Dave the Renegade:
Hi Norm,
Sorry to hear you haven’t been to well on your trip. We had the Flu jab a couple of weeks back. I was ok,but Tracy had a cold after it,she has the jab because she is asthmatic.Can’t give you any advice about horses,never bothered with them.My dad was a betting man,always ticking horses in the paper in the racing pages and doing doubles and accumulators etc.My gambling extends to the lottery which is a waste of time and money,but it is a double rollover next wednesay,so someone could be lucky,but I will settle for health more than wealth .
Cheers Dave.
Correct Dave…
Health not wealth
Nourishment not punisment
Chris & Dave,I just cannot get the lottery, 4 is my top to win. Horses I have the gift, picked four out for the Melbourne cup, had the 14/1 winner £5ew and the favorite third, just missed out on a forecast, still this blasted cold is hanging on, this will be the third week this Saturday, my wife has had it a week, still at my time of life,I should be greatful I am still a live! But I am not, for I am a misable bar steward when I keep feeling under the weather, bah humbug.
hiya,
Chris if you ever need assistance counting money Norm and me are available 24/7 my daughter is an accountant for a large company who are in the land reclamation industry and her skills will have rubbed off, now back to aircraft carriers when the skipper of a United States one arrived at a foreign port on a courtesy visit could’nt get onto the quay because of a tugboat strike so he got the aircraft on deck with the tails pointing out to sea cracked the motors up and blew the huge thing alongside the dock clever thinking eh and true.
thanks harry long retired.
Dave & harry I think Chris is kidding, for we would have had our e-mail by now instructing us what time of the year he has booked us up for the cruise, what timethe cars are picking us up, and that our travelling money is paid into our accounts, also our clothing list, so we can be well dressed when we eat at the captain’s table. For I know our Chris is no penny pincher when it comes to mates, and given the brass and being from Yorkshire he would have the touch of class, but you Harry from the otherside of the Pennines! will have to wear a clip on bow tie .
Norman Ingram:
Dave & harry I think Chris is kidding, for we would have had our e-mail by now instructing us what time of the year he has booked us up for the cruise, what timethe cars are picking us up, and that our travelling money is paid into our accounts, also our clothing list, so we can be well dressed when we eat at the captain’s table. For I know our Chris is no penny pincher when it comes to mates, and given the brass and being from Yorkshire he would have the touch of class, but you Harry from the otherside of the Pennines! will have to wear a clip on bow tie .
hiya,
Norman i’m so sure we are going this time so sure in fact i’m all packed you’ve seen my bag don’t take me long and our good friend Dessert Driver will have been told to wash the Scania off to get the luggage to the port of departure he can park it up until we get back, have you heard anything Keith??, have you got your case packed yet??, we all know how Yorkshire folk like to splash out even I O M based ones.
thanks harry long retired.
i think that chris webb knows more than he is letting on . it was on the news today that the police have arrested a load of folks for money laundering on IOM . do you think that aircraft carrier could be his getaway motor ? rigsby
rigsby:
i think that chris webb knows more than he is letting on . it was on the news today that the police have arrested a load of folks for money laundering on IOM . do you think that aircraft carrier could be his getaway motor ? rigsby
I wish I’d got some money to launder.Some more arrests to come,a pity the IOM Government closed the old Victoria Road jail,the money launderers wouldn’t have wanted to end up doing time in there
The new jail is up at Jurby,been open two years and is like a holiday camp so I’ve heard.
I f you got arrested on the USS JFK the aircraft carrier in the pic,they would probably keel haul you Chris,then put the leg irons on you and stow you in a hold.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
I f you got arrested on the USS JFK the aircraft carrier in the pic,they would probably keel haul you Chris,then put the leg irons on you and stow you in a hold.
Cheers Dave.
I’ve been there as well Dave - Stow in the hold,it’s in t’Cotswolds.
Dave the Renegade:
I f you got arrested on the USS JFK the aircraft carrier in the pic,they would probably keel haul you Chris,then put the leg irons on you and stow you in a hold.
Cheers Dave.
I’ve been there as well Dave - Stow in the hold,it’s in t’Cotswolds.
Sorry pal,shall I get me coat?
Been there several times myself Chris.I think the biggest vessel’s they get on the river windrush are the Ducks.
Cheers Dave.
i know how you feel chris , you must be on that magnificent pension we get off the government , like me & harry , do they let you use your bus pass on the steam packet ? i could do with living out there , the ******** take £7 a week off my state pension , you would think i would get a rebate for living in derbyshire ! cheers rigsby
rigsby:
i know how you feel chris , you must be on that magnificent pension we get off the government , like me & harry , do they let you use your bus pass on the steam packet ? i could do with living out there , the ******** take £7 a week off my state pension , you would think i would get a rebate for living in derbyshire ! cheers rigsby
No pal,no discount on the Racket -Manx or no Manx.Well,if you live in the Sheffield overspill area of Derbyshire like Hope Valley or even Dronfield you deserve a discount.Lived in that area a big piece of my life,born in Sheffield - a dee - dah,Froggatt as a kid,but it was always Sheffield where we went,not Chesterfield.
