hiya,
My only trouble with the memory is when i’m out enjoying myself i can always remember to come home funny how it works when you’re not bothered.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry the time to worry is when you cannot remember where you house is, tie a label to your collar, I know I was enjoying myself up to sixty, after that it gets a bit hazy!
hiya,
Norm, got the label on my collar but the address isn’t my own it’s of a georgous lady a couple of streets away but the trouble is when i pretend to be lost i’m so well known that people always return me to my own house.
thanks harry long retired.
Never mind Harry, now back to the time the M1 used to end at Watford, and the Cafe was at the roundabout, I know the name, but my brain is slow, then it was completed to Brent, but if you went down the A5, a cafe on the righthand side was purchased by a coach firm, well I have stopped there many times, and down the road, a hotel used to have dances, and singles nights, had many a good time there. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norm, i can never remember the names of the cafe’s i used to frequent and there was lots of them, but Chris can rhyme them off the names, the road number they was on, and the location that’s marvellous he even recalls the ones he used to park up for his dodgy’s.
thanks harry long retired.
Two weekends ago, I went over to rugby on A428 and saw a pub that was very popular with trucker, the Halfway House, the food was excellent, the car park at the back was always full. it was boarded up and derelect, also the garage on the otherside of the road is now closed down, end of a era for pubs and truckers. Sandman Norman
Hi Norman,
Its a sad state of affairs, when you see how many places are boarded up,they were in the main good business,but the modern world seems to have no place for them,more’s the pity. I love to go into an old style transport cafe,where they ask do you want gravy on your chips,not many places ask that any more. Time I chopped this bloody soapbox up, I’ll wear it out. 
Cheers Dave.
Dave, that is one thing about these threads, we like to see your comments, this is why people keep viewing them, because we always have some imput, that they can read, for some truckers have not done or been to interesting places in this and other countries, as we have, and maybe they will come in and ask us questions, this is how you learn, by seeking knowledge. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Dave i hope the soapbox in question isn’t the one you use for an observation post when we upset people and war is declared against us, do me a favour mate and don’t discard the old box just yet, you never know when we might get somebody’s back up.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Dave i hope the soapbox in question isn’t the one you use for an observation post when we upset people and war is declared against us, do me a favour mate and don’t discard the old box just yet, you never know when we might get somebody’s back up.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Dave i hope the soapbox in question isn’t the one you use for an observation post when we upset people and war is declared against us, do me a favour mate and don’t discard the old box just yet, you never know when we might get somebody’s back up.
thanks harry long retired.
Aye,you never know who might get upset.Anyroad I’ve leased this for a month,the Ark Royal, to repel any boarders,plenty of ammo in emergency.
hiya,
Chris your a very nautical boy.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Norman Harry Chris & Co,
Just grabbed the axe off my other half and stopped her, from cutting the soapbox up . Just been polishing my old army boots and put a bit of dubbing on them,ready for the wet nights on guard duty if needed,not that I was ever in the army .
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave, you can let your old lady have the box for firewood, old Norm is en-route with a load of bricks so’s you can fabricate somethig more substanstial, you know, just in case of hostilities, Norm might be a while getting to you there must be some lively nightspot that he knows of on the way, the bricks are handball by the way, but he is the brick expert and make sure you count the quantity before you sign his note he’ll most likely have flogged half the load before he gets it to you.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Norm had better fetch some of those blue engineering bricks,they weigh about seven pounds,make a good strong wall. But on the other hand I live near several quarries including a small one that does walling stone. I am sure between us we can come up with something substantial to keep the blighters back.
Cheers Dave.
Harry “my boy” I’ve always find a good customer for aload of quality bricks, "Bricks are the foundation of Britain, and hold up many abodes, do you realise that roofs would be useless with out brick walls, so do not let anyone put down the common brick, unless he is a bricklayer, and building a foundation, which it seems Dave is in need of, so my advice to him is get a soapbox made out of granite, which he has plenty in his neck of the woods, and his wife, would have a job to destroy it with a pneumatic drill, long live the soapbox.
hiya,
There you go Dave the old rogue has a client for the “dominoes” and he has’nt even set off yet, stick with the soapbox and give your old lady a few sleepers to chop at, that should keep her off your back for a while.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I keep telling you, I am a astute businessman, not a rogue.
hiya,
Norm, you know what people say about self praise, now put that trumpet down.
thanks harry long retired.
I remember the Malt shovel in Carlisle,but my memory is fading a bit now i cant remember half the places i used to go The Duselan stane in Paisley was another one and the Watermill in the town centre. In London I usually parked in Paddington and went in the Irongate on harrow rd.or the pontefract castle on pread st.