grumpy old man:
Hehehe…I’ve just got a free TV licence.
and on a serious note, if this country can afford £ Billions every year in foreign aid…the ■■■■ sure should be able to look after their own OAP’s
Well in a few years time the majority of our OAP’s will be foreigners anyway Brian! Just peeled my spuds, carrot’s, broccoli, swede etc for dinner so will settle down with that and a meat pie for a while, then go and put some paint on the garage window frame. Be time for Hospital visiting then and back home just in time for tea…
grumpy old man:
Hehehe…I’ve just got a free TV licence.
and on a serious note, if this country can afford £ Billions every year in foreign aid…the ■■■■ sure should be able to look after their own OAP’s
Well in a few years time the majority of our OAP’s will be foreigners anyway Brian! Just peeled my spuds, carrot’s, broccoli, swede etc for dinner so will settle down with that and a meat pie for a while, then go and put some paint on the garage window frame. Be time for Hospital visiting then and back home just in time for tea…
Pete.
hiya,
Bloody hell Pete it’s Sunday A DAY OF REST the hospital visit is a must of course
but the lavish lunch that spells WORK and the garage window can wait, if left
long enough it will rot away and that’ll be a job less, no window means one job
that’ll never need doing again if it ain’t there you can’t paint it, as for having to
make something for you’re tea is there not a chippie on the way home from the
hospital visit (hope everything is getting better there) you’ve a lot to learn lad,
there’s maybe an opening here for me (The Harry Gill school for Skivers) could
be a fortune to be made, I am now awaiting the enrolment fees to arrive.
thanks harry, long retired.
We have just had roast Sunday lunch at Morrisons cafe in Leominster £4.75 each plus two mugs of tea,just over £11.00, can’t go wrong.
We had a carvery at a pub before Christmas and that cost nearly three times as much for the same amount.
Hope your wife soon gets better Pete.
Cheers Dave.
Yes Dave, we use Morrisons a lot for lunch, even been in the Leominster one a few times when we stayed in Pembridge. Good value and MOST times a decent meal.
A chippie on a Sunday Harry, not in this area? Didn’t get the window frame done, my Neighbour needed a hand so that filled the day in before visiting. Sunday is just another day when you don’t go out to work so I just carry on as normal, and the food takes no preparing really (try it sometime) and what else would I do with my time eh? Never going to be one of those chaps who spends his retirement sitting in a chair waiting for the call from Big G, keep moving and I will be harder for him to find! I get up with the alarm around 6.50 am each day and turn in again around midnight. Never needed a woman waiting on me, if I want something doing then I do it myself and I know that it’s done right!
grumpy old man:
Hehehe…I’ve just got a free TV licence.
and on a serious note, if this country can afford £ Billions every year in foreign aid…the ■■■■ sure should be able to look after their own OAP’s
Well in a few years time the majority of our OAP’s will be foreigners anyway Brian! Just peeled my spuds, carrot’s, broccoli, swede etc for dinner so will settle down with that and a meat pie for a while, then go and put some paint on the garage window frame. Be time for Hospital visiting then and back home just in time for tea…
Pete.
hiya,
Bloody hell Pete it’s Sunday A DAY OF REST the hospital visit is a must of course
but the lavish lunch that spells WORK and the garage window can wait, if left
long enough it will rot away and that’ll be a job less, no window means one job
that’ll never need doing again if it ain’t there you can’t paint it, as for having to
make something for you’re tea is there not a chippie on the way home from the
hospital visit (hope everything is getting better there) you’ve a lot to learn lad,
there’s maybe an opening here for me (The Harry Gill school for Skivers) could
be a fortune to be made, I am now awaiting the enrolment fees to arrive.
