harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Norman Ingram:
See that Dave, 
the women rule the roost, 
not a lot changes where ever you live. 
Even Larry is controlled by she who must be obeyed. 
Aye , But Im working on it, I get the blame for everything, But mind you I have to be very carefull otherwise my pocket money is stopped, Eh Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
It would be easier to argue with a nasty dog.They are very similar creatures,both can be coaxed into wagging their tails…So my Grandad told me.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I’d liked to have had a drink with your Grandad Dave I might have managed to steer
clear of females after having listened to his sound advice would have gladly bought
him a few pints for a bit of his common sense.
thanks harry, long retired.
I did listen Harry,that’s why I’ve never been married,just lived over the brush.
He drank rough cider or barley wine.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Norman Ingram:
See that Dave, the women rule the roost, not a lot changes where ever you live. Even Larry is controlled by she who must be obeyed.
Aye , But Im working on it, I get the blame for everything, But mind you I have to be very carefull otherwise my pocket money is stopped, Eh Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
It would be easier to argue with a nasty dog.They are very similar creatures,both can be coaxed into wagging their tails…So my Grandad told me.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I’d liked to have had a drink with your Grandad Dave I might have managed to steer
clear of females after having listened to his sound advice would have gladly bought
him a few pints for a bit of his common sense.
thanks harry, long retired.
I did listen Harry,that’s why I’ve never been married,just lived over the brush.
He drank rough cider or barley wine.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Once got a skinful of barley wine on a trip to Blackpool when I was a
young fellah’, I was so ill I’ve never touched it since, It’s lucky I went
by train they’d never have allowed me on the bus.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Norman Ingram:
See that Dave, the women rule the roost, not a lot changes where ever you live. Even Larry is controlled by she who must be obeyed.
Aye , But Im working on it, I get the blame for everything, But mind you I have to be very carefull otherwise my pocket money is stopped, Eh Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
It would be easier to argue with a nasty dog.They are very similar creatures,both can be coaxed into wagging their tails…So my Grandad told me.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I’d liked to have had a drink with your Grandad Dave I might have managed to steer
clear of females after having listened to his sound advice would have gladly bought
him a few pints for a bit of his common sense.
thanks harry, long retired.
I did listen Harry,that’s why I’ve never been married,just lived over the brush.
He drank rough cider or barley wine.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Once got a skinful of barley wine on a trip to Blackpool when I was a
young fellah’, I was so ill I’ve never touched it since, It’s lucky I went
by train they’d never have allowed me on the bus.
thanks harry, long retired.
I drank four cans of the stuff about 20 years ago Harry.I drank one and then drank the others thinking it would get better,but it still tasted sweet and horrible,so I drank a pint bottle of Guinness to get rid of the taste,but that didn’t work.I could taste the stuff for days.I will never sample barley wine again.
My Grandad on my Dads side only lived about a mile from here in the next village and always had 5 gallon barrel of cider in the house.If I called there when he had taken delivery of a fresh barrel,he would say to my aunt get the the boy a glass of cider to try.I would down it as fast as I could because it was always rough tasting stuff and he would then say get him another,which I declined. Didn’t mind certain cider,but some of the stuff back in the 1960’s made by small cider makers was serious stuff,no thanks.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Dave are you a man or mouse I used to be stationed in Taunton, Norton manor camp, we had cider on tap at 10p per pint, but I got burned when I was out and about on porlock hill, I had hired a bike from camp and with a mate from Manchester we went riding over the weekend and stopped in hostels, and we cut across from porlock and stopped at a cottage for a meal, I drank two or three of scrumpy and had to push the bike.
Don’t think I’m a mouse Norm and most people that know me know that.But cider is serious gut rotting stuff,and living in this area there are lots of firms still making it,including a small outfit about 2 miles from here.
In the days when my Grandad bought a barrel of cider ( he died in 1975 aged 94 ) there were a lot of cider makers in Herefordshire who delivered all around this area.He like a glass of cider and a piece of bread and cheese for his supper,but as I’ve said if me or my Dad called there we had to have a taste of this cider. My Dad was a serious beer drinker,but not cider.I didn’t mind a bottle of Westons cider which was a nice drink,but the stuff out of a barrel no thanks.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Once got a skinful of barley wine on a trip to Blackpool when I was a
young fellah’, I was so ill I’ve never touched it since, It’s lucky I went
by train they’d never have allowed me on the bus.
thanks harry, long retired.
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It’s been many a long year since I’ve touched Barley Wine, ever since the day many many bottles of the stuff came into my possession…FREE 
I used to deliver fuel oil to Whitbreads Brewery at Woodlesford (nr. Leeds) and one of their “drivers” managed to roll an artic over, full load of those Whitbread Gold Label Barley wine. Well, they recovered it to Woodlesford, many bottles smashed, but thousands of em still intact. All the lads were helping themselves so I says to the foreman, “What’s the crack her then”? “Oh, the whole lot has been written off, a lot of the gold foil seals round the bottles have been damaged…take what you want”. Well, I had an ERF and I filled the cab with as many as I could get in, in fact there was only just enough room left for me to sit.
I really was quite ill that weekend, it was strong stuff and I’ve never touched barley wine again since that weekend. 
It’s done it again, I think there must be a problem somewhere, I’ve posted a couple of items, just a blank page shows, nothing, go to another section, come back and as if by magic the post is showing.
grumpy old man:
It’s done it again, I think there must be a problem somewhere, I’ve posted a couple of items, just a blank page shows, nothing, go to another section, come back and as if by magic the post is showing.
