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norman_ingram · 22 October 2009 20:51

Harry you missed one, reverse

harry_gill · 22 October 2009 21:26

hiya,
Never look back or you might be tempted to want to go back and we all know that’s impossible, live for today and live in hope you’ve got a few tomorrow’s to look forward too, and so endeth the sermon .
thanks harry long retired.

chris_webb · 22 October 2009 21:30

MaggieD:
Harry,
I think Norman knows a lot about “Ladies Gearbox’s”
Hope your results are ok.
Keep taking the tablets !
ps I have telephoned the Bournemouth tourist board to tell them he’s coming this weekend
Regards Richard

I wonder if he’s going with his local soccer team,who knows,he might even be playing.
Get ready Bournemouth,Norms’ on his way.
I’ve heard that even the shop windows are bi-focal

dave_the_renegade · 22 October 2009 21:39

Hi Chris,
Was it you that organised those tippers on a go slow in Douglas last weekend. I know you want to keep it all on the boats,with your seafaring pics.
Cheers Dave.

harry_gill · 22 October 2009 21:58

hiya.
Once overnighted in Bournemouth, my one and only time i found it to be closed.
thanks harry long retired.

chris_webb · 22 October 2009 22:08

Dave the Renegade:
Hi Chris,
Was it you that organised those tippers on a go slow in Douglas last weekend. I know you want to keep it all on the boats,with your seafaring pics.
Cheers Dave.

That’s the first I’ve heard about a tipper go slow over here Dave.I know the local tipper men were not happy about the airport extension work being given to Balfour Beatty who brought a lot of tackle and drivers with them,but there was no way would they have coped with that work plus their own regular customers,and as far as I know they did get plenty of work on the extension anyway.I also heard that there were not enough tippers with insulated bodies for the tarmac work.The protest may have been about UK style MOTs and operators licences that are looming.Any vehicle with three axles or more have an annual MOT style exam anyway but it’s going to be applied to smaller vehicles,maybe 3.5 tonnes and above.
You know more about t’Isle of Man than me Dave,I must find out more about the protest.

dave_the_renegade · 23 October 2009 11:53

Chris Webb:

Dave the Renegade:
Hi Chris,
Was it you that organised those tippers on a go slow in Douglas last weekend. I know you want to keep it all on the boats,with your seafaring pics.
Cheers Dave.

That’s the first I’ve heard about a tipper go slow over here Dave.I know the local tipper men were not happy about the airport extension work being given to Balfour Beatty who brought a lot of tackle and drivers with them,but there was no way would they have coped with that work plus their own regular customers,and as far as I know they did get plenty of work on the extension anyway.I also heard that there were not enough tippers with insulated bodies for the tarmac work.The protest may have been about UK style MOTs and operators licences that are looming.Any vehicle with three axles or more have an annual MOT style exam anyway but it’s going to be applied to smaller vehicles,maybe 3.5 tonnes and above.
You know more about t’Isle of Man than me Dave,I must find out more about the protest.

Hi Chris,
This is the piece written in yesterdays Commercial Moter,sorry I haven’t scanned it very well,bit awkward for my scanner.
Cheers Dave

chris_webb · 23 October 2009 20:20

Thanks for that Dave. so it was a Norfolk haulier,Holbrook,who brought the tackle over to work for Colas,and nowt to do with Balfour Beatty.
There was nothing in the local paper about it.

harry_gill · 24 October 2009 21:48

hiya,
Don’t want any trouble on t’isle Chris, there’s a hole in my dinghy.
thanks harry long retired.

norman_ingram · 27 October 2009 01:00

Whats a matter with you Harry, can’t you swim, what is the difference between the Irish & Welsh, well when the Roman’s came, the ones who could swim, became Irish, the others stayed and were Welsh .

harry_gill · 27 October 2009 10:09

hiya,
Yes Norm used to be a quite a good swimmer, was asked the same question aged 18 when i went to join the navy i thought they’d got rid of their ships so i went into the army instead.
thanks harry long retired.

norman_ingram · 27 October 2009 19:27

Harry, I do not know if that was good for the army and bad for the navy or the other way around, bad for the army and good for the navy?, should we have a vote on it, to see what the result would be!

dave_the_renegade · 27 October 2009 19:31

The RAF would win,bit like a Buzzard with the dirty black arse of a Crow,fly up high and ■■■■ on everyone below.
Cheers Dave.

norman_ingram · 27 October 2009 20:32

Nah Dave, Harry would never be a Brylcream boy, he likes his feet on the ground, he don’t like high things.

harry_gill · 27 October 2009 21:09

hiya,
Norm i’m partial to tall women though,at age 18 two of us took a day off from the pit and went to the navy recruiting office to join up he was accepted and went on to do 22 years in the navy most of it as a submariner, me i could only be accepted as shore based staff because my eyesight was only perfect with glasses and in those days you did’nt get to sea if you had to wear specs, it’s different nowadays i know, so had to pack in at the coalmine and await call up as a soldier doing my 2 years national service and actually saw more of the world than he did.
thanks harry long retired.

norman_ingram · 27 October 2009 21:24

Harry you was always subbing when on BRS

harry_gill · 27 October 2009 22:51

hiya,
Norm once did some bits to a shipyard on the Clyde where a submarine was being built it was going to be a nuclear one when finished but was only a hull when i was there got a bit of a guided tour of her and it was so claustrophobic i don’t know how the guys who worked on them stuck that job you needed to be about five foot max with a permanent list to starboard, so you was correct i guess always subbing.
thanks harry long retired.

norman_ingram · 28 October 2009 18:18

Harry, sometimes I think you are a fruit & nut case, but you will do for me

harry_gill · 28 October 2009 20:22

hiya,
As they say in Yorkshire Norm, “daft as a brush” and it’s too late to change and if i did the family especially the little uns would disown me.
thanks harry long retired.

norman_ingram · 29 October 2009 15:47

Another tale Harry, we were travelling either to Iran Or Iraq and I was travelling behind John Bland who died three years ago (62), we was held up in this village due to a accident way in front of us, and he jumped out of his lorry with paper in his hand, and ran towards the rear of the trailor, I leaned out of my cab, he said I am dying for a tomtit, and went under his trailor and had a spread axle, came out and quickly back into his lorry, the traffic started to move, I was just about to move, when I saw this pile of muck with a piece of paper on top, it look like a michenlin man, I almost broke in to a smile, when as I pull away, this local ran in front of me, and made a gester at me , but watching my re-action, he landed in this pile. Moral of this story is, " Do not take the ■■■■ out of a trucker, or you could land in the Sh*t!)