Harry. If you are going for a haircut Don,t you need to set off really early so you can get back home for tea?
be a great idea charlie.i could have a few cans and they could drive.
Haircuts are on a strict six month maintenance rota .Short…long,then short again. I can’t stand the patronizing ,nosy UK barbers. ( "Come along young man " ) Say the word ‘Thailand’ & they begin flexing & whooping like monkeys on sildenafil citrate,although none of them have ever been there. I’ve banned them. 
lets be honest guys.
has anyone any hair left?[of us older continental vets]
greg50:
lets be honest guys.
has anyone any hair left?[of us older continental vets]
Yes 
, I go 4 times a year to the sweet young thing, Angelique, (yes, really ) who trims my locks (‘pas trôp court comme d’habitude, David?’) and, although knowing the answer is always in the negative, asks if she can do the beard and eyebrows too. 
Must admit it is a trifle inconvenient though when the eyebrows get tangled with the lashes and I either can’t blink or to do so looks like I am dipping the forelock. 
Being grumpy is a sure sign of entering the Golden Years .
( Vinegar Years! )
i suspect a little bragging going on here guys.
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greg50:
i did 258 kms today.
one hit.
never stopped.
i swear.
made it back to the computer tonite.
got a big day tomorrow.
400 kms,might bring a second driver in case i get tired.
greg50:
lets be honest guys.
has anyone any hair left?[of us older continental vets]
Yup! Last haircut cost me tuppence three farthing and I thought that expensive, so now hair is 3/4 way down my back and beard is a decent half yard long, fortunately down the front.
harry:
charlie one Its ‘elevation facility’ these days Chaz.
I thought Charlie was talking stairlifts - not ■■■■■■!
Now then Pop,those viagras arn,t all they are cracked up to be.Last Saturday My wife made me the kind of offer which was impossible to refuse.Went roundNext door and bought five.Never having taken any I wasn,t sure about them so I took all five.Only four worked.
charlie one:
Now then Pop,those viagras arn,t all they are cracked up to be.Last Saturday My wife made me the kind of offer which was impossible to refuse.Went roundNext door and bought five.Never having taken any I wasn,t sure about them so I took all five.Only four worked.
You took all 5? Good God man, have you no consideration for the energy you use? I cut mine in half these days!
I most certainly will. I have got over them now,and should be allowed out of bed tomorrow.Most puzzled.45 years ago did not need any. What went wrong? Any ideas?
charlie one:
I most certainly will. I have got over them now,and should be allowed out of bed tomorrow.Most puzzled.45 years ago did not need any. What went wrong? Any ideas?
I gave up on ideas when it became apparent to all but me that the older I got the less sense they made! I can’t help wondering if doing it standing up in a Leyland probably wasn’t a wise move though.
Yes the good old days. 
and 
would i go back to the good old days yes i would.
Rebuilding the iron curtain wall. 
would help our industry today
There were a lot of good things 20 years ago on the international routes and a lot of bad things also,luckily i still do the international work as the companies we work with do not want the east european companys for the type of work we do (fish), and i do get bored with Boulogne sur Mer and Brittany, but luckily the lads we run with are all good company there is about 30 lads doing the job so we are never on our own,we have a odd load to Spain now and again but the backloads are crap rates so we avoid the Spanish unless we have a good rated backload organised.
One of the good things years ago was the lads you met on route there would allways be someone going the same direction and useing the same waterholes, i miss the comradeship and help you would get from these lads who are now like me are getting on a bit.
Then there were a lot of pish heads doing the job who i used to avoid by sitting with the locals and speaking there lingo,it was sad i suppose but they got the brits a bad name in a lot of restaurants and truckstops,later a lot of brit drivers started useing bent credit cards for the peages and the restaurants so no where would take a uk credit card for a while.
One of the bad things in those days which i do not miss is the lack of sleep with the meat and the fish to southern europe,my job today is totaly legal which is nice, i once had to pick a drivers belongings up take home to his widow which was a difficult thing to do,we used to leave Ireland sat am to deliver to Italy or Spain usually on a sun night then loaded and tipped in the uk and back home by thursday morning,sadly i can name a few lads that have been killed in those days.
Travelling to Italy 18 month ago i counted on one hand the number of British trucks on route that i met.
No Pop I was not standing up in a Leyland. I was standing up against a Leyland.A subtle difference do you not think?
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The only thing I miss about the old days is waking up with my forehaed frozen to the windscreen
What were you doing sleeping across the dash? Or is that too personal?