hiya,
Norman got your share and and just about everybody else in the UKs as well, the damned stuff is still coming down, I’m back on the road again tomorrow for another four shifts, have’nt been on the computer much the last couple of days but my grandaughter has been using it with the schools being closed, you’ll have read about "our "Dave poor lads in hospital with pneumonia but the good news is he’s on the mend and should be home in the next few days, tell you what mate i’ll be glad when everything is back to normal and we can have a bit of a chat, I’ve told my old lady that if she does’nt pack in working after this lot she’ll be looking for a new husband/driver i think she said hooray, the firm she works f.or keep asking her to stay when she mentions retiring, and i’ts no bleeding wonder they’re getting two for the price of one, they did thank me in her pay packet this week I’ve got a drawer full of thank you’s.
thanks harry long retired
Hi Harry, sorry to hear about welsh Dave, hope he gets better soon. We are having a little snow at the moment, just when the roads was clearing up on our estate, its the paths that are dangerous, the wife has not been down town, for she walks to the bus stop, and the paths in town are not cleared, with her new knee, she don’t want to fall. Do you mean you wife never splits her pay packet with you. if I was you I would go on strike for better pay & conditions,
hiya,
Tell you what Keith just you wait until your retired you’ll be as crazy as old Norm and me and believe me it is’nt very long before the rot sets in, so you keep giving the old Scania big licks for as long you can at least you can’t be crackers when doing that job HSE and VOSA won’t allow it.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello Harry I was beginning to go ga ga, with no-one on the threads, , poor Keith has got a while until he retires. Then like Dave ( Rigby) I could not get on trucknet, but said about that on my other thread, but it is nice to know there is still people alive and kicking out there, I thought I had B.O.
Hi boys
Driving nowadays sometimes drives you crazey never mind you lot. Your making me old before my time Norm whats this “ga ga” all about, the only one I’ve heard off is lady ga ga but I think she’s to young and fast for me never mind you.
Keith, I see we had to teach you young bucks, ga ga was used years before lady ga ga was born, it was a term used for old folks who was losing thier mental capacity. As for choosing that robot type blonde, I like real women, Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Haywood, Mizi Gaynor, Rhonda Fleming, Debra Kerr, they make your heart beat faster.
Norman Ingram:
Keith, I see we had to teach you young bucks, ga ga was used years before lady ga ga was born, it was a term used for old folks who was losing thier mental capacity. As for choosing that robot type blonde, I like real women, Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Haywood, Mizi Gaynor, Rhonda Fleming, Debra Kerr, they make your heart beat faster.
hiya,
Norman my old fellah described me as being ga ga at age 15 for becoming a coalminer the only member of my family to have ever done the job but i think the ga ganess must have got worse i eventually became a lorry driver and i’ve been gradually getting worse ever since.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello Harry, I think you will carry on a few more years yet before you will reach your perfection of Ga Ga ness, then again with all that lubrication you have the habit of tickling your toncils with, you may reach your peak any moment!
hiya,
Norman when i re-read some of the rubbish i write on here i’ve convinced myself i’m totally crackers and if anybody happens to read my stuff even by mistake they must be crackers as well, and i said to myself what a wonderful world.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry if you are crackers, I am glad, for I enjoy your banter and your warped sense of humour. Myself I have a pecular type of humour, but like you bear no malice to anyone, I will fight my corner if I say something, and people say it is not true, but do not get upset. Life is too short to get upset by what people choose to say.
Norman Ingram:
Harry if you are crackers, I am glad, for I enjoy your banter and your warped sense of humour. Myself I have a pecular type of humour, but like you bear no malice to anyone, I will fight my corner if I say something, and people say it is not true, but do not get upset. Life is too short to get upset by what people choose to say.
I think you two veteran drivers give us all a tonic on Trucknet with a bit of light hearted banter.Long may it continue.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Harry if you are crackers, I am glad, for I enjoy your banter and your warped sense of humour. Myself I have a pecular type of humour, but like you bear no malice to anyone, I will fight my corner if I say something, and people say it is not true, but do not get upset. Life is too short to get upset by what people choose to say.
C’mon Norm get off the fence and join “H” and me in the trench(the Big J 8LXB thingy!) If you dither you will get caught in “no-mans land” and when the smelly stuff starts flying our way “H” and me will be in the Dug -out and we ain’t coming out to get covered in you know what,for nobody!!!Its a right comfy little scrape we’ve got! just about as comfortable as a Big J cab in the depths of winter 'a top of Shap Fell!!! Cheers Dennis.
