The Harry Gill Fan Club!

[harry_gill]

grumpy old man:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
Don’t worry about Harry, he goe’s mutton deaf when he wants too. Also harry I can’t remember when I was two sheets to the wind, when my first born was born, I went to the club and wet his head. Wife said are you alright, I said yes, but when I was walking home, the bloody hedges kept bumping into me!

hiya,
Oh’ Norm we go the whole hog up this neck of the woods and go THREE sheets to the wind
but we’ve got plenty of lighthouses around our coast to make sure we sail safely home.
thanks harry, long retired.

I expect after all these years Harry, you could find your way home blindfolded and blind drunk.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Yes Dave blind drunk and even on my hands and knees, and it would be even
easier if I ever learn how to use the bloody sat-nav I bought years ago, most
useless thing I’ve ever bought, well it’s a toss up really there’s several cameras
and other electrical gadgetry that I’ve wasted money on, thrown into a trunk
under the stairs where no doubt they will become obsolete and so will become
worthless, I really belong back in the early 20th century.
thanks harry, long retired.

I’ve never even thought of buying a sat-nav Harry. I have wasted a lot of money on other gadgets over the years. I have a radio scanner which cost a lot of money, which I have rarely used,also a telescope with a tripod etc which is very good, but half the time I can’t be arsed to set it up. Numerous other things over the years which are sat in a cupboard and forgotten about. I have purchased about ten new vehicles since 1972 ranging from £1,200 to £30,000 which have all depreciated and been sold for a small amount, except for the two vans which I still have.
None of these things are worth bugger all now, if I do purchase another vehicle in the future it certainly won’t be a new one.
Cheers Dave.

Tell me about it, £33500 my Jaguar cost (it was my retirement present to me because I deserved it ) Now, 9 years later, I’d be lucky to get £4000 for it.
It’s only done 54000 miles, no more cars for me, the Jaguar stays.

hiya,
I did ask the wife if I should buy a new car when I chucked it, she OK’d it saying
our youngest daughter deserved it and got it, I finished up with a three years old
ex-hire car which was quite quickly written off by a boy racer who miscued it on
a bend and took the drivers side completely off my “new” motor the wife was at
the helm at the time but thankfully totally unscathed but it did take a lot of time
trying to get her driving again, this was a problem because her job at that time
required her to drive around the elderly peoples houses, which for a while I was
having to do her chauffeuring and I was supposed to be retired.
thanks harry, long retired.

[dave_the_renegade]

harry_gill:

grumpy old man:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
Don’t worry about Harry, he goe’s mutton deaf when he wants too. Also harry I can’t remember when I was two sheets to the wind, when my first born was born, I went to the club and wet his head. Wife said are you alright, I said yes, but when I was walking home, the bloody hedges kept bumping into me!

hiya,
Oh’ Norm we go the whole hog up this neck of the woods and go THREE sheets to the wind
but we’ve got plenty of lighthouses around our coast to make sure we sail safely home.
thanks harry, long retired.

I expect after all these years Harry, you could find your way home blindfolded and blind drunk.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Yes Dave blind drunk and even on my hands and knees, and it would be even
easier if I ever learn how to use the bloody sat-nav I bought years ago, most
useless thing I’ve ever bought, well it’s a toss up really there’s several cameras
and other electrical gadgetry that I’ve wasted money on, thrown into a trunk
under the stairs where no doubt they will become obsolete and so will become
worthless, I really belong back in the early 20th century.
thanks harry, long retired.

I’ve never even thought of buying a sat-nav Harry. I have wasted a lot of money on other gadgets over the years. I have a radio scanner which cost a lot of money, which I have rarely used,also a telescope with a tripod etc which is very good, but half the time I can’t be arsed to set it up. Numerous other things over the years which are sat in a cupboard and forgotten about. I have purchased about ten new vehicles since 1972 ranging from £1,200 to £30,000 which have all depreciated and been sold for a small amount, except for the two vans which I still have.
None of these things are worth bugger all now, if I do purchase another vehicle in the future it certainly won’t be a new one.
Cheers Dave.