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry my man just take things as they come, I think you should open another bottle of Glenffidich & give it some welly & enjoy, Ive just finished a bottle of Glenmoragie because I was feeling a bit down, Or should I say a bit thirsty for the Amber Nectar, ? Hope you are keeping well, Regards Larry.
hiya,
Yes Larry keeping OK and still enjoying a wee dram or two, but I’m a bit
worried about Pete telling me I should try doing some cooking it isn’t in
my contract to try that, anyway it would only go to waste if I tried to
cook no one would eat my food anyway, I know I wouldn’t, it would be a
waste of good ingredients if I got my hands on them, as for D I Y not for
me, I’m afraid I don’t have the gear anymore I made a point of losing the
implements of labour a while back, I just left them on the pavement in
front of my car and when I went back a couple of hours later they’d all
gone those gypsy guys can be of some use sometimes.
thanks harry, long retired.
Sorry Harry, I didn’t realise that cooking etc wasn’t in your contract. When I wed I promised to Love, Honour and Obey, so when she told me to do the cooking I agreed, but 39 years on she hasn’t told me to STOP yet…do you think that I should perhaps mention it to her, naming you as my adviser of course? I could learn a lot from you Harry, I may just be tempted to enlist on one of your FREE courses…not bothered about the sheeting and roping one though.
windrush:
Sorry Harry, I didn’t realise that cooking etc wasn’t in your contract. When I wed I promised to Love, Honour and Obey, so when she told me to do the cooking I agreed, but 39 years on she hasn’t told me to STOP yet…do you think that I should perhaps mention it to her, naming you as my adviser of course? I could learn a lot from you Harry, I may just be tempted to enlist on one of your FREE courses…not bothered about the sheeting and roping one though.
Pete.
hiya,
FREE COURSES !!! who said anything about free but should you enlist
on the roping and sheeting course I do give for free a couple of hours
tuition on the art of taming unruly trailer boys and the manufacture
of the necessary “knotted rope” essential for keeping them in check,
and Pete don’t implicate me should you tell your good lady the job
of cooking is “wimmins work” I do get plenty of thick ears off my old
woman without risking the same from your good lady, my one and
only weakness is I’m terrified of women.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
FREE COURSES !!! who said anything about free but should you enlist
on the roping and sheeting course I do give for free a couple of hours
tuition on the art of taming unruly trailer boys and the manufacture
of the necessary “knotted rope” essential for keeping them in check,
and Pete don’t implicate me should you tell your good lady the job
of cooking is “wimmins work” I do get plenty of thick ears off my old
woman without risking the same from your good lady, my one and
only weakness is I’m terrified of women.
thanks harry, long retired.
Sorry to break it to you Harry but trailer lads are like the Dodo, extinct, so a knotted rope is only fit for a museum these days alas. I will just carry on as normal, can’t afford your expert tuition alas as I am not of pensionable age yet but when I am and have plenty of spare cash I will have a rethink. Maybe I could teach you cooking and housework…
harry_gill:
hiya,
FREE COURSES !!! who said anything about free but should you enlist
on the roping and sheeting course I do give for free a couple of hours
tuition on the art of taming unruly trailer boys and the manufacture
of the necessary “knotted rope” essential for keeping them in check,
and Pete don’t implicate me should you tell your good lady the job
of cooking is “wimmins work” I do get plenty of thick ears off my old
woman without risking the same from your good lady, my one and
only weakness is I’m terrified of women.
thanks harry, long retired.
Sorry to break it to you Harry but trailer lads are like the Dodo, extinct, so a knotted rope is only fit for a museum these days alas. I will just carry on as normal, can’t afford your expert tuition alas as I am not of pensionable age yet but when I am and have plenty of spare cash I will have a rethink. Maybe I could teach you cooking and housework…
Pete.
hiya,
Thanks for the offer of me re-training on your domesticity course and don’t
be distressed at my refusal but it’s taken for ages for me to have acquired
the status of “useless old git” and I’m better at getting under the wife’s feet
than getting hold of her Hoover, an all-expenses paid excursion to Scottish
distilleries (with unlimited sampling) would be acceptable though and with
bags packed I await the arrival of the necessary documentation.
thanks harry, long retired
windrush:
Sorry Harry, I didn’t realise that cooking etc wasn’t in your contract. When I wed I promised to Love, Honour and Obey, so when she told me to do the cooking I agreed, but 39 years on she hasn’t told me to STOP yet…do you think that I should perhaps mention it to her, naming you as my adviser of course? I could learn a lot from you Harry, I may just be tempted to enlist on one of your FREE courses…not bothered about the sheeting and roping one though.