Thank you Dave, nice to see you are about, tell your wife to wrap you up in cotton wool and keep you safe.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Harry if you are crackers, I am glad, for I enjoy your banter and your warped sense of humour. Myself I have a pecular type of humour, but like you bear no malice to anyone, I will fight my corner if I say something, and people say it is not true, but do not get upset. Life is too short to get upset by what people choose to say.
I think you two veteran drivers give us all a tonic on Trucknet with a bit of light hearted banter.Long may it continue.
Cheers Dave.
Dennis stop stirring, the nearest I got to a trench was on the firing range, since I was a apprentice plumber on the railway, I was in a trench to repair a burst water main and corking it up. it was wet cold and I did not like it a bit. So I did my best to advoid them.
Bewick:
Norman Ingram:
Harry if you are crackers, I am glad, for I enjoy your banter and your warped sense of humour. Myself I have a pecular type of humour, but like you bear no malice to anyone, I will fight my corner if I say something, and people say it is not true, but do not get upset. Life is too short to get upset by what people choose to say.
C’mon Norm get off the fence and join “H” and me in the trench(the Big J 8LXB thingy!) If you dither you will get caught in “no-mans land” and when the smelly stuff starts flying our way “H” and me will be in the Dug -out and we ain’t coming out to get covered in you know what,for nobody!!!Its a right comfy little scrape we’ve got! just about as comfortable as a Big J cab in the depths of winter 'a top of Shap Fell!!! Cheers Dennis.
Norman Ingram:
Thank you Dave, nice to see you are about, tell your wife to wrap you up in cotton wool and keep you safe.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Harry if you are crackers, I am glad, for I enjoy your banter and your warped sense of humour. Myself I have a pecular type of humour, but like you bear no malice to anyone, I will fight my corner if I say something, and people say it is not true, but do not get upset. Life is too short to get upset by what people choose to say.
I think you two veteran drivers give us all a tonic on Trucknet with a bit of light hearted banter.Long may it continue.
Cheers Dave.
I’m ok without the cotton wool Norm,just need to stay in the warm until I’m fully clear of this lot.Resigned off several committes I was on,not going out in the cold night air again.Got a good woman and a warm home,I’m quite happy to stay indoors and watch tele or come on Trucknet.Will be putting more on here in the future,not that it will make much sense to any of you .
Cheers Dave.
Well Dave if you come on here and do not make much sense, you will be on par with Harry & me, you could say the Three stooges, take care and stay fit. Norman
Hi Norm,
Never did talk a lot of sense this way. Have you got much snow in Northampton,we have between 9 inches and a foot here,its going to be a long winter the way its shaping up.I don’t remember as much cold weather as this before christmas,we did have a lot of snow in December 1981,but not the severe cold with it.Hope it soon melts and gets warmer again.I expect Harry is doing his chauffeuring for his wife.
Cheers Dave.
Dave, 1962/63 winter was the worst one, it was on the ground for twelve weeks freezing, very hard to walk on, I remember it well my son Paul was born on the 27th Nov. premature kept in a incurbator for a month, came out before christmas and the weather was bitter, I had a haligen two tube electric fire above his bed, it cost me a small fortune to keep him safe, and the so in so has still not paid me back. Yes 1981 started snowing on about Jan 13th, it was so cold we could not get the lorries started, out of the fleet we got five, my got to J 16 of the M1 and I was hotting up, and returned to the brewery, and parked just inside the gates, it was a leyland, one got to the motorway and pulled up, the other three never made it out of Northampton. Then to had insult to me, I was have a breakfast,I looked out of the window, and my vehicle caught fire, I told the firemen I had a camping gaz bottle in the passager side on the floor, they opened the door and sprayed water on to it to keep it cool, the fire was soon put out, it was caused by wiring breaking because it was so brittle. The chairman of Bulwark was visiting and spoke to me, I told him the problem, he said good we will get paid by the insurance, put this engine in another lorry, for we are getting rid of them, and having DAF’s, they was grand little motors, never had problem with them , even in the cold weather. PS. WE have suffered in Northampton with snow, at least 1/2 inch.
I remember the winter of 1963 well Norm,I was 15 and doing a sunday paper round which was four miles long,it was bloody hard work ■■■■■■■ papers in a bag,sometimes the road was clear enough to use my bike,but I walked quite a bit.My Dad took pity a couple of times and took me in the car.We had heavy snow here in December 9th 1981,then we had one of the heaviest falls of snow in my memory in January 1982,it started snowing on te thursday night and didn’t stop until the saturday lunchtime.We had 36 inches of snow in 36 hours,nothing could move,most of the Farmers around here had two wheel drive tractors,one or two hired loading shovels out of the quarries to clear around their yards,it was chaos.By the next winter most of the Farmers had got four wheel drive traactors.Now most of them around here have got some really big kit.
Cheers Dave.