Tell me about it, £33500 my Jaguar cost (it was my retirement present to me because I deserved it ) Now, 9 years later, I’d be lucky to get £4000 for it.
It’s only done 54000 miles, no more cars for me, the Jaguar stays.

hiya,
I did ask the wife if I should buy a new car when I chucked it, she OK’d it saying
our youngest daughter deserved it and got it, I finished up with a three years old
ex-hire car which was quite quickly written off by a boy racer who miscued it on
a bend and took the drivers side completely off my “new” motor the wife was at
the helm at the time but thankfully totally unscathed but it did take a lot of time
trying to get her driving again, this was a problem because her job at that time
required her to drive around the elderly peoples houses, which for a while I was
having to do her chauffeuring and I was supposed to be retired.
thanks harry, long retired.

I was at the mobility roadshow at Telford today, its a big show held annually at two or three venues throughout the country.
All the big motor manufacturers have stands there plus loads of wheelchair companies and organisations from all the disability groups. I asked one of the guys on a stand how much a new electric tiedown to secure a wheelchair in a vehicle cost, he said £1,300 plus £190 for brackets and extra for the electric switch. I said forget it,they were £250 when I bought my sprinter, so when my transit comes to the end of the road, the one on there will be saved and used again. Bloody rip off merchants. Good job I was only asking out of interest to see how much the price had gone up.
Cheers Dave.

[harry_gill]

hiya,
How many people notice that the important things in life are never offered
at sale prices, you get clothes and shoes by the boatload offered, I never go
near clothes shops, they try to let you think that motor dealers are giving you
a bargain, biggest load of phooey ever, but things that are needed only ever
increase in price, knowing they’ve got you by the balls.
thanks harry, long retired.

[dave_the_renegade]

That’s the way it is Harry. Every firm has to make a profit, but some of these outfits want the clothes off your back, then wonder why they aren’t doing much business.
Cheers Dave.

[norman_ingram]

You are right Dave, they all seem to want to make profit out of the people who have illness or injury, even sweets & chocolate for diabetes are twice as much, I had to tell my daughter not to buy It. When you want slippers for swollen feet, or special socks, two to three times as much, it is a rip off!

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
You are right Dave, they all seem to want to make profit out of the people who have illness or injury, even sweets & chocolate for diabetes are twice as much, I had to tell my daughter not to buy It. When you want slippers for swollen feet, or special socks, two to three times as much, it is a rip off!

That’s the modern world for you Norm. Rip you off, no courtesy either these days, no matter how much you spend with some of the businesses, you are lucky to get a grunt out of the staff.
Then they moan that their business is suffering.
Cheers Dave.

[otto194242]

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

grumpy old man:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
Don’t worry about Harry, he goe’s mutton deaf when he wants too. Also harry I can’t remember when I was two sheets to the wind, when my first born was born, I went to the club and wet his head. Wife said are you alright, I said yes, but when I was walking home, the bloody hedges kept bumping into me!

hiya,
Oh’ Norm we go the whole hog up this neck of the woods and go THREE sheets to the wind
but we’ve got plenty of lighthouses around our coast to make sure we sail safely home.
thanks harry, long retired.

I expect after all these years Harry, you could find your way home blindfolded and blind drunk.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Yes Dave blind drunk and even on my hands and knees, and it would be even
easier if I ever learn how to use the bloody sat-nav I bought years ago, most
useless thing I’ve ever bought, well it’s a toss up really there’s several cameras
and other electrical gadgetry that I’ve wasted money on, thrown into a trunk
under the stairs where no doubt they will become obsolete and so will become
worthless, I really belong back in the early 20th century.
thanks harry, long retired.

I’ve never even thought of buying a sat-nav Harry. I have wasted a lot of money on other gadgets over the years. I have a radio scanner which cost a lot of money, which I have rarely used,also a telescope with a tripod etc which is very good, but half the time I can’t be arsed to set it up. Numerous other things over the years which are sat in a cupboard and forgotten about. I have purchased about ten new vehicles since 1972 ranging from £1,200 to £30,000 which have all depreciated and been sold for a small amount, except for the two vans which I still have.
None of these things are worth bugger all now, if I do purchase another vehicle in the future it certainly won’t be a new one.
Cheers Dave.

