Well J/S Norman if you are in to C/B you can go back quite a few pages, you will see some comments on C/b on the this site, many with my name on, I went under the handle " Curlytop".
Well lads as I travelled to Bournemouth and back I noticed how fast the truckers are travelling this era, pouring down I was doing 50/60 due to the conditons, I must have had about 30/40 artic’s pass me, since when is the A34 a motorway 
, I do not think in those conditions they would stand a cat in hell chance of stopping, I believe they cross their fingers and hope. I even had a Polish truck pass me when I was doing 60, this was when it eased off from raining so hard,I know it was friday and they want to get home, but I do not think they will ever reach our age. 
Looking at this thread reminds me why I loved this job as a young man,I had a great time at most of these venues,but honestly most of us didn’t get hammered on a regular basis!! Most Geordies from that era stayed at Pontefract on the way home and every one of them will recall the pub we renamed “Fraggle Rock” it was so apt.
I sometimes wonder why our younger drivers do this job just to sit in the cab every night cos they think they are party animals but they’ve never lived. Ponte, Merthyr , Doncaster no competition!!!
The labour club in merthyr what memorys except for the night the miners took time off the night shift and came down to the car park and smashed a few windscreens,
i think that was in the late seventies
Remember parking at Cardiff by the prison, and the inmates trying to attract the attention of the girls as they walked by, it was a goodnight out in the centre, or by Barry Island when Butlins was busy, used to meet some crackers there. 
norman , have you coaxed harry into trying skype yet ? it’s so simple , i am useless with technology but i managed it . i talked to our daughter in california last night & it didn’t cost a penny . i havn’t got a camera , which is a blessing for anyone on t’other end , but our daughter says she will send us one & take her chances . maybe it is time harry took the plunge !! cheers rigsby
rigsby:
norman , have you coaxed harry into trying skype yet ? it’s so simple , i am useless with technology but i managed it . i talked to our daughter in california last night & it didn’t cost a penny . i havn’t got a camera , which is a blessing for anyone on t’other end , but our daughter says she will send us one & take her chances . maybe it is time harry took the plunge !! cheers rigsby
hiya,
Norm and Rigsby have had a look my puter is rigged for everything there’s a camera thing which lets me see myself but knowing me if i try anything technical the thing is sure to go wonky so i leave well alone, like i’ve said previously said i really belong in the steam age.
thanks harry long retired.
I will tell you Rigsby,I have got as much chance as getting Harry on, as him giving up drinking whisky 
, but glad you got on with your daughter, it is nice when you can see your kin, if you do get a camera, you only plug it in on the ports on the side or rear, and put in the disc that comes with it, and it instructs your computor to accept it, you clip it on your screen, and as Harry said you can see yourself, and even photograph yourself, and send it with a e-mail, we are lucky we have it on our laptop. My daughter told my wife she is so surprised that I enhance technology so well,for a old gett, ? I just can’t get whether she was proud of me, or taking the p**s. 
, but I just cannot get my head around going on the photo bucket to post anything, it seems too much to do something that could be so simple, it is a good job Chris & Dave are up to it, but I have found the lads on here are a grand bunch and we try to help each other as well as taking the mick. 
harry_gill:
rigsby:
norman , have you coaxed harry into trying skype yet ? it’s so simple , i am useless with technology but i managed it . i talked to our daughter in california last night & it didn’t cost a penny . i havn’t got a camera , which is a blessing for anyone on t’other end , but our daughter says she will send us one & take her chances . maybe it is time harry took the plunge !! cheers rigsbyhiya,
Norm and Rigsby have had a look my puter is rigged for everything there’s a camera thing which lets me see myself but knowing me if i try anything technical the thing is sure to go wonky so i leave well alone, like i’ve said previously said i really belong in the steam age.
thanks harry long retired.
Don’t you mean “stone age” “H” Anon.
