Tea?

[classic33]

Still have to level the 'stepping stones' we've placed them on....

I have eaten so many apples
Did a couple of days works and got offered a job with a caravan to stay in, I almost stayed but I was still a yunc..
I headed home, did some more wandering work, spent the day (Fair Saturday) in a fading North Ayrshire holiday resort and came home 6 years later....
well, what was home before I went out for the day..
if I hadn't met the future Mrs M, I would more likely still be there....
In 78 and 79, spent alternate weekends in Glencoe in a 2 man tent (2 men just fitted inside it) but got access to climbing bothy, the tent was much warmer tbh..
those were the days....
off to watch the Reds and Blues (NI)


Hose sorry now?


I'll get my coat

Still!
How long have you been "working on it" now, and still not finished.

Trying a shortcut for yer apple juice by removing a few of the steps. It'll not taste as nice.
Were they all eaten today?
You should have stayed a bit longer. Who knows where it might have lead, you could have gone back home anytime.
You ever try any of the hiring fairs?
All that wandering, looking for work, and you end up act working on them, odd how things work out.
Who knows where you'd be now...
I once pitched a small tent inside a bothy, cut out the breeze blowing through.
They were and I doubt we'll see their likes again.
Who's yer money on?

T'weren't too bad. Just enough to dampen things.

Waterproof, warm?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Good morning
Gave my right knee a tweak lifting a sideboard yesterday..
poor auld Boab
Walking 'bout looking for Marshall Dillon

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Still!
How long have you been "working on it" now, and still not finished.

Trying a shortcut for yer apple juice by removing a few of the steps. It'll not taste as nice.
Were they all eaten today?
You should have stayed a bit longer. Who knows where it might have lead, you could have gone back home anytime.
You ever try any of the hiring fairs?
All that wandering, looking for work, and you end up act working on them, odd how things work out.
Who knows where you'd be now...
I once pitched a small tent inside a bothy, cut out the breeze blowing through.
They were and I doubt we'll see their likes again.
Who's yer money on?

T'weren't too bad. Just enough to dampen things.

Waterproof, warm?

Funny enough...
I was a MacAlpine Fusilier in 75-76....
and after that some of the lads were going up to a jobs thing in Glasgow..
BIG sign, concrete finishers (Germany) urgently wanted.
I headed over and found out the details , got a phone number but on talking to some blokes who had recently been there working, I was given the heads-up about dodgy agents..
advised only take if the company paid me but this offer was they paid the agent and he paid you..
so sod it as I'd picked another temp contract meantime..
The almost year I worked on concrete oil rig building, I was registered as a steel fixer and a concrete finisher as national registers were being created to keep the cowboy 'I can do that' mob out..
I did have an offer to head NW to another yard, Kishorn but I eventually met someone(I wonder who) and then back to my 'old' home.
I sometime wonder how it all could have turned out.

Funny story about the agent thing..
Couple of the lads got done two weeks in a row with their agent not turning up, obviously no wages so decided to fly back to London first.
Who was sitting on the plane ?
aye, the agent.
Marched straight to the nearest bank he was.....

 

[classic33]

Good morning
Gave my right knee a tweak lifting a sideboard yesterday..
poor auld Boab
Walking 'bout looking for Marshall Dillon

Owdo
Sideboard okay, no damage done to it?
You'll heal, eventually. In the meantime I suggest a lot of rest, stay off the damaged leg as much as possible.
You squaring up for a gunfight?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Owdo
Sideboard okay, no damage done to it?
You'll heal, eventually. In the meantime I suggest a lot of rest, stay off the damaged leg as much as possible.
You squaring up for a gunfight?

Yeah, it is solid wood..
I've someone arranged to move the bleedin' thing.
yes, one of those..
I've been frugal with the walking...

The Towers corral.....
I remember reading about gunslingers only being successful by being able to hold the gun up steady, weight came into it...
not a gun fan.