Keep posting on here Brian.The technical blokes will sort the gremlins out.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I thought it was only me who was having trouble posting, I write the post
press submit and all I get is a blank page, what I do is press the “go back”
button go to top of the page that comes up “it shows what I’ve written” I
then click on “view your posts” and bingo the post is posted, and I hope I
can get someone to tell me an easier way of doing things.
thanks harry, long retired.
Im having a few problems too Harry, The system keeps changing, Every thing seems to come up as a search, Its a good job I know where the malts are, Otherwise I would think it was me, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Im having a few problems too Harry, The system keeps changing, Every thing seems to come up as a search, Its a good job I know where the malts are, Otherwise I would think it was me, Regards Larry.
I spoke to Rikki earlier when I was having problems login onto TNUK which was my own fault for forgetting my password.
He told me they have had major problems with the site, but they have now got a new server which in a few days will sort all the problems out.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Im having a few problems too Harry, The system keeps changing, Every thing seems to come up as a search, Its a good job I know where the malts are, Otherwise I would think it was me, Regards Larry.
I spoke to Rikki earlier when I was having problems login onto TNUK which was my own fault for forgetting my password.
He told me they have had major problems with the site, but they have now got a new server which in a few days will sort all the problems out.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Larry don’t be tempted to pour a wee dram into the computer believe me
it doesn’t work, pour it into yourself and kick the thing that usually works.
And Dave was wondering why you wasn’t posting quite so much, I really do
not know enough about computers and for me to go “back to school” is not
on, I’m stuck in the past a one finger typist who couldn’t absorb anything a
tutor tried to impart to me there’s an old saying in Lancashire from where
I originate it goes “you can’t put owt where there is nowt” and that is me
down to the ground, never spent much time in the classroom when I was a
young un’ and it shows, but having said that I’m an authority at wheeling a
barrow full of manure and hay making.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Im having a few problems too Harry, The system keeps changing, Every thing seems to come up as a search, Its a good job I know where the malts are, Otherwise I would think it was me, Regards Larry.
I spoke to Rikki earlier when I was having problems login onto TNUK which was my own fault for forgetting my password.
He told me they have had major problems with the site, but they have now got a new server which in a few days will sort all the problems out.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Larry don’t be tempted to pour a wee dram into the computer believe me
it doesn’t work, pour it into yourself and kick the thing that usually works.
And Dave was wondering why you wasn’t posting quite so much, I really do
not know enough about computers and for me to go “back to school” is not
on, I’m stuck in the past a one finger typist who couldn’t absorb anything a
tutor tried to impart to me there’s an old saying in Lancashire from where
I originate it goes “you can’t put owt where there is nowt” and that is me
down to the ground, never spent much time in the classroom when I was a
young un’ and it shows, but having said that I’m an authority at wheeling a
barrow full of manure and hay making.
thanks harry, long retired.
Did a lot haymaking and hauling for local farmers through the late 50’s through to the early 70’s Harry, also cleaned a lot of muck out of cow and pig sheds with a hand fork. hard work, but the money was OK. wasn’t fussed about driving tractors, but did quite a bit of that.
It all helped to earn money to buy motors etc.
Cheers Dave.
When I was off with my hand in 1964, I done a lot of potato picking with my wife, I would do some picking and twisting the wire around the top of the sack and stacking in a pile, it was halfacrown a sack, we got so quick at it, the farmer thought we was not putting enough potato’s in, he weighed them, and said you are so quick that I will double your area you pick if you come tomorrow? you are comming, we replied yes, we will be here as long as you have work, we was on for over a month,and needed money to start our solicistor on my court case against the insurance, I got it all back when I won.
hiya,
Never did potato picking Norm but did a bit of farm work as a young lad as
well as working down the mines , one incident I remember was when digging
a hole for a new gatepost I unearthed a gold sovereign the farmers son who
was supervising the job immediately snatched it out of my hand remarking
“my dad must have dropped that” it was about two feet down and had been
there since the original gate post had been put in, his Dad to be fair did give
me two bob for my “honesty” for finding his “lost” money.
thanks harry, long retired.
I have done plenty of potato picking like you Norm, it was a shilling a one cwt sack when I was a kid and you were limited to your stretch because everyone wanted to earn as much as possible. The last time I went potato picking the farmers had moved onto boxes which were much easier for tipping the buckets into, but took much longer to fill, as they held about five cwt.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Norm with you being married to a “Colleen” you would have got your
potato picking training at a cut price. To bejabus the taties will never
be done.
thanks harry, long retired.
The taters will be costing quite a price this year due to the poor spring and crap summer last year. I am going to be chips to save money.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
The taters will be costing quite a price this year due to the poor spring and crap summer last year. I am going to be chips to save money.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Due to the current bread shortage would all hotel patrons please request only toast with their breakfast.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
The taters will be costing quite a price this year due to the poor spring and crap summer last year. I am going to be chips to save money.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Due to the current bread shortage would all hotel patrons please request only toast with their breakfast.
thanks harry, long retired.
I’m going to see if I can buy a cheap 4.10 shotgun and start poaching to save money Harry, used to have one and a twelve bore, but got rid of them. Will have to get some rabbit wires as well to snare a few. Perhaps Norm will post me some onions to put in the pot with the rabbit to make a stew.
Cheers Dave.