Norman Ingram:
Dave don’t mention harry’s fan club, it brings images of harry naked, and waving fans about his body not a pretty sight, and certainly causes nightmares.
Tom Jones is nearly Harry’s age,and the females were throwing their drawers at him.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Yes Dave I have the same trouble I can’t go to the corner shop without
something whizzing in my direction it’s usually half a brick though.
thanks harry, long retired.
You must have some strong old dears your way Harry,to be throwing half bricks about.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Dave don’t mention harry’s fan club, it brings images of harry naked, and waving fans about his body not a pretty sight, and certainly causes nightmares.
Tom Jones is nearly Harry’s age,and the females were throwing their drawers at him.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Yes Dave I have the same trouble I can’t go to the corner shop without
something whizzing in my direction it’s usually half a brick though.
thanks harry, long retired.
You must have some strong old dears your way Harry,to be throwing half bricks about.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Dave don’t mention harry’s fan club, it brings images of harry naked, and waving fans about his body not a pretty sight, and certainly causes nightmares.
Tom Jones is nearly Harry’s age,and the females were throwing their drawers at him.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Yes Dave I have the same trouble I can’t go to the corner shop without
something whizzing in my direction it’s usually half a brick though.
thanks harry, long retired.
You must have some strong old dears your way Harry,to be throwing half bricks about.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Dave don’t mention harry’s fan club, it brings images of harry naked, and waving fans about his body not a pretty sight, and certainly causes nightmares.
Tom Jones is nearly Harry’s age,and the females were throwing their drawers at him.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Yes Dave I have the same trouble I can’t go to the corner shop without
something whizzing in my direction it’s usually half a brick though.
thanks harry, long retired.
You must have some strong old dears your way Harry,to be throwing half bricks about.
Cheers Dave.
It could be they are trying to improve your looks Harry.
Howay Bonny Lads,this thread is going to get out of hand,what with drunken Old Dowagers throwing knickers and bricks at “H”,just supposing that he mistakes a brick for a pair of size 22 “high leg” ■■■■■■■! He could get his head taken off if he missed the catch !! So give a bit order there lads and lass !! Anon 1 member no 12.
Norman Ingram:
Dave don’t mention harry’s fan club, it brings images of harry naked, and waving fans about his body not a pretty sight, and certainly causes nightmares.
Tom Jones is nearly Harry’s age,and the females were throwing their drawers at him.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Yes Dave I have the same trouble I can’t go to the corner shop without
something whizzing in my direction it’s usually half a brick though.
thanks harry, long retired.
You must have some strong old dears your way Harry,to be throwing half bricks about.
Cheers Dave
Well it is the North East you know
It must be the Newcastle Brown ale.
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It could be they are trying to improve your looks Harry. :lol.
You must have been running from a brick yourself Norm,you posted that comment in the middle.Ang has put you all about.
Cheers Dave.
Well Dave still waiting to have the cataract on my left eye , done, if I close my right eye, I can hardly see the words on the computor, thats my excuse and i’m sticking to it!
Norman Ingram:
Well Dave still waiting to have the cataract on my left eye , done, if I close my right eye, I can hardly see the words on the computor, thats my excuse and i’m sticking to it!
Quite believe you Norm.I have a cataract on my left eye also.It doesn’t affect me yet.Had my eyes tested two months ago and it hadn’t deteriorated.I have been told it will only need removing when they can’t examine my eye properly.
Cheers Dave.
well harry will have to keep his eye on you if you now all about high leg nickers i dont think harry nows about nickers as he came from bacup sum did not when i went there good luck
rigsby:
you 've destroyed a vision i had of a rufty tufty old lorry driver enjoying his well earned retirement harry . supervisory duties , collar and tie and a suit , i fear you are an impostor sir , what have you done with the real harry gill .?
hiya,
What have I done with the real Harry ?, don’t worry Dave I reverted to
the same old scruffy git the instant the pension book was held tightly in
my breadhook and actually did a trip or two for a pal of mine in his old
Ford 7.5 just to let people I knew know I wasn’t dead and still in touch
with my roots, soon got sick though and chucked it altogether, secretly I haven’t missed driving one bit and actually travel by bus rather than go places in the car, and it costs nowt plus I can call in for a wee dram or two without fear of being pulled by the law.
