Harry,
You are dead right I have been sweeping the stage at the Winter Gardens everynight for the last 6 months,trying to repay Dave’s tipper hire,and Chris’s flight from the I.O.M.,and this is all the thanks I get for telling Norman it was Barton’s on page 1. 
Regards Richard.
ps. He must be due another visit down here soon,my wife’s cousins the Rossi Brothers from Salerno Italy,will be looking out for him ! 
Well thats funny, for I checked when I was down there in feb, and they said they had never heard of me, or any agent??, you would not be trying to pull my leg 
besides that I am doing a tour of Ireland on the 20th to the 29th of April, I won’t be able to wave to Chris, because going by the ferry from Pembroke to Rosslare £178 return, it may be the last time I will be able to take my wife by car, who knows, I certainly don’t, it depends on how my feet and legs behave themselves.
hiya,
Yes but you had to wear a disguise Norm, they was looking for “the Sandman” you was dolled up like the Pink Panther.
thanks harry long retired.
Me dressed in pink never, well I did own a pink “La Coste” shirt, when in spain I had a red one of those shirts and red trousers, red socks and white shoes, John Travalta eat your heart out, it used to pull the women ha ha ha 
, but that was ages ago.
We will put booby traps along the route through Wales, Watch out between St Clears and Kilgetty thats ambush country Norm.
Cheers Dave.
Yep I know Dave, the prices they charge around that area is daylight robbery.
There is a good transport cafe at Llandowror about 2 miles past St Clears towards Pembroke Dock, which was pretty good,haven’t been by there for about 12 months,at least when you get down into Pembrokeshire it’s a lot warmer and usually nice weather.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Have a nice time “overseas” Norm, i always had a canny time over that way just wish i could enjoy the Guinness but the whiskey is always the same wherever you may wander,here’s a little tip leave the “SANDMAN” plate at home and get one made up to read “RENEGADE” place it in the widscreen and you’ll sail through Wales totally unscathed and you’ll most likely find find the natives of those unpronouncable places doffing their caps to you, just remember to have the Colleen pretending to take photographs, or better still take photographs and post them on here, but there again if she’s anything like me and my old lady she won’t have a clue how to work a camera, once had a go at taking pics with a new all singing all dancing camera/phone finished up with a dozen pictures of my own eyeball needless to say it’s in the drawer alongside another silly gadget i bought a sat/nav thingy i can’t work that either, last time i used that i finished up in a farmyard and had to back the car and caravan about a quarter of a mile to the main road, i should have been around in the steam era would have managed much better.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I do not know about the sandman plates, but on my blue 306 peugeot the plate ends with “TLC”, that sums me up to a “T”, tender loving care, so when I am over in Ireland, they are always smiling at me.
hiya,
Norm how do you remember reg No’s i could look at mine through the window and would have forgotten it before i got back to my chair.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Norm will have no trouble sailing through Wales,once he gets past Red Roses he’s into Pembrokeshire as you probably know,and Pembrokeshire is known as "a little bit of England beyond Wales ". Nice part of the country down there,much warmer than where I am
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Like I told him Dave, just get a number plate made up to read RENEGADE and he won’t even need to flash his passport and will be respected like royalty.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Thats one thing Ive never had is a passport. Passed my international cpc several years ago,but never been abroad,keep saying that I will go,but haven’t done it. If I don’t pull my finger out Inever will. Although I quite enjoy a week’s holiday in this Country. As for Norm I will have a word with Carwyn Jones leader of the Welsh Asembly and see if he can lay a civic reception on for Norm at the snack van on Carew bypass. 
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Carwyn Jones eh’ Dave, you must have as much influence as Dennis,it’s a long time since i’ve been anywhere near Pembroke used to get out that way many moons ago when delivering abnormal indivisable stuff “mainly wide” to Haverfordwest a refinery job i think,but when i did stay overnight at Pembroke Dock I would have been on for the BRS remember parking in the railway yard and there was good digs in a pub close by, and as you say Dave a nice spot, similar climate to the Devon Riviera which when you think about it is’nt far away as the crow flies.
thanks harry long retired.