Aye,the magnificent pension,paid from the UK,and the Manx born OAPS are way above our rate bless 'em.Still can’t understand why I keep buying their beer,must be my generous Sheffield upbringing that comes out.
And t’beer is a lot dearer over here as well as all t’froth when it churns about on t’ferry,can’t win,but we still sup it.
Hi boys
Sorry missed your last posts I’ve been busy washing the Scani down as you said. Must say I’m a little peed off though, I spent weeks on stand by last year and nothing happened. I hope I wont be left waiting again this year, time is money you know. I’ve even used up all my polish on the motor ready for when Dave’s Tracey takes my photo. It’s no good asking Harry for any he never had a polish issue.I’ve got to go and pick up the daughter from work now knowing my look the call will come while I’m away and I’ll miss it again this year.
dessert driver:
Hi boys
Sorry missed your last posts I’ve been busy washing the Scani down as you said. Must say I’m a little peed off though, I spent weeks on stand by last year and nothing happened. I hope I wont be left waiting again this year, time is money you know. I’ve even used up all my polish on the motor ready for when Dave’s Tracey takes my photo. It’s no good asking Harry for any he never had a polish issue.I’ve got to go and pick up the daughter from work now knowing my look the call will come while I’m away and I’ll miss it again this year.
Regards Keith.
hiya,
Keith you are correct no polish; never used it never used water even they never performed any differently in my opinion but when in the forces we used a homemade product which we called GIMP it was a mixture of engine oil and petrol it did make them look shiny mind, and must have been good stuff you never came across a rusty army motor it was a bit dodgy lighting a ciggie when at the wheel though and did tend to stink when you got them warmed up, come to think of it polish might work out cheaper in this day and age, oh just leave it Keith we’ll all be in holiday mood and wearing sunglasses, just make sure the Hiab is working for lifting Chris’s suitcase it’ll be heavy with all the cruise money,keep o’er to the left mate.
thanks harry long retired.
Don’t worry lads,it’s all sorted.This is our ship - no not the little 'un,she just runs round the coast - the big one “Artemis”.She was over here in August and I had a look round her and left a deposit for the cruise.
Don’t bother with the Hiab Keith,I’ll use me card
Look lads I want to know, because if I take a turn for the worst, I may be buried at sea, a nd I have already paid for my plot of land, so Chris tell these muffin’s you have been pulling their legs, or several of them might kick the bucket with shock. If you have won, don’t be a berk like those who won 11 million and gave it away to good causes, unless you give it to " Old Red & Rust Drivers", Whisky tasting pensioners, Old age gambling retired drivers, just don’t waste it.
Norman Ingram:
Look lads I want to know, because if I take a turn for the worst, I may be buried at sea, a nd I have already paid for my plot of land, so Chris tell these muffin’s you have been pulling their legs, or several of them might kick the bucket with shock. If you have won, don’t be a berk like those who won 11 million and gave it away to good causes, unless you give it to " Old Red & Rust Drivers", Whisky tasting pensioners, Old age gambling retired drivers, just don’t waste it.
hiya,
Tried to donate my body for medical science, but no joy they could’nt accept it, they reckoned that my innards are so well preserved with the single malt it would cost too much money standing the students around until my liver passed away and caught up with the rest of my bits, so i’ve instructed my old lady to fold me in half like you would a jacknife before rigor mortis sets in and bung me in the wheelie bin.
thanks harry long retired.
Norman Ingram:
Look lads I want to know, because if I take a turn for the worst, I may be buried at sea, a nd I have already paid for my plot of land, so Chris tell these muffin’s you have been pulling their legs, or several of them might kick the bucket with shock. If you have won, don’t be a berk like those who won 11 million and gave it away to good causes, unless you give it to " Old Red & Rust Drivers", Whisky tasting pensioners, Old age gambling retired drivers, just don’t waste it.
hiya,
Tried to donate my body for medical science, but no joy they could’nt accept it, they reckoned that my innards are so well preserved with the single malt it would cost too much money standing the students around until my liver passed away and caught up with the rest of my bits, so i’ve instructed my old lady to fold me in half like you would a jacknife before rigor mortis sets in and bung me in the wheelie bin.
thanks harry long retired.
Well Harry,after I’m cremated our lass is going to put me in an egg timer and stand it on top of television just so she can watch me carry on working…
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you deserve a discount.Lived in that area a big piece of my life,born in Sheffield - a dee - dah,Froggatt as a kid,but it was always Sheffield where we went,not Chesterfield.
