hiya,
Yes Norm have landed myself in the fertilizer business on more than one occasion during my lifetime, we all must have methinks.
thanks harry long retired.
Bad, bad, news, you know my mate Bill, who we have been helping this last three weeks, he had to go to the hospital today over a stomach problem, he has been told he has the big “C” down below, I told him I know a couple of bowlers at our club who had similar problem, but are doing ok now, just hope for the best. 
hiya,
Norm, i had to have the majority of my stomach removed nearly four years ago, that was as a result of the “C” thingy, tell Bill to get looked at quickly and there’s a good chance he’ll make a good recovery, in this day and age survival rates are very good.
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Harry, thanks for that, I will tell, even show him your comments, I am a big softy where old mates are concerned, and has I get older, I have been to , too many funerals, and I am too sentimental for my own good. 
hiya,
Thanks for that Norm, it will be more difficult for Bill than it was for me, my wife is in quite good health and capable with the help of our daughter of doing the running about which in my case was rather more than normal, the chemo knocked my immune system for six and i developed pneumonia i very nearly croaked on that occasion but it was’nt my time just then so they got me strong enough and i had the surgery and have had nearly four years of reasonable health since that time, i’m aware i won’t be doing the London marathon or even be able to rope and sheet an eight legger and trailer or able to whip a trailer boy with any conviction but i’ve still got a heartbeat and a pulse so i guess i’m still alive and that’s all that matters, just hope Bill has got family and friends nearby i was lucky in that respect.
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I think he will get a lot of that Harry, I will phone him up in a day or two, just letting him have times to adjust to the situation.
hiya,
Norm i think you’ll find it’s Bill’s family who’ll be more affected by the diagnosis than the man himself, when they told me i had the “C” thingy i just knew what was wrong, just had the feeling, the missus and the daughter were both in bits, and i just wanted a cuppa and something to eat having fasted for the camera tests they was doing, knowing what id had/have did’nt bother me in the slightest being diagnosed early is the secret that’s what they told me.
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My old mate Bill was saying to me about when I had my accident in Turkey, I said yes, and you said if you was my boss,. you would not pay me, then a couple of days after you left Londra camping, I was chatting to a Austrian driver, who told me he had seen two of my firms lorries in Yugo on the border, and one was on the railway track, I asked which one, the big chap with blonde hair, or the old chap, he told me the old one. Next time when I saw Bill I pulled him up about what he had said, and now he had been on the railway track, he replied who told you, I just laught and said I have my spies 
, he told me this car had ran into him, then was trying to claim money, he jumped out of the cab and ran after this man, when the look of horror on his face, and pointed to the rear, he had forgot the handbrake in his rage, and the lorry & trailer was rolling back, but he thought it would stop against the posts that was stuck in the ground, but it went through the middle of two of them, and on to the track, causeing damage to the air tanks and pipes, when they got it back up, he had to be towed until he reached Germany, to be repaired. Moral was do not take the high and mighty attitude with another driver, when he has had a accident, because it can happen to you?
hiya,
Yes Norm anybody can have an accident i scraped through my time without much hassle just lucky i guess,but as the saying goes there’s always one waiting to happen just round the corner, i wonder if the trick is not to turn corners, if that’s the case and there was no corners where would our Indian cousins build or open their shops.
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Yes but be fair, that chap with the red flag, did not let you go very fast, then when he was redunant, 20mph was not fast, but when you could go 30mph you must have got excited, but you must have jumped over the moon , when you had Gardeners
hiya,
Those flagmen was OK unless they got a good drink then you had to do twice the miles if he got a stagger on, i think the knotted rope would have been a useful tool in the days of yore.
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Hi Harry,
I think some of the youth of these days,could do with the knotted rope,give em a bit of discipline,bring back the cat and the birch and the dreaded knotted rope.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Knotted rope tuition available to all machocists (spelling) at a small cost all proceeds to the poor children’s father’s beer money association.
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harry_gill:
hiya,
Knotted rope tuition available to all machocists (spelling) at a small cost all proceeds to the poor children’s father’s beer money association.
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Never mind the spelling H it would still hurt !! We were once parked in Bermondsey near to Suttons and they had a trailer mate roped down on a draw bar trailer and the driver was threatning him with rope and was going to set off back to St. Helens if he didn’t own up to his crime !! the mate was screaming like a stuck Pig .Happy Days !!
hiya,
Bewick, what was the TBs crime??, falling asleep was one of their offences and in the very early days when the lad’s job was to assist with the braking i always found them asleep when they was needed, hence the knotted rope to wake the lazy little " things" up i think half of them should have had a tennis ball sewn into the back of there jim-jams aided by the compulsory boxing gloves for the bedtime wearing of i always did blame J Arthur Rank for the TBs lethargy, i myself was never young you know.
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Harry, my mate Bill, always says when on the TV, politicians they should be shot, on the unruly youths and villians, hang the the barstewards, my wife said if you was in charge Bill, there would hardly anyone left 
, he replied, perhaps only half shoot and hang them, I must be getting a little soft in my old age! .
hiya,
Bill and me both Norm, if flogging was brought back for the unruly ones i think i could quickly diversify from being a trailer boy whipper to a purveyor of the birch, and you Norm being a marksman can take all the MPs out if i had a go at shooting them it would cost a fortune in ammunition i could’nt hit the proverbial barn door if i was leaning on it.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Bewick, what was the TBs crime??, falling asleep was one of their offences and in the very early days when the lad’s job was to assist with the braking i always found them asleep when they was needed, hence the knotted rope to wake the lazy little " things" up i think half of them should have had a tennis ball sewn into the back of there jim-jams aided by the compulsory boxing gloves for the bedtime wearing of i always did blame J Arthur Rank for the TBs lethargy, i myself was never young you know.
thanks harry long retired.
Hiya H I dunno what the lad had done but whatever it was --in between the ■■■■■■ and blinding he was assured he had being born out of wedlock !! Regarding sleeping I can now own up have taken at least 6months to have seen every mile of the M1 between Crick & Boreham Wood !! No comment on the other things as the number of hours we worked didn’t allow much liesure time !!! Regards Bewick
Harry, we would run out of ammo, if as bill said shoot the ones who say one thing, and do another, there is not many honest politicion, or ones that do it to make a difference to the world, they are in it for the money, and not just for them, but all of the family. Not one stands up for their ideals, they just follow the party lines like sheep, and coin in the cash.
Hi Norman Harry & Co,
Get the earplugs ready,because we have a general election to come before next June,or get the remote ready to switch the telly off,because as usual they will all be promising to put things right,make us all better off and such. Bring back the rotten eggs I say,oh dear I could get belted by two jags for that.
Cheers Dave.