Quite right about that Harry,very much like Devon and Cornwall in Pembrokeshire,on the same air stream.I like going down that area it’s not that far from here,just a couple of hours,was down there a couple of months ago when we got the Mansel Davies pics,will have to go again and get some pics of the Irish lorries coming off the ferry,some smart moters and they don’t hang about. I think Dennis would have more influence in the House of Lords,me only humble ex driver.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Norman,forget Rosslare - Fishguard coming back,drive up to Dublin or Belfast and get the IOM Steam Packet seacat to Douglas,I’ll buy you and the wife a drink,stay in a civilised place for a few nights (we could maybe go over to do a bit of pillaging in Whitehaven one night) and then go back via Liverpool or Heysham to Northants,tha can’t take it with you as they say - simples tskk
At least you won’t get waylaid 
.I stayed in some digs at Pembroke Dock years ago after tipping at -----------err was it Texaco? Can’t remember,might have been Esso or was that at Milford Haven
Perhaps I tipped at t’wrong place.
hiya,
In digs in Pembroke eh’ Chris, used the same pub as usual cracking digs and only a few bob costlier than transport digs and a single room as well the pub was only a ■■■■ stride away from the railway yard where we was allowed to park and bunker being BRS in those days, done a bit of googling today can’t find the goods yard or the pub but it must be nearly forty years ago since i was getting so far west though, but was getting as far as Swansea right up to chucking journey work the furthest west i get these days is the corner shop for my paper, am busy physching myself up for my trip to the BRS show in july but have booked my bed for a couple of nights so i can do things at my own pace and a gentle run back home on the Monday.
thanks harry long retired.
Dave the Renegade:
Hi Harry,
Thats one thing Ive never had is a passport. Passed my international cpc several years ago,but never been abroad,keep saying that I will go,but haven’t done it. If I don’t pull my finger out Inever will. Although I quite enjoy a week’s holiday in this Country. As for Norm I will have a word with Carwyn Jones leader of the Welsh Asembly and see if he can lay a civic reception on for Norm at the snack van on Carew bypass.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
You’ve surpried me there Dave, a man of the world and all that, you’ll just have to hope i’m doing passport control if ever you decide to pass through County Durham, if i’m not give me a bell and i’ll pull a few strings and i usually lace my guests tea with a drop of scotch, now that alone should be worth getting a passport for, there are’nt many places in the uk that i have’nt been to but i still enjoy a good old Brit holiday at the coast or inland, i like the lakes but i don’t think i’ve ever been there and it has’nt rained, love the north of Scotland around Fort William is good and not forgetting good old Welsh Wales Boyo you have some fantastic holiday spots.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
Hi Harry,
Thats one thing Ive never had is a passport. Passed my international cpc several years ago,but never been abroad,keep saying that I will go,but haven’t done it. If I don’t pull my finger out Inever will. Although I quite enjoy a week’s holiday in this Country. As for Norm I will have a word with Carwyn Jones leader of the Welsh Asembly and see if he can lay a civic reception on for Norm at the snack van on Carew bypass.
Cheers Dave.hiya,
You’ve surpried me there Dave, a man of the world and all that, you’ll just have to hope i’m doing passport control if ever you decide to pass through County Durham, if i’m not give me a bell and i’ll pull a few strings and i usually lace my guests tea with a drop of scotch, now that alone should be worth getting a passport for, there are’nt many places in the uk that i have’nt been to but i still enjoy a good old Brit holiday at the coast or inland, i like the lakes but i don’t think i’ve ever been there and it has’nt rained, love the north of Scotland around Fort William is good and not forgetting good old Welsh Wales Boyo you have some fantastic holiday spots.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Never been around your area,will give it a go some time,if I keep breathing. Highest up the eastern side of the UK Ive been is Whitby,been past Fort William had a week on the Isle Of Skye in 2003,it was great. Will have another go at Scotland,been to the Lake District several times.Having a week in Sussex in july and a week later in august near Looe in Cornwall.Keep thinking about going to Ireland or the continent and taking my van,but haven’t done much about it,will have to make an effort and go in the next couple of years before I’m 65.
Cheers Dave.
Chris I might take my old gal to the IOM, what does it cost on the ferry, but that will be later this year, I have been many times, but my wife has not, but I always liked the place. Poor old Dave 65 and never been to Durham, that is almost like going abroad, they speak a foreign language up there, but you have missed a lot by not having a passport, but Dave there is quite a few people who have never left the top of their street. My wife apart from comming to Northampton when she was 16, she had never seen other places in Ireland and never been abroad until I took her, my children have the travel bug like me, but have a long way to catch up with me. 