Bewick:
harry_gill:
rigsby:
norman , have you coaxed harry into trying skype yet ? it’s so simple , i am useless with technology but i managed it . i talked to our daughter in california last night & it didn’t cost a penny . i havn’t got a camera , which is a blessing for anyone on t’other end , but our daughter says she will send us one & take her chances . maybe it is time harry took the plunge !! cheers rigsbyhiya,
Norm and Rigsby have had a look my puter is rigged for everything there’s a camera thing which lets me see myself but knowing me if i try anything technical the thing is sure to go wonky so i leave well alone, like i’ve said previously said i really belong in the steam age.
thanks harry long retired.Don’t you mean “stone age” “H” Anon.
hiya,
More Neolithic (spelling) period methinks.
thanks harry long retired.
Watch it Dennis, calling my mate another type of " Fred Flintstone" come to think of it, he did invent the " Wheel",but sad to say, it was a square version. 
Norman Ingram:
Watch it Dennis, calling my mate another type of " Fred Flintstone"
hiya,
Not me Norm, have’nt got a very inventive brain the only thing i could have invented was excuses, just ask my old lady she always says, i’ve got an excuse for everything.
thanks harry long retired.
Well Harry and lads did you miss me, it is this cold, I have had it for a month, I went to the doctors on friday for my diabetes check and my flu jab, I was told I am doing a wonderful job keeping my blood sugar levels at 6.3, my chorlestral level under 5.0 and my blood pressure perfect. The doctor said the way I was going, I had a life expectancy of another 10 years at least, then he said I was not over excited, I repied I do not drink, do not smoke, I have no ■■■■■■ contact with the oppersite ■■■, I have had a bad cold for a month and a cough, please check my chest, he did and said you have a wheeze, I will put you on a course of Amoxicillin and it will clear it up! is there anything else I can do for you?Yes put me down, what do I need another ten years for, he laughed and said you are always trying to make me laugh, look forward to your next clinic,
Norman Ingram:
Well Harry and lads did you miss me, it is this cold, I have had it for a month, I went to the doctors on friday for my diabetes check and my flu jab, I was told I am doing a wonderful job keeping my blood sugar levels at 6.3, my chorlestral level under 5.0 and my blood pressure perfect. The doctor said the way I was going, I had a life expectancy of another 10 years at least, then he said I was not over excited, I repied I do not drink, do not smoke, I have no ■■■■■■ contact with the oppersite ■■■, I have had a bad cold for a month and a cough, please check my chest, he did and said you have a wheeze, I will put you on a course of Amoxicillin and it will clear it up! is there anything else I can do for you?Yes put me down, what do I need another ten years for, he laughed and said you are always trying to make me laugh, look forward to your next clinic,
hiya
Well Norman trust you to ask the Doc to put you down,you went to the wrong fellah, should have phoned me one of my best friends is a vet and for a favour to me he would do the job cut price, but no way are you going anywhere until you scoop the lottery and we get a cruise out of you.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
Well Harry and lads did you miss me, it is this cold, I have had it for a month, I went to the doctors on friday for my diabetes check and my flu jab, I was told I am doing a wonderful job keeping my blood sugar levels at 6.3, my chorlestral level under 5.0 and my blood pressure perfect. The doctor said the way I was going, I had a life expectancy of another 10 years at least, then he said I was not over excited, I repied I do not drink, do not smoke, I have no ■■■■■■ contact with the oppersite ■■■, I have had a bad cold for a month and a cough, please check my chest, he did and said you have a wheeze, I will put you on a course of Amoxicillin and it will clear it up! is there anything else I can do for you?Yes put me down, what do I need another ten years for, he laughed and said you are always trying to make me laugh, look forward to your next clinic,hiya
Well Norman trust you to ask the Doc to put you down,you went to the wrong fellah, should have phoned me one of my best friends is a vet and for a favour to me he would do the job cut price, but no way are you going anywhere until you scoop the lottery and we get a cruise out of you.
thanks harry long retired.
