’t try to educate me i’m now conditioned to being useless and long may it last.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
u need to be careful mate…Wife complains to her old man…the sink tap needs fixing…I’m a driver, not a bloody plumber…the living room lamp isn’t working…I’m a driver, not an electrician…he goes off to work, comes home a couple of nights later…sink tap not leaking, living room lamp is working…asks his wife who did the repairs…that nice young man who moved in next door she says…what did he want for payment?
A nice chocolate cake or a good session in the bedroom says she in reply…baked him a cake then did you…says he…then his missus says
I’m not a baker…
Sorry it’s off-topic…
jetstream:
Hi Harry,
u need to be careful mate…Wife complains to her old man…the sink tap needs fixing…I’m a driver, not a bloody plumber…the living room lamp isn’t working…I’m a driver, not an electrician…he goes off to work, comes home a couple of nights later…sink tap not leaking, living room lamp is working…asks his wife who did the repairs…that nice young man who moved in next door she says…what did he want for payment?
A nice chocolate cake or a good session in the bedroom says she in reply…baked him a cake then did you…says he…then his missus says
I’m not a baker…
Sorry it’s off-topic…
hiya,
Not off topic mate you don’t have to apologise on here all contributions are welcome,and your right mate i’ll need to pull my socks up my old lady can’t bake either and we do have a dripping tap, ah well you’ve made me a changed man i’d better see if i can find my toolbox i’ll have look down the shed “next week”.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi jetstream, what are you doing in Hidelberg, hope you are not trying to drink that huge vat of wine, like that little in the castle.
jetstream:
Hi Harry,
u need to be careful mate…Wife complains to her old man…the sink tap needs fixing…I’m a driver, not a bloody plumber…the living room lamp isn’t working…I’m a driver, not an electrician…he goes off to work, comes home a couple of nights later…sink tap not leaking, living room lamp is working…asks his wife who did the repairs…that nice young man who moved in next door she says…what did he want for payment?
A nice chocolate cake or a good session in the bedroom says she in reply…baked him a cake then did you…says he…then his missus says
I’m not a baker…
Sorry it’s off-topic…
Norman Ingram:
Harry I have learnt something else, if you click on google and type in skype, you can sign in free, and get free calls on your laptop and use your camera, I am going to tell my mate in usa, my computor expert showed me, I just had to turn up my speakers, so I could ear him. 
hiya,
Norm from age 5 to age 15 the teachers tried their hardest to educate me, they did’nt succeed not that i attended school very often and you are trying fill my head with new technology, i am happy being an idiot people don’t ask me for advice or to do jobs for them, peace brother, seriously Norm i’ll have a look but if there’s any technical jargon i won’t be able to understand like i’ve said before i belong in the steam age could just see myself an apprentice to George Stephenson putting the Rocket together, his workshop is still up the road in Newcastle, next time i’m up that way i’ll get myself an application form, who knows??.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Norman,
been in Heidelberg for about 25 years now since I left Teesside in 85…was working for Union Trucks selling Scania’s when the recession hit and ther bottom fell out of the market just as the 3 axle tractors were coming out…then got a job offer from an American company to work in Germany, that was at the time when Norman Tebbitt said “Get on ya Bike” so I went one better and got on an aeroplane…and I’ve been here since then apart from living in France, on the border by Basel, for 7 years but still working in Germany, but that will end at the end of the month as I’m moving to Norway to work for a Norwegian company.
By the way, we both have the same first name, Jetstream was my old CB monika when I was still trucking…
Norman Ingram:
Hi jetstream, what are you doing in Hidelberg, hope you are not trying to drink that huge vat of wine, like that little in the castle.
jetstream:
Hi Harry,
u need to be careful mate…Wife complains to her old man…the sink tap needs fixing…I’m a driver, not a bloody plumber…the living room lamp isn’t working…I’m a driver, not an electrician…he goes off to work, comes home a couple of nights later…sink tap not leaking, living room lamp is working…asks his wife who did the repairs…that nice young man who moved in next door she says…what did he want for payment?
A nice chocolate cake or a good session in the bedroom says she in reply…baked him a cake then did you…says he…then his missus says
I’m not a baker…
Sorry it’s off-topic…