Dave the Renegade:
Can you spot him on this side Harry,not into nautical terms myself,only the naughty ones.
Cheers Dave.
I was on the port side,we’d just fired a missile into Anglesey to wake 'em up and I was the observer.
Only thing I heard about the Navy was “Rum,Bum and Baccy”,whatever turns you on I suppose…
Chris Webb:
Dave the Renegade:
Can you spot him on this side Harry,not into nautical terms myself,only the naughty ones.
Cheers Dave.I was on the port side,we’d just fired a missile into Anglesey to wake 'em up and I was the observer.
Only thing I heard about the Navy was “Rum,Bum and Baccy”,whatever turns you on I suppose…
hiya,
Yes Chris your lot and my lot had to make do with wine women and song tough was’nt it and old Norm being of the khaki fraternity as well would have led us astray had we all soldiered, airforced at the same time.
thanks harry long retired.
rigsby:
we spend our holidays near kinlochbervie dave , a big fishing port . when i see the number of memorials to lost crews they have my respect and admiration . also makes me glad i was a lorry driver & not a sailor cheers , dave
I have a print off Alan Spillett’s with a Kinlochverbie reefer,a M A N on it Dave.As you say a lot of tragedies,but for most of the coastal people up there it’s been a way of life for generations.I expect most of them have lost family or friends at sea.
Cheers Dave.
No Dave not me, I know Ships, boats are what you row! 
For my brother was in the navy, I was in the army, the R.E.M.E., but as Harry was saying, the blunt end is the stern, and if you put your backside towards the stern, then point to the left, that is the Port side, the right hand is the Starboard, and straight ahead is the bow. I could never be a sailor, for I could swim. 
Norman Ingram:
No Dave not me, I know Ships, boats are what you row!
Hi Norm,
I knew the stern and the bow of a ship,but as for the rest I din’t know,always like watching them,but as for the technical part,never really bothered to find out.Have been known to ask what marine engine is in a fishing boat,when I last asked in Looe,the bloke said it was daewoo,it sounded good.
Cheers Dave.
Hello Dave, you might have heard or seen me write about one of my old middle east buddy from BRS Overland Keith Shirley, he was ten years younger than me, but in his late fifties discovered he had got M/S, well it seems it is stopping him keeping in contact, for I think his hand control is not what it used to be, he has even had to change his phone. He don’t use his laptop like he use to, I just thought I do not know if he knows you can use voice control on it, he was on long before me, and told me, I would lose my rag with it, and throw it out of the window. But I always seem to work my way through the problems I have. 
I have never been a person who discards his friends when they are not as fit as I am. Dave you your self know how people treat you different when you have something wrong with you! Or they advoid seeing you, just because they cannot deal with the situation.
Hi dave
i got out of the driving in 2004 to go and play on these offshore construction ships, i was going to kidnap harry at the drivers bash in newcastle at xmas, i am sure he would make a good skipper.
regards
mark
Mark ,in those dark glasses, you look like the heavy mob from the Mafia, I hope you have plenty of money, for it will take at least three bottles of single malt before you will be able to Shanghi our Harry
marcus 22:
Hi dave
i got out of the driving in 2004 to go and play on these offshore construction ships, i was going to kidnap harry at the drivers bash in newcastle at xmas, i am sure he would make a good skipper.regards
mark
hello norman,
we all had a good drink that day, i will have to take a hank of rope to the next one at easter if i am home and take him by surprise.
regards
mark
Mark, you will have to answer to Mrs Gill, if you take him out of her reach, specially if it is winter and he is needed fore snow duty, he is her life line to take care of the very old. So take care,if not you are a braver man than me Gunga Din!
hello norman
i had better kidnap one of the others then, just thought harry would have made a good skipper and would of liked 5 weeks in the sun, i am due back to africa mid febuary, then we are off to panama to work in sept.
regards
mark
Wise choice Mark,if you have your laptop with you, keep in touch, been to Kenya & north Africa myself, but now getting a bit old in the tooth for travelling too far, even getting out of my town I think twice before booking anything.
we are working down in west africa norman, the posh bit angola and the congo, plenty computers on board norman its kinda poosh inside the ship, stiil miss the crack with you lot and enjoyed my time doing the continent but not as far as you guys went, greece was the furthest for me. and i dont miss the traffic jams, we are lucky to see a seagull or another ship unless we go into port.
mark
Perhaps you are lucky , the other side you have the pirates! I have part blamed you Mark on my Clubs, Dances, and Pubs thread, for Harry’s lack of times on the thread, among two others nothing like a good stir?
Norman Ingram:
Perhaps you are lucky , the other side you have the pirates! I have part blamed you Mark on my Clubs, Dances, and Pubs thread, for Harry’s lack of times on the thread,
hiya,
Still on holiday Norm this painting and decorating wears a fellow out i’m so knackered i can barely lift a glass of Scotch so i’m drinking a balanced way that’s one in each hand keeps you on an even keel, and no i’m not available for skippering anything at the moment my masters ticket has expired so if you want me you’ll have to press gang me and that would be a piece of cake i’m too worn out to fight you off, i’m going to bed, goodnight.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello norman,
did you see the photo of me and harry at the drivers drink at xmas, its on old north east haulage companys page 18 and its the first photo, their is harry me and colin carhill, i am sure he had his hand in my pocket when i was distracted.
mark
Mark, I would not be surprised, he is a canny chap, I did see the photo’s, I have been chatting to Harry for a few years, I met him for the first time at the BRS show last July, I liked him before, but the meeting him, it just sealed the friendship. Often I will video call him or him me on Skype and it is free, and we just chat, and that is important to two old timers!
Mark, if you was anything like a mate, you would rush around Harry’s to give a hand with his decorating, it must be hard to do, with two whisky glasses in his hands. The mind boggles to imaging what he is using to hold the paint brush! Besides you live close to him, and you can get Kevin to help you. 
Norman Ingram:
Mark, if you was anything like a mate, you would rush around Harry’s to give a hand with his decorating, it must be hard to do, with two whisky glasses in his hands. The mind boggles to imaging what he is using to hold the paint brush! Besides you live close to him, and you can get Kevin to help you.
hiya,
All done and dusted Norm you can’t keep a good man down, i don’t hang about get on with the job in fact i’ve had a couple of glasses of Glenmorangie in there to celebrate this very evening just got to get the plumbing bag from the shed tomorrow and do a bit of tap washering, tell you what i don’t know how i ever found time to go to work this retirement is’nt all it’s cracked up to be you get no holidays and have no gaffer other than the missus to phone in “a sickie” and i think she’s ex-directory.
thanks harry long retired.
My heart go’s out to the down trodden old ex drivers who are trapped at home like you Harry, who have to do all the jobs around the house, that tradesmen get well paid to do. 
You will have to throw your tools in the bin, oh sorry it is full up with your bottles 