Tell me about it, £33500 my Jaguar cost (it was my retirement present to me because I deserved it ) Now, 9 years later, I’d be lucky to get £4000 for it.
It’s only done 54000 miles, no more cars for me, the Jaguar stays.

hiya,
I did ask the wife if I should buy a new car when I chucked it, she OK’d it saying
our youngest daughter deserved it and got it, I finished up with a three years old
ex-hire car which was quite quickly written off by a boy racer who miscued it on
a bend and took the drivers side completely off my “new” motor the wife was at
the helm at the time but thankfully totally unscathed but it did take a lot of time
trying to get her driving again, this was a problem because her job at that time
required her to drive around the elderly peoples houses, which for a while I was
having to do her chauffeuring and I was supposed to be retired.
thanks harry, long retired.

I was at the mobility roadshow at Telford today, its a big show held annually at two or three venues throughout the country.
All the big motor manufacturers have stands there plus loads of wheelchair companies and organisations from all the disability groups. I asked one of the guys on a stand how much a new electric tiedown to secure a wheelchair in a vehicle cost, he said £1,300 plus £190 for brackets and extra for the electric switch. I said forget it,they were £250 when I bought my sprinter, so when my transit comes to the end of the road, the one on there will be saved and used again. Bloody rip off merchants. Good job I was only asking out of interest to see how much the price had gone up.
Cheers Dave.

hi dave I think we are in the same boat m8t I got to have electric wheels to get about . always braking down ? . but I am 26 stone ? . on pc most time euro trucking 2 is as far as I get know . in pain 24/7 . but still manage to smile . can relate to most on truck net been there done that . had loads photos and film but unfortaly got evickted out of my home way back lost them all . due to m/e travel . wife didn’t pay depts and done a bunk . got home to nowt . can giggle at it now but heavey at the time . live and learn . truck drivers lot . -OTTO-

[harry_gill]

hiya,
Rough passage there “good buddy” but at least you keep smiling and that’s
a good thing, and yes the lorry driving game is a marriage wrecker I know
I’ve had three goes at it two disasters but third time lucky, I’ll look out for
your posts Otto and keep smiling.
thanks harry, long retired.

[norman_ingram]

Well Lads next Friday I am up at Richmond near scotch corner for a wedding, then on the 29th at Blackpool for four nights, a treat for my daughter & grandaughter. Don’t worry mum it’ all paid for, Katie would say.

[dave_the_renegade]

otto194242:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

grumpy old man:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Dave the Renegade:

harry_gill:

Norman Ingram:
Don’t worry about Harry, he goe’s mutton deaf when he wants too. Also harry I can’t remember when I was two sheets to the wind, when my first born was born, I went to the club and wet his head. Wife said are you alright, I said yes, but when I was walking home, the bloody hedges kept bumping into me!

hiya,
Oh’ Norm we go the whole hog up this neck of the woods and go THREE sheets to the wind
but we’ve got plenty of lighthouses around our coast to make sure we sail safely home.
thanks harry, long retired.

I expect after all these years Harry, you could find your way home blindfolded and blind drunk.
Cheers Dave.

hiya,
Yes Dave blind drunk and even on my hands and knees, and it would be even
easier if I ever learn how to use the bloody sat-nav I bought years ago, most
useless thing I’ve ever bought, well it’s a toss up really there’s several cameras
and other electrical gadgetry that I’ve wasted money on, thrown into a trunk
under the stairs where no doubt they will become obsolete and so will become
worthless, I really belong back in the early 20th century.
thanks harry, long retired.

I’ve never even thought of buying a sat-nav Harry. I have wasted a lot of money on other gadgets over the years. I have a radio scanner which cost a lot of money, which I have rarely used,also a telescope with a tripod etc which is very good, but half the time I can’t be arsed to set it up. Numerous other things over the years which are sat in a cupboard and forgotten about. I have purchased about ten new vehicles since 1972 ranging from £1,200 to £30,000 which have all depreciated and been sold for a small amount, except for the two vans which I still have.
None of these things are worth bugger all now, if I do purchase another vehicle in the future it certainly won’t be a new one.
Cheers Dave.