Pete.
No, no yer daft owd bugga…SHE does the “love honour, and Obey” bit (and the window painting if she’s been trained right), you are there to provide technical advice and to supervise as required.
And please, don’t ask Harry for anything FREE…it causes him stress and he has to resort to a bottle of malt.
windrush is a hard man to educate , but he is only a lad yet .it takes many years to become accomplished in the art of useless old git living and the much sought after advice of harry gill can be invaluable . for instance i have now transferred all my new tools to the garden shed where they can rust in peace , and should the wife suggest they are needed , a plaintive " i can’t go up the garden in this weather " usually heads her off at the pass .likewise with the hoover and other complicated equipment , " how does this go together ?" or "why is all that smoke coming out of the frying pan ? " usually gets me relieved of my duties . i think i am close to achieving expert status now as the demands are declining rapidly and the mutterings of "useless old git " more frequent , plus those golden words "it’s quicker to do it myself " cheers , dave
hiya,
Rigger’s you and me could make a formidable team between us we could do
away with the necessity of getting married and when reaching our time of
life be supplied with home helps 24/7 paid for out of public funds, but only
if they are pretty and preferring the older gentlemen, until reaching that
status us old tramper’s wouldn’t need home comforts and all our scran could
be sought from roadside hostelries and other “home” comforts could be got
from layby’s and motorway services, see you in the STD clinic, we’ll talk it
over while we’re waiting to be seen.
thanks harry, long retired.
Well it appears that when the missus finally comes back home a big retraining programme will have to be installed in Windrush Towers? Now I have to get into bad habits and just act daft when certain tasks need doing, trouble is that I may well starve to death waiting for somebody to make me a meal or a drink of tea/coffee. Guess that I could get my elderly neighbour to adopt me, she thinks a lot of me? Thank you gents for all your expert advice, I don’t believe a word of it mind, and I will now go outside and paint that garage window frame!!
windrush:
Well it appears that when the missus finally comes back home a big retraining programme will have to be installed in Windrush Towers? Now I have to get into bad habits and just act daft when certain tasks need doing, trouble is that I may well starve to death waiting for somebody to make me a meal or a drink of tea/coffee. Guess that I could get my elderly neighbour to adopt me, she thinks a lot of me? Thank you gents for all your expert advice, I don’t believe a word of it mind, and I will now go outside and paint that garage window frame!!
Pete.
hiya,
Don’t believe a word of it indeed, Riggers and me are exponents in the art
of being bone idle, I do as I’m told on one thing though, my wife asks me
if I’ll pop to the corner shop a very short distance from my home and she
has started to wonder why I’m so keen to do that task, she hasn’t seen the
new middle aged assistant who has recently started there who I ogle quite
a bit she’s very tasty indeed and makes me have funny thoughts good job
my “old lady” hasn’t mastered mind reading YET.
thanks harry, long retired.
windrush:
Well it appears that when the missus finally comes back home a big retraining programme will have to be installed in Windrush Towers? Now I have to get into bad habits and just act daft when certain tasks need doing, trouble is that I may well starve to death waiting for somebody to make me a meal or a drink of tea/coffee. Guess that I could get my elderly neighbour to adopt me, she thinks a lot of me? Thank you gents for all your expert advice, I don’t believe a word of it mind, and I will now go outside and paint that garage window frame!!
Pete.
You could be a bit over-height for adoption Pete. There’s probably a height limit like on bridges.
Cheers Dave.
windrush:
Well it appears that when the missus finally comes back home a big retraining programme will have to be installed in Windrush Towers? Now I have to get into bad habits and just act daft when certain tasks need doing, trouble is that I may well starve to death waiting for somebody to make me a meal or a drink of tea/coffee. Guess that I could get my elderly neighbour to adopt me, she thinks a lot of me? Thank you gents for all your expert advice, I don’t believe a word of it mind, and I will now go outside and paint that garage window frame!!
