Hi all, trouble is John it’s a job to organise something when you don’t know how many will turn up, you all way’s get them that say yes and don’t turn up then there are the one’s that turn up out off the blue.Try putting something on the other thread and see what response you get. You could end up with a lot off alcohol and food left or not enough.Or bring your own drink and a bbq always goes down well as long as it’s not too expensive .Really don’t know John or as i say perhaps give it a miss this year. 
Hi John i have just put a post on long departed which might cheer Horry up a bit.
gerbil sb152:
Hi John i have just put a post on long departed which might cheer Horry up a bit.
Good evening Gerbil that made my day. Well done to everyone organising so quickly.
I look forward to seeing you next Sunday… Please remember to bring your wallet on a chain and the R&A DKV Card as it could do with an airing…
I have sent a Telex to West Wellow and waited in the P&O Freight Office in Le Havre all night for a reply. Eventually I got a reply before last orders at Le Ferry Boat and it basically confirmed you can have what you want next Sunday as payment for all those years of hard work.
Take care, Horry
Horry:
gerbil sb152:
Hi John i have just put a post on long departed which might cheer Horry up a bit.Good evening Gerbil that made my day. Well done to everyone organising so quickly.
I look forward to seeing you next Sunday… Please remember to bring your wallet on a chain and the R&A DKV Card as it could do with an airing…I have sent a Telex to West Wellow and waited in the P&O Freight Office in Le Havre all night for a reply. Eventually I got a reply before last orders at Le Ferry Boat and it basically confirmed you can have what you want next Sunday as payment for all those years of hard work.
Take care, Horry
Hi Horry,
Sorry for the delay sending the telex but the pilot light had gone out so you should receive it soon. Thank you for your kind words regarding Kevin’s (AKA Gerbil) hard work 
as you can see in the first photo he was always trying to get round Angie for the easy loads, and when she gave in to his advances, and charm and gave him an empty tank to load in Sicily, he then transferred his attention to Gary to swap with him for the Rouen groupage trailer.
See you Sunday
Regards
Richard
PS. Asking for a friend do you still need a PIN number for the DKV card ?
Buzzer:
Central Routier, Bordeaux tonight, Buzzer
Must admit i miss the Routiers as they were always very consistent with regard to the quality of the food.
Used Bordeaux loads as well as many others.
You always knew there was a Routier very close when you saw trucks/vans parked up in a town. 
Yesterday my fencer man came to bang in the posts on the remedial fence we are upgrading, awesome bit of kit that post banger all hydraulic so never gets tired. The ground is still very hard despite the recent rain we have had but that machine is awesome, it has a 3" metal pole which can be driven in first as a pilot hole and with a 300kilo weight it certainly bangs them in, first the strainers were put in then a line set up to get the fence straight. Back today to wire up and even the staples are put in with a air gun and that makes the job a lot faster, cheers Buzzer.
Just a footnote I saw on FB that a Texel Ram was auctioned at Lanark yesterday “sportsmans double diamond” ended up making 350,000 guineas, I would not want to pay the odd shillings or 10p’s as it is today let alone the main money, Wrighty bet you wish you got one like that in your fold eh JD.
Buzzer:
Yesterday my fencer man came to bang in the posts on the remedial fence we are upgrading, awesome bit of kit that post banger all hydraulic so never gets tired. The ground is still very hard despite the recent rain we have had but that machine is awesome, it has a 3" metal pole which can be driven in first as a pilot hole and with a 300kilo weight it certainly bangs them in, first the strainers were put in then a line set up to get the fence straight. Back today to wire up and even the staples are put in with a air gun and that makes the job a lot faster, cheers Buzzer.Just a footnote I saw on FB that a Texel Ram was auctioned at Lanark yesterday “sportsmans double diamond” ended up making 350,000 guineas, I would not want to pay the odd shillings or 10p’s as it is today let alone the main money, Wrighty bet you wish you got one like that in your fold eh JD.
I remember watching one of those post bangers at work Buzzer. Like you say must have saved you some serious work so i imagine worth its weight in
gold.