Tell me about it, £33500 my Jaguar cost (it was my retirement present to me because I deserved it ) Now, 9 years later, I’d be lucky to get £4000 for it.
It’s only done 54000 miles, no more cars for me, the Jaguar stays.

hiya,
I did ask the wife if I should buy a new car when I chucked it, she OK’d it saying
our youngest daughter deserved it and got it, I finished up with a three years old
ex-hire car which was quite quickly written off by a boy racer who miscued it on
a bend and took the drivers side completely off my “new” motor the wife was at
the helm at the time but thankfully totally unscathed but it did take a lot of time
trying to get her driving again, this was a problem because her job at that time
required her to drive around the elderly peoples houses, which for a while I was
having to do her chauffeuring and I was supposed to be retired.
thanks harry, long retired.

I was at the mobility roadshow at Telford today, its a big show held annually at two or three venues throughout the country.
All the big motor manufacturers have stands there plus loads of wheelchair companies and organisations from all the disability groups. I asked one of the guys on a stand how much a new electric tiedown to secure a wheelchair in a vehicle cost, he said £1,300 plus £190 for brackets and extra for the electric switch. I said forget it,they were £250 when I bought my sprinter, so when my transit comes to the end of the road, the one on there will be saved and used again. Bloody rip off merchants. Good job I was only asking out of interest to see how much the price had gone up.
Cheers Dave.

hi dave I think we are in the same boat m8t I got to have electric wheels to get about . always braking down ? . but I am 26 stone ? . on pc most time euro trucking 2 is as far as I get know . in pain 24/7 . but still manage to smile . can relate to most on truck net been there done that . had loads photos and film but unfortaly got evickted out of my home way back lost them all . due to m/e travel . wife didn’t pay depts and done a bunk . got home to nowt . can giggle at it now but heavey at the time . live and learn . truck drivers lot . -OTTO-

Hi OTTO,
As Harry says, sounds as if you have had your share of troubles, but the only way through is keep smiling and keep your chin up mate. There are quite a few on this forum with various problems.
Cheers Dave.

[dave_the_renegade]

Norman Ingram:
Well Lads next Friday I am up at Richmond near scotch corner for a wedding, then on the 29th at Blackpool for four nights, a treat for my daughter & grandaughter. Don’t worry mum it’ all paid for, Katie would say.

Hi Norm,
Just had week at Clacton on Sea, very lucky with the weather and it sounds good for a while. You should be OK for your family wedding and Blackpool trip.
Cheers Dave.

[grumpy_old_man]

Deleted.

[harry_gill]

grumpy old man:
Deleted.

hiya,
Nurse nurse quick our Brian’s gone off it.
thanks harry, long retired.

[norman_ingram]

Harry tell old Brian to rub sheep dung on his head, nothing will go near it,even the sun!

[dave_the_renegade]

Obviously Brian posted something then changed his mind, perhaps he doesn’t like weddings or Blackpool. I don’t like weddings, but Blackpool is OK.
Cheers Dave.

[harry_gill]

hiya,
Norm better off having extra time in Blackpool and give the wedding a miss,
you’ll get lumbered having to buy a present and it’s quiet in Richmond.
thanks harry, long retired.

[harry_gill]

hiya,
Norm better off having extra time in Blackpool and give the wedding a miss,
you’ll get lumbered having to buy a present and it’s quiet in Richmond.
thanks harry, long retired.

[dave_the_renegade]

harry_gill:
hiya,
Norm better off having extra time in Blackpool and give the wedding a miss,
you’ll get lumbered having to buy a present and it’s quiet in Richmond.
thanks harry, long retired.

Good advice Harry, glad to see you are coming around to my way of thinking.
Cheers Dave.

[harry_gill]

hiya,
Always open to good ideas Dave wish I’d heeded it back in 1957 when I got married
for the first time I well remember an elderly uncle advising me to buy a motorbike
and bugger off to Blackpool for the weekend of the wedding he added you’ll thank
me in the long run, I loathed him for not being more persuasive.
thanks harry, long retired.

[dave_the_renegade]

harry_gill:
hiya,
Always open to good ideas Dave wish I’d heeded it back in 1957 when I got married
for the first time I well remember an elderly uncle advising me to buy a motorbike
and bugger off to Blackpool for the weekend of the wedding he added you’ll thank
me in the long run, I loathed him for not being more persuasive.
thanks harry, long retired.

Your Uncle sounded as if he knew what perils lay ahead for you Harry. I think we have all taken no notice of good advice at one time or another.
Cheers Dave.