Hey up “H” I hope the “we” you were referring to included all of Norms other mates on the thread!!! If Norm scooped the Lottery he could Charter the cruise ship!!! That would be some P*** up!!! Ahoy there Man overboard!!! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
Well Harry and lads did you miss me, it is this cold, I have had it for a month, I went to the doctors on friday for my diabetes check and my flu jab, I was told I am doing a wonderful job keeping my blood sugar levels at 6.3, my chorlestral level under 5.0 and my blood pressure perfect. The doctor said the way I was going, I had a life expectancy of another 10 years at least, then he said I was not over excited, I repied I do not drink, do not smoke, I have no ■■■■■■ contact with the oppersite ■■■, I have had a bad cold for a month and a cough, please check my chest, he did and said you have a wheeze, I will put you on a course of Amoxicillin and it will clear it up! is there anything else I can do for you?Yes put me down, what do I need another ten years for, he laughed and said you are always trying to make me laugh, look forward to your next clinic,hiya
Well Norman trust you to ask the Doc to put you down,you went to the wrong fellah, should have phoned me one of my best friends is a vet and for a favour to me he would do the job cut price, but no way are you going anywhere until you scoop the lottery and we get a cruise out of you.
thanks harry long retired.Hey up “H” I hope the “we” you were referring to included all of Norms other mates on the thread!!! If Norm scooped the Lottery he could Charter the cruise ship!!! That would be some P*** up!!! Ahoy there Man overboard!!! Cheers Dennis.
Take him to the vets,if they put him down,donate his body to the foxhounds,it saves paying for a box.I’m sure Norm would make the hounds a good snack .
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Norm’s a very generous person Dennis you’ll be as welcome as the flowers in May, i’ll have you know Norm once bought me a breakfast at The Lincoln Farm Cafe and would’nt let me return the compliment, i had checked that the place was shut before i asked though.
thanks harry long retired.
Hey Dave, you can stick your foxhounds! I have already paid for my plot, so no burial at sea or feeding me to the dogs, Today I was in the snooker club, in my shirt & jeans, having my shot, when this slip of a girl came to the fire doors dressed in a long coat, she was going outside to clean the smokers table, she left the door open, after she came in, I said thank you darling, two old chaps have got double pneumonia, oh I am sorry, I am freezing and I have this coat on , you must use the survial method of keeping warm, how doe’s that work she said, so I said take your coat off, stand close to me, and put your arms around me and cuddle up, she did and after 5/10 minutes she said you are like a radiator, I feel a lot better.Well after we finished playing snooker we went to the counter to pay, and she was there smiling, and I said goodbye, she commented I would love you in bed to be my bodywarmer, I relied I would love you in my bed, she said what for? I said I have no idea, but it seemed a good at the time, but at our age you forget easy.
Norman Ingram:
Hey Dave, you can stick your foxhounds! I have already paid for my plot, so no burial at sea or feeding me to the dogs, Today I was in the snooker club, in my shirt & jeans, having my shot, when this slip of a girl came to the fire doors dressed in a long coat, she was going outside to clean the smokers table, she left the door open, after she came in, I said thank you darling, two old chaps have got double pneumonia, oh I am sorry, I am freezing and I have this coat on , you must use the survial method of keeping warm, how doe’s that work she said, so I said take your coat off, stand close to me, and put your arms around me and cuddle up, she did and after 5/10 minutes she said you are like a radiator, I feel a lot better.Well after we finished playing snooker we went to the counter to pay, and she was there smiling, and I said goodbye, she commented I would love you in bed to be my bodywarmer, I relied I would love you in my bed, she said what for? I said I have no idea, but it seemed a good at the time, but at our age you forget easy.
Hi Norm,
You could always flog the plot.Sounds as if there’s plenty of life in you chatting these young birds up.How are you managing with the driving these days.I seem to remember you had a electronic foot massage thing,that was helping with the feeling in your feet.
Cheers Dave.
Hi boys
Norman Ingram:
Well after we finished playing snooker we went to the counter to pay, and she was there smiling, and I said goodbye, she commented I would love you in bed to be my bodywarmer, I relied I would love you in my bed, she said what for? I said I have no idea, but it seemed a good at the time, but at our age you forget easy.
And then you woke up 
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Regards Keith