hiya,
Yes Norm i think whatever falls off now does’nt matter and i’m not going to bother picking it up, because if i bent over to pick it up my eyes would probably drop out and then i would’nt be able to count my coppers, this old age thingy is’nt all it’s cracked up to be.
thanks harry long retired.
So are you telling me, you would not pass your Red & rust medical, if you was called upon to re- join if they start up again. 
hiya,
Norm, if i was fit enough to pass the HGV medical i’d be over the moon, but i certainly would’nt want the hassle of driving with limiters and tachographs and greed for gold gaffers, but if the BRS cracked away again i’d be first in the queue, no doubt to be knocked over in the rush by your goodself.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry-gill and Norman Ingram
Use a telephone it would be much better for you both , and all the other readers
Roger Haywood
hiya,
We do that as well Roger, but this mode of conversing costs nowt, and people don’t need to read it if they don’t want to, help Norm wer’e being got at.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry
Its a wind up mate relax be cool chill out take your zimmer for a spin put norm on a lead take him for a walk ,sit on a park bench eat your sarni ,smoke your pipe and think of all the good time u had behind the wheel,
Roger
hiya,
Well Roger, no zimmer comes under shopping trolley on the driving licence and i’m not licenced for those also no pipe but used to give the old Woodbines a bit of stick hence being lumbered with the “C” thingy and old Norm can’t be lead he’s a leader “so he says” it would most likely be me with the string round the neck i always was easily led, and as for sitting on the park bench the “farmer giles” prevents that, but remembering the good times behind the wheel is easy and only cover the red and rust period, the rest was rubbish with few exceptions, that only leaves the sandwiches, but i’m more of a pie and a pint man, just can’t get away from rubbish grub i used to get lumbered with at the roadside establishments we’ve all had to suffer.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello Harry, Bill has had his op and doing ok, just nipped home, got to go back soon. Put some garlick around your laptop, it is suppose to keep undesirables away , sorry Roger, but if you are as old as Rita Hayworth, you must be ruddy old and in a three wheel bathchair, so you watch out for poor old harry, and the only lead I know, is the lead in my pencil, 
, you can’t keep a good man down. bye folks catch you later.
hiya,
Norm hope everything goes well with Bill, looking like being a busy time for you, no garlic left Norm used it up in the cooking today, got some onions are they any good they look a bit similar, a blind man on a flying horse won’t spot the difference, anyway mate get yourself back on duty and tell Bill i’m asking after him and to get well soon.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry back in the land of the living, I hope you have been keeping in a reasonable condition. Christmas joke= Three men die on christmas eve, and go to heaven, at the pearly gates, St. Peter said if you three men have a symbal of christmas in your pockets, you can enter the kingdom of heaven, the first man took out a lighter and lit it, and said it is a candle, a symbal of christmas, he was told you can enter. Second man pulled out a bunch of keys and shook them, and replied a bell, you can enter. Third man was trying to find something in his pockets, and finally pulled out a pair of ■■■■ womens pants, St Peter raised his eyebrows, what do they symbal, ho they are carol’s ?. Hope you like it harry ha ha ha.
hiya,
nice to have you back Norm, i like that one in the words of Frank Carson “it’s a cracker” the only trouble is I can never remember a joke even five minutes after i’ve heard it, had a bit of a rough time last week got a stomach bug and it laid me low for a day or two but am back to normal again although not contemplating running a marathon, before christmas anyway.
thanks harry long retired
Glad of that Harry, a lot of it about, next door pat, she a sickness and the trots, at first the husband fred thought it was swine flu, which I have to have my injection on thursday week. Thanks for that private information, I will tell Bill tomorrow, he was a bit miffed the hospital never told him.
Hi Boys
Norm, I’ve just seen the news from yesterday and was shocked to see one of your Nottingham buses under a bridge in Leicestershire. Did the driver not know that only open top buses should be used out side Nottingham. Maybe you buspass lads could be employed as bridge spotters 
We have a similer problem in our area, our buses do not have any reverse gears,if you meet one on a narrow road you have no chance of getting them to go back 
Regards Keith.
dessert driver:
Hi Boys
Norm, I’ve just seen the news from yesterday and was shocked to see one of your Nottingham buses under a bridge in Leicestershire. Did the driver not know that only open top buses should be used out side Nottingham. Maybe you buspass lads could be employed as bridge spottersRegards Keith.
Hi Keith,
Saw that crash on the news,would think that blokes in deep smelly stuff,driving without due care springs to mind,could have been a lot worse. I can’t see any excuse for that one,he must have known he had a double decker by the handling of the thing. I know that you can’t judge someone from a tele pic, but I wouldn’t like to be in his shoes.
Cheers Dave.
Hi boys
Dave early on in the year I had to take a cherry picker to a rail bridge in Glostershire and wait while the engineer did his damage report after a lorry had hit it.When he had finnished he told me that if the driver had have got a good lawyer he would have got away with it.The bridge had the height marked in a red triange which is a warning and should have been in a red circle which is a prohibitive.He said it’s not my job to tell the insurance company but when it’s repaired the sign would be changed.
Regards Keith.
Hi Keith,
You have travelled the A44, nearly every year a load of bales hit the railway bridge at Crossgates,apparently each time,the line has to be shut,then the bridge inspected at a cost of £40,000,I suppose they have to that as a precaution. Last year a Scania 3 series toook two layers of big bales right off,and had cleared the bridge before he stopped,I came on the scene just after,he was lucky nobody in a car was behind him,when I came back by later there were coppers everywhere,the council were there,also a farmer loading the bales and loose stuff onto trailers,it was a right fiasco.
Cheers Dave.
Hi boys
Dave there has been one or two around here just lately involving plant trucks. You no doute heard of one of Wilds of Dorrington hitting that bridge in Shrewsbury, just a couple of miles from base.The problem is it gets us all a bad name,and makes the law look harder.
Regards Keith.
hiya,
When a very young driver in the late 1950s had delivered in Newcastle and left the site by a different route to the one i’d gone in i was following directions and was in the vicinity of the central station i’d seen the sign for the low bridge and boy was it low and luckily i was empty and only driving a little Bedford S type but i did push the headboard back and buckled it a bit, i just unbolted it and left it in a layby and no’one ever noticed it was missing, always a bit more careful after that though.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Keith,
Yes seen Wildes about,they hire a lot of tracters out in the Leominster area on spuds and straw. I can see a bit of excuse for a plant haulier,as your shifting different height loads all the time,although its only a minority who hit bridges. Did see that about the one in Shrewsbury,I look at the Shropshire news website everyday. I had better stop knocking the bus drivers,before I start a war.
Cheers Dave.
The trouble is they cannot get the staff, Keith & Dave, you should know a lot of firms have got foreign drivers, on the telly a year ago, one firm went to Poland to recruit drivers, how are they going to know about bridges, most of them drive by Satnav.