Harry, on the two jobs I mentioned, normal wage was £30 for BRS, for Overland it was £100, and Carsberg was £35 with lots of overtime, within two years it went to over £30,000 per year, that is why the mechanics BET Copenagen wanted to do driving. 
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
hiya,
I just hope our good friend and fellow tactician Brian isn’t being forced
into this Paris break screaming with his arm up his back as it would be
in my case, I’m not into horsemeat, snails and frogs legs, yuk’.
thanks harry, long retired.He might be going to Paris for some " ooh la la " know what I mean Harry.
Cheers Dave.
If she’s thinking that she’d better think again, I leave all that over rated stuff to the young uns these days. Harry will understand, it’s a young mans game.
Couple of years ago I nearly got a decent result in Paris…I nearly lost her. 
We’d flown, train back from Central Paris to the airport terminal station (it’s big), get’s there, Brian get’s off, Ding Dong, train doors close, she’s still on and off the train goes…RESULT, where’s the bar?
Couldn’t ring her because the daft old woman had left her mobile phone in Dewsbury, she’d no money with her, no passport, nothing.
10 minutes later a train going the opposite way stops and she staggers off in floods of tears so my freedom was short lived.
Might be worth giving it another try this time though. 
Cataract surgery for Brian Monday morning.
I shall make friends with my Laphroaig on Sunday evening.
harry_gill:
hiya,
As a young “fellah” I had a bit of canny “ooh la la” and that was in Dewsbury,
but I was a single young fellah’!!! honest.
thanks harry, long retired.
My god, 
YOU’RE not the Harry she talks about are you?
grumpy old man:
harry_gill:
hiya,
As a young “fellah” I had a bit of canny “ooh la la” and that was in Dewsbury,
but I was a single young fellah’!!! honest.
thanks harry, long retired.My god,
hiya,
Brian if my memory is still working she had jet black hair was very pretty
and in those days if she hadn’t been very shapely she wouldn’t have got a
look in, I was about 22/23 she’d be about 20/21 I nearly fell in love but I
managed to get a grip of myself just in time, the trailer boy did have the
old Octopus nicely warmed up and all tyres kicked by the time I got back
the next morning.
thanks harry, long retired.
i wonder how many blokes in dewsbury are wondering if you are their long lost dad harry ?
I wonder if the trailer boy has ever thought of writing a book 
Chheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
I wonder if the trailer boy has ever thought of writing a book
Chheers Dave.
I know the title of the book! " Knotted Rope" 
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
I wonder if the trailer boy has ever thought of writing a book
Chheers Dave.I know the title of the book!
Or tales of a naughty driver’s philandering.
Cheers Dave.
I’ve visited the Brown Bear every evening for the last 40 years,looking for Harry Gill,can you help me contact him please,I have a pair of his under pants I want to return to him !
PS photo taken last week by Vogue Mag.
Bewick:
I’ve visited the Brown Bear every evening for the last 40 years,looking for Harry Gill,can you help me contact him please,I have a pair of his under pants I want to return to him !
hiya,
Ah’ hum hasn’t she worn well remember her like it was only yesterday,
hope she’s laundered the under crackers.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Bewick:
I’ve visited the Brown Bear every evening for the last 40 years,looking for Harry Gill,can you help me contact him please,I have a pair of his under pants I want to return to him !hiya,
Ah’ hum hasn’t she worn well remember her like it was only yesterday,
hope she’s laundered the under crackers.
thanks harry, long retired.
That looks like a “double” in her glass “H”,so it looks like Norm is in the bar this evening,she rekoned you were only good for for one,maybe two at a stretch,brown ales !! Cheers Dennis.PS I was only a lad,learning “the ropes” when all this “smooth talk” was going on,but I learned fast,you had to in them days eh!
hiya,
Got me weghed up to a tee Dennis Eh’ no flies on you, I reckon I’ll be struck
off the prospective employee’s list or at best placed at the very bottom with
a footnote saying “employ this man only if desperate” and only on local.
thanks harry, long retired.
Dennis I do not think Harry visited pubs that she goes to, I should say what she is drinking would set you back at least a tenner, Harry woul like four drinks for that at least.
Norman Ingram:
Dennis I do not think Harry visited pubs that she goes to,
hiya,
Norm I’ll have you know a half decent bottle of champers’ can be bought
cheaper than a bottle of the stuff I buy,only the best for me I’m not your
run of the mill former lorry driver.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry you would not have found a bird like that in the masens arms in todmorden
rdun:
harry you would not have found a bird like that in the masens arms in todmorden
hiya,
“Rdun” they can all look as good as her if you pour enough booze down
your neck, be it The Masons in Tod’ or Claridges in London, when I was
a young single fellah’ I’ve woken with some right dogs who after a few
bevvies the night before resembled Marilyn Monroe.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
rdun:
harry you would not have found a bird like that in the masens arms in todmordenhiya,
“Rdun” they can all look as good as her if you pour enough booze down
your neck, be it The Masons in Tod’ or Claridges in London, when I was
a young single fellah’ I’ve woken with some right dogs who after a few
bevvies the night before resembled Marilyn Monroe.
thanks harry, long retired.
There obviously wasn’t Specsavers in those now “far off” days so I suppose liberal quantities of drink had the same effect on the eyes as a decent pair of “bins” “H” eh! Our Norm seems to know what that Bird is drinking,and how much it will set you back as well !! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
harry_gill:
rdun:
harry you would not have found a bird like that in the masens arms in todmordenhiya,
“Rdun” they can all look as good as her if you pour enough booze down
your neck, be it The Masons in Tod’ or Claridges in London, when I was
a young single fellah’ I’ve woken with some right dogs who after a few
bevvies the night before resembled Marilyn Monroe.
thanks harry, long retired.There obviously wasn’t Specsavers in those now “far off” days so I suppose liberal quantities of drink had the same effect on the eyes as a decent pair of “bins” “H” eh! Our Norm seems to know what that Bird is drinking,and how much it will set you back as well !! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Dennis I’ve worn “bins” ever since I was a youngster about four years old
according to my Mam, so I’ve a good excuse for finding a few roughies in
the mornings, my specs used to get steamed up that’s my excuse and I’m
sticking with it, as for our Norm knowing what the bird is drinking no way
he couldn’t tell the difference between margerine and putty he got a shock
though when all his windows fell out. He’s a bleedin’ tee-totaller anyway
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry,I am like you wore glasses since a young age,nothing seriously wrong with my eyesight,just a lazy eye and astigmatism.Could read without glasses until I was in my forties,was told by an optician when I was about thirty,you don’t need to wear them all the time,but the eye specialist said wear them,so I did.Only took them off at playtime in school and in a dance hall after once getting clobbered whilst trying to save my specs.That didn’t happen again,they were safe in the case in my pocket,swing away lads.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Harry,I am like you wore glasses since a young age,nothing seriously wrong with my eyesight,just a lazy eye and astigmatism.Could read without glasses until I was in my forties,was told by an optician when I was about thirty,you don’t need to wear them all the time,but the eye specialist said wear them,so I did.Only took them off at playtime in school and in a dance hall after once getting clobbered whilst trying to save my specs.That didn’t happen again,they were safe in the case in my pocket,swing away lads.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave, never been able to read without glasses and wear varifocals but the general
vision bit is just about clear glass in fact I only look through the close up bit when I
check the instruments when walking about or driving my specs are perched on the
end of my nose and I tend to look over the top rather than through them, two pair
of glasses would be of no use to me I’d never find the bleedin’ spare pair.
thanks harry, long retired.