 

[classic33]

Funny enough...
I was a MacAlpine Fusilier in 75-76....
and after that some of the lads were going up to a jobs thing in Glasgow..
BIG sign, concrete finishers (Germany) urgently wanted.
I headed over and found out the details , got a phone number but on talking to some blokes who had recently been there working, I was given the heads-up about dodgy agents..
advised only take if the company paid me but this offer was they paid the agent and he paid you..
so sod it as I'd picked another temp contract meantime..
The almost year I worked on concrete oil rig building, I was registered as a steel fixer and a concrete finisher as national registers were being created to keep the cowboy 'I can do that' mob out..
I did have an offer to head NW to another yard, Kishorn but I eventually met someone(I wonder who) and then back to my 'old' home.
I sometime wonder how it all could have turned out.

Funny story about the agent thing..
Couple of the lads got done two weeks in a row with their agent not turning up, obviously no wages so decided to fly back to London first.
Who was sitting on the plane ?
aye, the agent.
Marched straight to the nearest bank he was.....

Similar here. Worked on a couple of then major projects around these parts. In Bradford, Leeds and home town. Just as they were reshaping the County.
They don't use manual labour on sites these days, and I don't drive.
Not on not getting what the agent was getting paid for having you on site.
Wouldn't a concrete oil rig just sink?
All roads lead to home...
Just have to wonder, too late now. Spilt milk and all that...

They didn't offer to give him a lift, save him the effort of walking there.
They all got off the plane as one big happy group, agent included.

 

[simongt]

MacAlpine Fusilier

McAlpine went by motor car,
the foreman went by train.
But Paddy used his own two legs
and got there all the same.

 

[classic33]

Yeah, it is solid wood..
I've someone arranged to move the bleedin' thing.
yes, one of those..
I've been frugal with the walking...

The Towers corral.....
I remember reading about gunslingers only being successful by being able to hold the gun up steady, weight came into it...
not a gun fan.

At least you've no need to go shopping for a replacement.
Number one son?
Park yerssen on a chair, elevate the leg for the night.

Got that bad round your neck o'woods.
Quicker on the draw these days as well, so the old timers wouldn't stand a chance.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

McAlpine went by motor car,
the foreman went by train.
But Paddy used his own two legs
and got there all the same.

I commuted by ferry
Bus, ferry, work, ferry, bus, pub, shank's pony..
rinse repeat
It was a 12 hour day, just getting there and back to the pub.
16 hour plus if it was a 'slip' continuous pour
BUT the money?
WOW for the '70s......

 

[Bobby Mhor]

At least you've no need to go shopping for a replacement.
Number one son?
Park yerssen on a chair, elevate the leg for the night.

Got that bad round your neck o'woods.
Quicker on the draw these days as well, so the old timers wouldn't stand a chance.

Knees gowping..
Nowhere I can put the coffee machine up here.
I'm reduced to water..
one bottle of beer in the fridge..
It's hell, I tell ya..

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Morning all
Sun streaming through the blinds...
can't say pesky though..

 

[classic33]

I commuted by ferry
Bus, ferry, work, ferry, bus, pub, shank's pony..
rinse repeat
It was a 12 hour day, just getting there and back to the pub.
16 hour plus if it was a 'slip' continuous pour
BUT the money?
WOW for the '70s......

Sounds like the everday commute to work nowadays.
You were ahead of the rest of us back then.
Pay was high, but so were the risks to yer health. Not many could stick at it for long.
Would you do it again?

 

[classic33]

Knees gowping..
Nowhere I can put the coffee machine up here.
I'm reduced to water..
one bottle of beer in the fridge..
It's hell, I tell ya..

Not settling then.
No coffee, reduced to water AND only the one bottle of beer in the fridge.
How are you surviving?

 

[classic33]

Morning all
Sun streaming through the blinds...
can't say pesky though..

Owdo
No sun here, either through the blinds or curtains.
One of those words you have trouble with every now and then?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Sounds like the everday commute to work nowadays.
You were ahead of the rest of us back then.
Pay was high, but so were the risks to yer health. Not many could stick at it for long.
Would you do it again?

Not at my age..
work wasn't that hard tbf..
in my early 20s

One I worked on..

Not settling then.
No coffee, reduced to water AND only the one bottle of beer in the fridge.
How are you surviving?

Barely...
youngest Mhor brought chocolate cake..
stiff upper lip needed

Owdo
No sun here, either through the blinds or curtains.
One of those words you have trouble with every now and then?

We had one dollop of hailstones, a brief flurry of yohoho but a pleasant day altogether..