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry, we could be a double act, I’m the same. Although modern day bus “drivers” and myself don’t mix well. I’m ashamed to say I had a mild verbal riot with one yesterday. And one day one of them is going to find out the hard way what brake fade is. It’s beyond me why they feel the need to accelerate, with a full bus, going DOWN a steep hill.
rigsby:
you 've destroyed a vision i had of a rufty tufty old lorry driver enjoying his well earned retirement harry . supervisory duties , collar and tie and a suit , i fear you are an impostor sir , what have you done with the real harry gill .?
hiya,
What have I done with the real Harry ?, don’t worry Dave I reverted to
the same old scruffy git the instant the pension book was held tightly in
my breadhook and actually did a trip or two for a pal of mine in his old
Ford 7.5 just to let people I knew know I wasn’t dead and still in touch
with my roots, soon got sick though and chucked it altogether, secretly I haven’t missed driving one bit and actually travel by bus rather than go places in the car, and it costs nowt plus I can call in for a wee dram or two without fear of being pulled by the law.
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry, we could be a double act, I’m the same. Although modern day bus “drivers” and myself don’t mix well. I’m ashamed to say I had a mild verbal riot with one yesterday. And one day one of them is going to find out the hard way what brake fade is. It’s beyond me why they feel the need to accelerate, with a full bus, going DOWN a steep hill.
We had three bus drivers come onto tippers pre HGV days.None of them could reverse using mirrors,we often reversed at least two miles down narrow roads to tip tarmac into a pavor.Most of them are main road drivers and aren’t tough enough for lorry driving,especially years ago when there was a lot of handballing goods.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Bus drivers are only taught to reverse a distance of three feet,
the reason being is if they happen to run over the inspector’s
foot they are capable of going back just far enough to free him
so’s he can get hospital treatment for his injuries, I trust them
going forwards though, but only if my eyes are kept tight shut.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Bus drivers are only taught to reverse a distance of three feet,
the reason being is if they happen to run over the inspector’s
foot they are capable of going back just far enough to free him
so’s he can get hospital treatment for his injuries, I trust them
going forwards though, but only if my eyes are kept tight shut.
thanks harry, long retired.
Sounds about right Harry.We had one ex bus driver with us that would reverse a couple of yards then pull forward and then carry on again,until one day, one of the other lorry drivers grabbed him and threw him in the passenger seat and jumped in the lorry ( K series Dodge ) and sent it screaming down the road in reverse.The rest of us just watched with a big grin.
Cheers Dave.
The only time I saw bus driver reverse? is when they went a strange way, and come face to face with a low bridge even then some tried to go under rather than reverse back. Once in Oxford I was behind one, the driver was red in the face, he said I have been under this bridge several times, I cannot get under it now, I cannot reverse back because of the traffic. I said to him let your tyres down and you will get under, they have resurfaced the road and done it too thick, you are lucky, for there is a garage on the right the otherside of the bridge, so you can re inflate them. How the heck did you think of that, oh we used to do that quite a lot on the A9 to Inverness.
Norman Ingram:
The only time I saw bus driver reverse? is when they went a strange way, and come face to face with a low bridge even then some tried to go under rather than reverse back. Once in Oxford I was behind one, the driver was red in the face, he said I have been under this bridge several times, I cannot get under it now, I cannot reverse back because of the traffic. I said to him let your tyres down and you will get under, they have resurfaced the road and done it too thick, you are lucky, for there is a garage on the right the otherside of the bridge, so you can re inflate them. How the heck did you think of that, oh we used to do that quite a lot on the A9 to Inverness.