Wrighty on a similar note i imagine some of your walls around your fields must be very old and apart from some repairs they seem to last forever.
I saw a fella building a dry wall once,they seem to be able to pick out the right stone for the gaps. Experience like every job i suppose.
Evening Buzzer
Yes it would be great if we had a lamb like that but to be honest it doesn’t do farming any good, it was even reported on Radio 2 the other night and if the public think all farmers make that sort of money they begin to wonder why we are subsidised.
Yes DEANB many of our walls have been stood for hundreds of years and do a good job of keeping the stock in, it is a never ending job maintaining them as they blow down, wash down, and especially the cattle can knock them down.
Does anybody know why Dennis has taken the Bewick site down…?
Cheers Wrighty.
As DeanB has already said , you can’t beat the Routiers , you haven’t lived if not tried the rabbit stew or roasted rabbit with garlic , or the cassoulet , of which is a medieval dish for the poor consisting of animal innards , or the left overs after the rich took the best of the meat .
Or the tripe dish , normally in the Normandy area , steak tartare , or raw mince meat topped with a raw egg ,not recommended after a rough sea crossing .
The oxtail is good , along with cockerel , which is tough meat to chew .
JUST THE OPPOSITE REVIEW OF THE ROUTIERS.95% of the drivers who used the Routiers was to slop the wine in to themselves,EAT DRY BREAD TO FILL YOU UP eat absolute rubbish dishes ,as mentioned,RAW STEAK, offal,all foods us as /me,ENGLISHMEN would never eat Garlic.
The only reason men used the routiers was in my opion is they were too lazy to look after themselves and cook their own dinners ,as a ex fridge man, never 2 mins for your self .i still cooked all my food for years and i never got to talk pigeon French/,English ,or furry clogs or the big stupid wallet on a chain so i never missed the routiers one bit .but everyone to their own ,my view from years ago .
A fair comment from peggydeckboy , each to their own and all that , but I couldn’t temp you with the lentil stew , eggs and bacon or the grilled trout with ham , from the now long gone Sunbilla truck stop between Pamplona and Irun ,even the much feared red caps from the Basque traffic police would grab a sneaky coffee with rum or whiskey while on duty .
Or Victors near Burgos and their heart warming potato and meat soup , great in the winter when the night heater has broken down .
Another favorite of mine was the BP over the border at Villar Formoso in Portugal , where local housewives would cook at home and take the stews to the BP for real homemade cooking .
I would cook in the cab , eating canned food if short of money , but restaurant meals were good value and the salads and fish soup in Spain were delicious .
If waiting at factories , I would get invited to eat with the workers , a five course meal for £2 ,subsidized rate , and strong unions in Portugal .
Never understood the furry clogs and naff wallets full of running money in days of no bank cards , mobile phones , trackers or sat navs , find a phone box and get a fax number for the 14 collections of ceramic tiles .
Bit from the farming scene today, took out the feed troughs to both lots of cattle today. Put a 20kilo bag of nuts in with the 24 Lims who have not had hard feed before and within half an hour they had found it and cleaned it out, then took more troughs down to the Charolais but they were mile away so left half a bag there and went back tonight and that was gone as well, they were close bye so I rattled the bag and they were straight there. Anyone who has had ought to do with moving cattle out of big fields knows the importance of bag training as I call it and today first time went really well, within a week they will be eating out me hand, cheers Buzzer.
PDB as for Routiers etc I have had some cracking meals when I did the job but always carried emergency supplies in the cab as most drivers did, its a choice thing and was it you who taught the flip flops of today how to provide for yourself, only kidding mate
wrighty:
Yes DEANB many of our walls have been stood for hundreds of years and do a good job of keeping the stock in, it is a never ending job maintaining them as they blow down, wash down, and especially the cattle can knock them down.Cheers Wrighty.
Your walls are certainly open to the elements Wrighty.
They been busy on this farm just outside Wimborne Buzzer, fair few bales in this haystack.
WAS the sun setting ,0r rising,as it will have been about 7.30am south of PARIS. and the truck heading south west or vise-versa ,i just wondered…time on my hands.