Norman Ingram:
Dave I try to do as same as you, but my wife always tries to make me feel guilty, by saying the washing machine won’t start, but she means you were a plumber get them pipes unfrozen, or are you going to give your daughter a lift, for she cannot drive with a bad back. poor old me with hardly any feeling in my feet. Also I dare not go out for I might slip and damage my new knee I had put in, this means you cannot sit in the warm, go out and clear the drive and pathes. they are crafty this women.
Mine to be fair Norm,is very protective towards me.I flatly refused to go to hospital,it took her and the doctor to persuade me.I was glad to be there later in the day.so I did apologise to both of them.As for clearing snow,we don’t bother that much,only the essential bits,the dog will soom make some path’s around here.Tracy won’t drive on snow,while I like a challenge,ought to have more sense at my age,but my old man taught me how to drive on snow when I was young and fair play he could drive anywhere,probably being a driver in WW2 honed his skills.So if you want some more snow,we have plenty of tippers kicking their heels to bring you some .
Cheers Dave.
Hi boys
Norm, thats good going,well done. Did you marry a younger woman so she would look after you when you got old I did. my missis is 13 years younger than me, thats whats called planning for your old age We’ve been married 21years this August, and they said it would never last.
hiya,
Well if i’d stuck it out with my first "old lady"i would have been a little over 53 years now, but i did’nt so have’nt got much too crow about, my second go only lasted about a month, and although my current "love and i have been together about 37 years we’ve only been hitched about 14 years, not much of a reference is it??.
thanks harry long retired.
dessert driver:
Hi boys
Third time lucky Harry,BTW living over the brush,shame on you
Regards Keith
hiya,
Yep Keith o’er the brush, and under the thumb and i bet the last bit of my statement applies to more than just me.
By the way mate you and your family have a nice Christmas and Prosperous New Year.
thanks harry long retired.
Where are all the characters off this thread hiding .You fella’s must be getting fed up with all this yuletide nonsense by now.But if there’s none of you on here I will have to go and finish my book by Alan Sugar.
Cheers Dave.
Hello Dave I know there is nothing much on TV apart from England cricket team thrashing the Aussies, they are bad losers, as soon as we got them out for 98, the 90,000 crowd started to dis- appear ,my heart bleeds for them after all them years of success, they cannot support their national team. . As for us, we was at my daughters for dinner, today we was at the club playing snooker, we was the only two in there, until 11.30 when four more came in, at least when I was out for 3hours you do not get stir crazy, tomorrow I shall sneak off to a game of bowls, One of my old M/E buddies Keith Shirley phoned up, my wife said he has not been too good, he can hardly talk long, I am not surprised, he has M/S, the poor sod is only just gone 60, he can’t do much for himself. It makes me think my problems are nothing to compare with his! Last time I spoke to Harry, he had three & half bottles to keep him busy. Hope you had a nice Christmas Dave, all the best Norman
hiya,
Still in the land of the living Norm and Dave been watching a DVD it’s a North East thing “Sunday for Sammy” all the Geordie talent do a charity show bi-annualy and it’s put onto a DVD with most of the money going to charity this is about the sixth one they’ve done and i’ve got them all , when i first made the scene in this neck of the woods i needed my wife “then girlfriend” to translate for me but after nearly forty years i think i’ve got it cracked, going to drop into the North East “truckers”(i hate that term|) do at the labour club in Newcastle tomorrow afternoon put a few faces to the names i see and talk to on here, I won’t be able to stay very long have been out of sorts with what i think was darned near flu, legs aching, sore throat and a horrible cough if I had’nt had the flu injection i’d have said it was the flu i felt rotten but a bit brighter now, the bus takes me right to the front door of the venue so not very far to walk, i’ve hated being housebound so tomorrows little jaunt will get me out of the house for an hour or two and the “old lady” won’t be able to watch what i’m drinking, peace brother, just hope the snow stays out of the way so’s i won’t have to dig my chauffers hat out of the wardrobe, hope you guys have had a nice Christmas and Santa was good to you, all the best.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Norm & Harry,
Good to see you are having a reasonable christmas,sorry to hear you haven’t been 100% Harry.There are a lot of viruses going around,they say cold weather kills the germs.I say it kills the people.Hopefully it will warm up a bit,although I see they are having blizzards in America on the eastern side,so look out here in a couple of weeks.On that cheerful note I will catch you later.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Been snowing quite heavily here this morning Dave but has stopped at the moment just hope it stays away until i get back from Newcastle, could do without having to revert to my driving duties, i’ve been looking forward to an hour or two “in the Toon”, ah well will just have to wait and see.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Raining and thawing here,not that its made much of an impression on the snow yet.I think we need it a bit warmer to do that.Hope you manage to get to Newcastle ok.Hoping to get my sprinter out of here tomorrow,my snow van is still at the paint shop,so that stopped me going out in the snow,which was a good thing,as I’m fairly clear of the lergy I had now.
Cheers Dave.
Hello Dave & Harry, I was not on yesterday, for I got a head cold, my eye’s & nose was running like a tap, but I soldiered on like a true trooper. Dave just spoke to Harry on Skype, he video called me, he looked so content on his setee, it would take a bulldozer to shift him . Glad to hear you are on the mend. Norman
Hi Norm,
I see Harry looking with a glint in his eye at the Newcastle do,which I expect you have also seen on the thread.Sorry to hear you have the lergy,not nice,but it seems every other person has got colds flu or even swine flu which they are talking about again.I don’t want anything else this winter if I can help it.Been to Leominster in my van this afternoon,first time behind the wheel for five and a half weeks.I stayed in the van.Tracy went into Morrisons,every man woman and child must have been there,talk about recession,no one seemed bothered about it there,stocking up for new year jollies I suppose.I wouldn’t mind an hours takings from one of these big supermarkets.I bet it comes to a few grand.Never mind its the lottery tonight .
Cheers Dave.
Dave I cannot think of a better person to win the lottery, unless I win it! . That harry gets his photo taken everywhere he attends, and he his no Rock Hudson or even a Cary Grant .But he looked healthy enough so Dave if you catch a cold, swig half a bottle of scotch like Harry did, it kill 99 o/o of germs , my wife made me two Irish coffee’s and my cold seems more on the wane.
Norm,as I’ve probably said before.I can honestly say I have never tasted whiskey or many other spirits in my life.I think it stems back to when I was a young lad,used to think I’m not paying a couple of bob or whatever it was for a ■■■■■■■ bit in the bottom of a glass.I thought a pint was better value,not that I drank many of those,most of my money was spent on vehicles which I looked after and kept working my way up to a new one.The best thing I ever bought was my bungalow,brand new in 1975,seemed a big step at the time,but it was money well spent.Still like a few cans or bottles of beer at home.I will leave the scotch to you and Harry .
Cheers Dave.
Dave you mean leave for Harry, I do not touch the stuff, it is only when the wife is fed up with me coughing, spluttering, and sneezing all over the place, she makes me a Irish coffee, for she knows I do not like whisky, not even a teaspoonful. long ago I might have a Bicardi & coke or a pint or two, but never been a big drinker, or though in my hey day I could shift a few pints of milk then again I have drank gallons of tea, until a couple of years, I always had a pint mug of tea, but cut it down to half becaue I am going to the toilet too much. that is the first sign you are getting old, too embarrised to tell you what the second sign is.
.You fella’s must be getting fed up with all this yuletide nonsense by now.But if there’s none of you on here I will have to go and finish my book by Alan Sugar.