I would think Norm,that a lot of bus drivers running the same routes in the towns and city’s,would get complacent after a while.Probably not noticing things like resurfacing and such like.They must get brain dead,driving around the same area,day in and day out.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
The only time I saw bus driver reverse? is when they went a strange way, and come face to face with a low bridge even then some tried to go under rather than reverse back. Once in Oxford I was behind one, the driver was red in the face, he said I have been under this bridge several times, I cannot get under it now, I cannot reverse back because of the traffic. I said to him let your tyres down and you will get under, they have resurfaced the road and done it too thick, you are lucky, for there is a garage on the right the otherside of the bridge, so you can re inflate them. How the heck did you think of that, oh we used to do that quite a lot on the A9 to Inverness.
I would think Norm,that a lot of bus drivers running the same routes in the towns and city’s,would get complacent after a while.Probably not noticing things like resurfacing and such like.They must get brain dead,driving around the same area,day in and day out.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Even as a lorry driver if I did the same route more than twice on the trot
I had to go and see the physciatrist it used to send me bonkers, so being
a bus driver wouldn’t have been an option for me I’d have left the bus on
the stand and gone on the pop after the second trip.
thanks harry, long retired.
I know when I worked on the chicken factory at Brackley, I had to take a advance driving course with BSM, and they took me into Oxford and he said turn right, so I pulled up and put on my handbrake, he said whats up, I replied you test a lot of car drivers, yes he said why? Because if I was in a car I would have done what you asked, but I’m in a high lorry and the bridge around the corner is too low, how do you know he asked, because that sign beind us told me the hight, and I know the highth of my lorry. When the results came through the manager said the report they sent made you top of the firm, I when you have got it you have got it!
Norman Ingram:
The only time I saw bus driver reverse? is when they went a strange way, and come face to face with a low bridge even then some tried to go under rather than reverse back. Once in Oxford I was behind one, the driver was red in the face, he said I have been under this bridge several times, I cannot get under it now, I cannot reverse back because of the traffic. I said to him let your tyres down and you will get under, they have resurfaced the road and done it too thick, you are lucky, for there is a garage on the right the otherside of the bridge, so you can re inflate them. How the heck did you think of that, oh we used to do that quite a lot on the A9 to Inverness.
I would think Norm,that a lot of bus drivers running the same routes in the towns and city’s,would get complacent after a while.Probably not noticing things like resurfacing and such like.They must get brain dead,driving around the same area,day in and day out.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Even as a lorry driver if I did the same route more than twice on the trot
I had to go and see the physciatrist it used to send me bonkers, so being
a bus driver wouldn’t have been an option for me I’d have left the bus on
the stand and gone on the pop after the second trip.
thanks harry, long retired.
Sometimes driving tippers Harry,we had the same journey four or five times a day if the job wasn’t over 30 miles away.
If it was a longer run,I would go one way and back another. I still do that these days,to vary the route,it breaks the monotony.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Well Dave still waiting to have the cataract on my left eye , done, if I close my right eye, I can hardly see the words on the computor, thats my excuse and i’m sticking to it!
Quite believe you Norm.I have a cataract on my left eye also.It doesn’t affect me yet.Had my eyes tested two months ago and it hadn’t deteriorated.I have been told it will only need removing when they can’t examine my eye properly.
Cheers Dave.
January 22nd 2013, this owd lad is having a cataract job done, nowt to it, my father was 93 when he had it done, he walked in and walked out later in the morning, job done. The procedure is called…Phacoemulsification. Google it.
Norman Ingram:
Well Dave still waiting to have the cataract on my left eye , done, if I close my right eye, I can hardly see the words on the computor, thats my excuse and i’m sticking to it!
Quite believe you Norm.I have a cataract on my left eye also.It doesn’t affect me yet.Had my eyes tested two months ago and it hadn’t deteriorated.I have been told it will only need removing when they can’t examine my eye properly.
Cheers Dave.
January 22nd 2013, this owd lad is having a cataract job done, nowt to it, my father was 93 when he had it done, he walked in and walked out later in the morning, job done. The procedure is called…Phacoemulsification. Google it.
Hope all goes well for you Brian.Some of my family have had them done with no problems.When the time comes for me to have it done,I won’t hesitate.
Cheers Dave.
not a pretty sight,
