Dave the Renegade:
I had four years on building sites as a teenager.Laboured on plasterers for two and a half years on piecework,earned good money,also laboured on brickies now and again and had spells on the pick & shovel.Next best job to lorry driving for me,as you weren’t in the same place for too long and I worked with some good blokes and had a lot of laughs.
Cheers Dave.
Dave you forget you are just a youngster, 
to us old crocks. 
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
I had four years on building sites as a teenager.Laboured on plasterers for two and a half years on piecework,earned good money,also laboured on brickies now and again and had spells on the pick & shovel.Next best job to lorry driving for me,as you weren’t in the same place for too long and I worked with some good blokes and had a lot of laughs.
Cheers Dave.Dave you forget you are just a youngster,
I’m officially an OAP now Norm,but still do a bit of part-time TM work.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
I had four years on building sites as a teenager.Laboured on plasterers for two and a half years on piecework,earned good money,also laboured on brickies now and again and had spells on the pick & shovel.Next best job to lorry driving for me,as you weren’t in the same place for too long and I worked with some good blokes and had a lot of laughs.
Cheers Dave.Dave you forget you are just a youngster,
I’m officially an OAP now Norm,but still do a bit of part-time TM work.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave now that your’e an official coffin-dodger and a hard-up pensioner
I would like to welcome you to the world of wondering where the next
penny will be coming from unless your’e as well off as our Norm you’ll
find “times is hard” but enjoy your retirement, I do.
thanks harry, long retired.
Us old uns are living too long, we are a burden on the state. “Call Me Dave” and his mate Gideon Osborne have a department in Whitehall thinking up ways how to screw the old folk. Well sod em, Me and the missis are going to be around for quite a while yet.
So much ale and malt…so little time. 
grumpy old man:
Us old uns are living too long, we are a burden on the state. “Call Me Dave” and his mate Gideon Osborne have a department in Whitehall thinking up ways how to screw the old folk. Well sod em, Me and the missis are going to be around for quite a while yet.
So much ale and malt…so little time.
hiya,
Yes G O M got us firmly by the goolies haven’t they, but I’m going to strike
back when they come scroungeing votes prior to the next election I’ll ask if
I vote for them will they alter the way the pension system is operated, the
pension (a fat one) to be paid from leaving school and kept in place until a
person reaches age 75,then stop the pension find the person a job and work
the ex-pensioner to death.
thanks harry, long retired.
I reckon that pensioners have it good, my neighbour was a truck driver and has a new car every three years plus they are always away on cruises (had one already since Christmas) so it cant ALL be bad! He reckons that he has never been so well off, three company pensions plus his wifes two pensions keep them well fettled. Of course selling his Aunts house for £300,000 might have helped a little… 
Roll on 65! 
Pete.
windrush:
I reckon that pensioners have it good, my neighbour was a truck driver and has a new car every three years plus they are always away on cruises (had one already since Christmas) so it cant ALL be bad!Pete.
hiya,
I nearly sold our house Pete but the council found out and stopped me
going through with it, there’s always somebody ready to spoil things
thanks harry, long retired.
Cold weather payments must be due with all this cold weateher we are having.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Cold weather payments must be due with all this cold weateher we are having.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Tell you what Dave the next cold weather payment I receive will
certainly be my first, never had one yet, I think that they “adjust”
the weather to make sure they don’t have to pay out.
thanks harry, long retired.
I think you have to be receiving “pension credits” to qualify. We’ve never had one, it seems we are not poor enough. 
I think you are right about that Brian.That rules me out.Will have to get Tracy to start digging in the garden to sink a mine shaft.Should be some coal if she digs deep enough.
Cheers Dave.
grumpy old man:
I think you have to be receiving “pension credits” to qualify. We’ve never had one, it seems we are not poor enough.
hiya,
Never gave the cold weather thingy a moments thought,
I’ve never had owt’ for nowt’, too late to bother now.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
grumpy old man:
I think you have to be receiving “pension credits” to qualify. We’ve never had one, it seems we are not poor enough.hiya,
Never gave the cold weather thingy a moments thought,
I’ve never had owt’ for nowt’, too late to bother now.
thanks harry, long retired.
Warmer here today than yesterday,getting ready for the foot of snow that Wales is on red alert for. Don’t know why they are panicking as we had three foot in 1982.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Hope you are all well stocked up with food in case of getting snowed in,
but if your food supplies became depleted apart from a packet of Tesco
burgers would you eat? or would you not eat? that is the equestrian.
thanks harry, long retired.
We get our burgers from a local butchers shop Harry,could be anything in them.I ain’t squeamish,if we had some tesco burgers here I wouldn’t be slinging them.I expect we have had horse-meat before and never known the difference.
As for the snow,our village shop closed in the 1990’s,so we have always kept the freezer and the food cupboards full.It wouldn’t harm me to eat a bit less and lose some weight.
Cheers Dave.
Well Dave during the last war days when stuff was on the ration, There was a shop in Percy Street in Newcastle Billy Onions ran it selling dog food & he sold horse flesh & there was allways a crowd of customers there on a Sat morning because there didnt seem to be any shortage of Horse Meat, So was it for their dogs ■■?, Perhaps not, only the scraps Eh, Regards Larry.
I do not frequent the foreign takeaways or restaurants Larry,but there was a place in Hereford fined for selling cats instead of chicken about thirty years ago.I expect some of our places are no better.
Best thing is not to worry about it and just eat the grub.I worked with some right dirty gits on building sites who were always coughing and spitting while eating there sandwiches or cutting chunks of bread and meat up with a pocket knife which they had used to clean a blocked drain with earlier in the day,then just wiped it clean on their sleeve.You just got used to it,as with most things and ignored it.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
I do not frequent the foreign takeaways or restaurants Larry,but there was a place in Hereford fined for selling cats instead of chicken about thirty years ago.I expect some of our places are no better.
Best thing is not to worry about it and just eat the grub.I worked with some right dirty gits on building sites who were always coughing and spitting while eating there sandwiches or cutting chunks of bread and meat up with a pocket knife which they had used to clean a blocked drain with earlier in the day,then just wiped it clean on their sleeve.You just got used to it,as with most things and ignored it.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave, so long as it’s well cooked I eat it takeaway or whatever down it
goes,although the counter staff at Tesco’s restaurant weren’t amused
when they asked me if I’d like anything on my burger and I told them
to place me five pounds each way, no sense of humour eh’.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Hope you are all well stocked up with food in case of getting snowed in,
but if your food supplies became depleted apart from a packet of Tesco
burgers would you eat? or would you not eat? that is the equestrian.
thanks harry, long retired.
Film WarHorse," you’ve seen the film, now try the burger"
i don’t have takeaways , especially from our asian cousins . back in the 90s i was delivering to an asian warehouse in dewsbury when van rolled in from their head office in s.shields . it was a boiling hot june day and the van had no chiller . they unloaded a pallet of" frozen" kebab meat , completely thawed and covered in flies , wafted the flies off and wheeled it into the freezer , never touched a kebab since . , cheers , dave