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.
I have worn varifocals for the last twenty years Harry.I don’t notice a of difference,half the time I don’t know which part I’m looking through.I wear sunglasses which came on prescription as my second pair,when driving if its sunny.The optician said I have cataract starting on my left eye and warned me to wear sunglasses if its sunny.I don’t really like the things,but have worn them because I don’t want my eyesight getting worse after being warned.
Cheers Dave.
Harry , your lazy eye has been waiting for you lazy body for years, it must be very happy since you retired they can both rest while yo are enjoying yourself with your malt whisky. On my way to the air raid shelter!
Norman Ingram:
Harry , your lazy eye has been waiting for you lazy body for years, it must be very happy since you retired they can both rest while yo are enjoying yourself with your malt whisky. On my way to the air raid shelter!
Norm’s very active to-night “H”,either nurse has woke him up or the sleeping draught hasn’t “kicked in” yet Zzzzzzzzzz!!! Anon 1.
Norman Ingram:
Harry , your lazy eye has been waiting for you lazy body for years, it must be very happy since you retired they can both rest while yo are enjoying yourself with your malt whisky. On my way to the air raid shelter!
Norm’s very active to-night “H”,either nurse has woke him up or the sleeping draught hasn’t “kicked in” yet Zzzzzzzzzz!!! Anon 1.
hiya,
Tak nee notice of Nosser Dennis, he tarks a load of bowls, Er’ spelling.
thanks harry, long retired.
Norman Ingram:
Harry I do hope you are not about to ,swear us gentlemen bowlers are not accustomed to any profound language.
hiya,
Swear Norm, me, never I don’t know any swear words with working for
the BRS there was no cause to learn any profanities.
thanks harry, long retired.
Norman Ingram:
Harry I do hope you are not about to ,swear us gentlemen bowlers are not accustomed to any profound language.
hiya,
Swear Norm, me, never I don’t know any swear words with working for
the BRS there was no cause to learn any profanities.
thanks harry, long retired.
We never used big words working for haulage contractors.Just stuck to the simple stuff.But we were the low life among drivers.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Harry I do hope you are not about to ,swear us gentlemen bowlers are not accustomed to any profound language.
hiya,
Swear Norm, me, never I don’t know any swear words with working for
the BRS there was no cause to learn any profanities.
thanks harry, long retired.
We never used big words working for haulage contractors.Just stuck to the simple stuff.But we were the low life among drivers.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Not a lot of point knowing/learning big words Dave, we spent most
of our time alone, I did converse with myself quite a bit and those
guys who drove buses but that was done with sign language usually
only using two fingers, thankfully I never started answering myself
or I reckon I would have had problems.
thanks harry, long retired.
Dave the Renegade:
Here’s another eight legger for you drivers to evaluate.
hiya,
Dave there’s a nice story about this old ■■■■■■■ the Ridings website
shows where she was sourced and the no expense rebuild in the
Longridge workshops, Having worked for Ridings many moons ago
there would have been no expense spared in the rebuild, this oldie
was never in the Ridings fleet. and is Mr Riding’s own motor.
thanks harry, long retired.
What is it Harry.I haven’t worked it out ?
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Sorry Dave I got locked out and couldn’t remember my login details
I see our good friend CWM has answered your question, but I’ll just
add it’s full title is Scammell Rigid Eight, this particular one was first
put on the road by Albright and Wilson in 1939 and moved on to the
company Round Oak Motor Services in 1952 finally ending it’s working
life at Mountford Bros. Bucknall, Stoke On Trent in 1956. this info is
readily available on Tom Riding’s website, “an excellent looksee”.
thanks harry, long retired.
Norman Ingram:
Harry I do hope you are not about to ,swear us gentlemen bowlers are not accustomed to any profound language.
hiya,
Swear Norm, me, never I don’t know any swear words with working for
the BRS there was no cause to learn any profanities.
thanks harry, long retired.
We never used big words working for haulage contractors.Just stuck to the simple stuff.But we were the low life among drivers.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Not a lot of point knowing/learning big words Dave, we spent most
of our time alone, I did converse with myself quite a bit and those
guys who drove buses but that was done with sign language usually
only using two fingers, thankfully I never started answering myself
or I reckon I would have had problems.
thanks harry, long retired.
I didn’t mind being on my own Harry,still don’t.When I used to take my late Mother down to my youngest Sisters in West Sussex,I quite enjoyed the journey back on my own,or vice versa.Always something to look at or see whilst travelling the roads.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Hmm eyeing up the girls while travelling on you own.
hiya,
Norm, I don’t think either you, Dave and me would spot much cab traffic in
the form of shapely young ladies on the roads between Dave’s home and his
sisters, we’re talking scenery here the days of georgous young females who
stand at motorway sliproads and in A road layby’s are long gone, Norm there
are’nt many hitchhikers about now.
thanks harry, long retired.
Knowing you and Dave, if you two was driving on your own, there would be nothing stopping you both from turning off the ring roads or motorway, just so you could give a real good coating of looking at the female talent!
Norman Ingram:
Knowing you and Dave, if you two was driving on your own, there would be nothing stopping you both from turning off the ring roads or motorway, just so you could give a real good coating of looking at the female talent!
I wouldn’t pick up a female or anyone else these days.If you stopped to pick someone up half a dozen others would appear from somewhere and want to get in the vehicle.I used to give people I knew a lift if they were walking to work.
I used to give one or two a lift in my own vehicle until a mate of mine said
" they can get their own vehicle,like we have ",so if it was someone always cadging lifts I let them walk.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Knowing you and Dave, if you two was driving on your own, there would be nothing stopping you both from turning off the ring roads or motorway, just so you could give a real good coating of looking at the female talent!
I wouldn’t pick up a female or anyone else these days.If you stopped to pick someone up half a dozen others would appear from somewhere and want to get in the vehicle.I used to give people I knew a lift if they were walking to work.
I used to give one or two a lift in my own vehicle until a mate of mine said
" they can get their own vehicle,like we have ",so if it was someone always cadging lifts I let them walk.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
What with the way people claim for little “incidents” they would only need
to “tap” their head getting out of your car and bang goes your NCD it does
happen and until these get rich lawmen are gotten a grip of it will carry on.
thanks harry, long retired
hiya,
The nearest I get to a decent bit of fowl these days is a nice home reared chicken
brought on by our local butcher corn fed specially for the table and only available on
the odd occasion and on special order, there’s a world of difference between his and
the frozen supermarket stuff or their things they sell as fresh oven ready, tasteless
to me, this lads birds are a bit pricey but I suppose, you only get what you pay for.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
The nearest I get to a decent bit of fowl these days is a nice home reared chicken
brought on by our local butcher corn fed specially for the table and only available on
the odd occasion and on special order, there’s a world of difference between his and
the frozen supermarket stuff or their things they sell as fresh oven ready, tasteless
to me, this lads birds are a bit pricey but I suppose, you only get what you pay for.
thanks harry, long retired.
That bird sounds a bit more attractive than the old boilers from Aldgate Harry. Regards Kev.