Pete.
You could be a bit over-height for adoption Pete. There’s probably a height limit like on bridges.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
You can’t win em’ all Dave, but the young fellah’ mi lad might just realise our
way is the only way, and the thorn in my side is I’ve spelled out the dangers
of doing jobs, and holding the tools to do the job, and what does he do paints
the garage window, I smell failure here unless Riggers can enlighten him
thanks harry, long retired.
windrush:
Well it appears that when the missus finally comes back home a big retraining programme will have to be installed in Windrush Towers? Now I have to get into bad habits and just act daft when certain tasks need doing, trouble is that I may well starve to death waiting for somebody to make me a meal or a drink of tea/coffee. Guess that I could get my elderly neighbour to adopt me, she thinks a lot of me? Thank you gents for all your expert advice, I don’t believe a word of it mind, and I will now go outside and paint that garage window frame!!
Pete.
You could be a bit over-height for adoption Pete. There’s probably a height limit like on bridges.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
You can’t win em’ all Dave, but the young fellah’ mi lad might just realise our
way is the only way, and the thorn in my side is I’ve spelled out the dangers
of doing jobs, and holding the tools to do the job, and what does he do paints
the garage window, I smell failure here unless Riggers can enlighten him
thanks harry, long retired.
You have the job summed up Harry, as you say Pete is only a young bloke in comparison and needs some guidance off some of the battle hardened veterans such as Riggers and grumpy old man. Perhaps he could do an online correspondence course on how to survive in
the home and garden.
Cheers Dave.
painting ? that was one of my early successes in establishing how useless i am . it is over 40 years since i was allowed anywhere near a paint brush . a run here , a little smear on a window pane , banned for life …result ! several years ago i was instructed to paint the garden fence , so i went and bought a spray gun . have you any idea how much havoc you can wreak with a spray gun full of paint . spray gun went in the skip , the staff paint the fence when required . as swmbo commented (loudly ) it would be cheaper to buy a new fence . i’m not perfect , but with the help and advice of harry and brian i get better each day . cheers , dave
windrush:
Well it appears that when the missus finally comes back home a big retraining programme will have to be installed in Windrush Towers? Now I have to get into bad habits and just act daft when certain tasks need doing, trouble is that I may well starve to death waiting for somebody to make me a meal or a drink of tea/coffee. Guess that I could get my elderly neighbour to adopt me, she thinks a lot of me? Thank you gents for all your expert advice, I don’t believe a word of it mind, and I will now go outside and paint that garage window frame!!
Pete.
You could be a bit over-height for adoption Pete. There’s probably a height limit like on bridges.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
You can’t win em’ all Dave, but the young fellah’ mi lad might just realise our
way is the only way, and the thorn in my side is I’ve spelled out the dangers
of doing jobs, and holding the tools to do the job, and what does he do paints
the garage window, I smell failure here unless Riggers can enlighten him
thanks harry, long retired.
You have the job summed up Harry, as you say Pete is only a young bloke in comparison and needs some guidance off some of the battle hardened veterans such as Riggers and grumpy old man. Perhaps he could do an online correspondence course on how to survive in
the home and garden.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
You mentioned gardens there Dave,now that is a dirty word,I’m currently in
negotiations with these fracking fellahs’ and trying to coax them into a deal
whereby they can frack to their hearts content in my rear garden if they can
promise to tidy it up before they leave and any spare gas they find to make
sure it goes up my pipe so’s I can light the gas fire once in a while.
thanks harry, long retired.
Just peeled my spuds, carrot’s, broccoli, swede etc for dinner so will settle down with that and a meat pie for a while, then go and put some paint on the garage window frame. Be time for Hospital visiting then and back home just in time for tea… 
When I wed I promised to Love, Honour and Obey, so when she told me to do the cooking I agreed, but 39 years on she hasn’t told me to STOP yet…do you think that I should perhaps mention it to her, naming you as my adviser of course? 
I could learn a lot from you Harry, I may just be tempted to enlist on one of your FREE courses…not bothered about the sheeting and roping one though.