Tea?

[Bobby Mhor]

So an area cleared to improve it. Much the same as anywhere else that went through similar.
Back before you set off on your temporary holiday camp job.
You ran away with the fair! No circus's round your way. Get everything down as quick as possible ready for moving on...
Would Mrs M mind you posting that... Don't think Edinburgh would have suited you, or you it. Only my opinion though, west coast boy moves to east coast town...
Nay lad, back then life meant life.

You could have been a lumberjack, wrestling grizzly bears for fun!

Bear wrestling? non problemo
Definitely not the M.Python version (except at weekends)
I eventually ran away, it was a bad move.
I'd been doing weekend work for over a year, I enjoyed that bit.
You'd be impressed and how small a space they fitted everything and dropped it to the ground

Happy with what eventually happened (a bit obvious)
I'd spent lots of time in Edinburgh,
I'm now only 34.3 miles away if that's away? (by road) 28.89 miles by crow flight.....
No Circus, by the way, I never agreed with them or safari parks....

Funnily, a Butlins wasn't that far away..
I'd gone on a coach trip on a day pass and wasn't impressed. .circa '67
I could see the great idea behind it, a week maybe two away from grimy cities and work...
before the great summer migrations by aluminium 'birds'..
'The tea doesn't taste the same, the food is all foreign muck, I'd the runs from the day we landed and left'....
Those were the days...
Ironic now when the alleged food like Tikka Masala / Balti is the new national dish

 

[classic33]

Morning all
Cold start plus light rain, hopefully not THAT later

Owdo
Warmer than yesterday here with the sun threatening to put in an appearance.
Out in't garden later...

 

[classic33]

Bear wrestling? non problemo
Definitely not the M.Python version (except at weekends)
I eventually ran away, it was a bad move.
I'd been doing weekend work for over a year, I enjoyed that bit.
You'd be impressed and how small a space they fitted everything and dropped it to the ground

Happy with what eventually happened (a bit obvious)
I'd spent lots of time in Edinburgh,
I'm now only 34.3 miles away if that's away? (by road) 28.89 miles by crow flight.....
No Circus, by the way, I never agreed with them or safari parks....

Funnily, a Butlins wasn't that far away..
I'd gone on a coach trip on a day pass and wasn't impressed. .circa '67
I could see the great idea behind it, a week maybe two away from grimy cities and work...
before the great summer migrations by aluminium 'birds'..
'The tea doesn't taste the same, the food is all foreign muck, I'd the runs from the day we landed and left'....
Those were the days...
Ironic now when the alleged food like Tikka Masala / Balti is the new national dish

You've no worries about the bear wrestling. Maybe a new line of work is calling.
Sleeping all night not what your style.
You ran away from the fair that you ran away to?
They make them so they take up as little space as possible, and so as not to qualify as an abnormal load..

Kinda shows you're happy with what happened.
And they still let you back in?
But Glaswegian blood in Edinburgh. It'd be wanting to head westwards every time you laid down.
You could have done yer bear wrestling there.

Didn't think they were that far north back then.
Wasn't a mystery tour where you got taken round your own area were it.
Closest I've been would be a caravan site near Great Yarmouth.
Not flown in years, "Knee high to a grasshopper" the last time.
The water is different anyway, so the tea won't taste the same. Yer in foreign parts, the food int foreign.
The good old days...
No longer neeps an tatties?
But there made here, to traditional english recipes not foreign ones.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

You've no worries about the bear wrestling. Maybe a new line of work is calling.
Sleeping all night not what your style.
You ran away from the fair that you ran away to?
They make them so they take up as little space as possible, and so as not to qualify as an abnormal load..

Kinda shows you're happy with what happened.
And they still let you back in?
But Glaswegian blood in Edinburgh. It'd be wanting to head westwards every time you laid down.
You could have done yer bear wrestling there.

Didn't think they were that far north back then.
Wasn't a mystery tour where you got taken round your own area were it.
Closest I've been would be a caravan site near Great Yarmouth.
Not flown in years, "Knee high to a grasshopper" the last time.
The water is different anyway, so the tea won't taste the same. Yer in foreign parts, the food int foreign.
The good old days...
No longer neeps an tatties?
But there made here, to traditional english recipes not foreign ones.

Eh, I'm a Greenoakian born and bred..
not a weegie....

I left the fair on very good terms,
they were great employers, good payers as well.
I did go back to weekend working again until a lifestyle change...
a job with lots of OT....

Ayr....was the redcoat paradise..
caravan-type park now, no doubt lodges too.
Not far from the Electric Brae...google is your friend there.
I assume it was with Air Wright you flew with (ps they weren't the first).
There was some shady stuff behind early aviators'
Talking about flight, printed myself a very flimsy one-piece glider, it failed badly inside so I will try outside at some point.


I don't fly now so Mrs M doesn't see the sunshine although I've been dumped more than a few times..
Pedantic old git, I used what was common feedback to early tour companies.
Love neeps (swede), my fave veggie or might be proper cooked sprouts.
I hate soggy sprouts....

 

[classic33]

Eh, I'm a Greenoakian born and bred..
not a weegie....

I left the fair on very good terms,
they were great employers, good payers as well.
I did go back to weekend working again until a lifestyle change...
a job with lots of OT....

Ayr....was the redcoat paradise..
caravan-type park now, no doubt lodges too.
Not far from the Electric Brae...google is your friend there.
I assume it was with Air Wright you flew with (ps they weren't the first).
There was some shady stuff behind early aviators'
Talking about flight, printed myself a very flimsy one-piece glider, it failed badly inside so I will try outside at some point.


I don't fly now so Mrs M doesn't see the sunshine although I've been dumped more than a few times..
Pedantic old git, I used what was common feedback to early tour companies.
Love neeps (swede), my fave veggie or might be proper cooked sprouts.
I hate soggy sprouts....

I thought you were a Weegie.

Yours or theirs...
Paid cash?
Weekend work at the fairground would have been interesting.
Bet you took any OT they offered as well.

East Riding of Yorkshire down these parts.
With one or two seaside resorts no longer there. Swallowed by the North Sea.
No engine required to go uphill. Similar hill in Ireland.
Nay, definitely flew inside.
Always shady goings on with anything new.
Did it print correctly?

You don't fly, Mrs M doesn't sail. yer landlocked!!
I've found that if the feedback was honest, they didn't like it. Those higher up had opinions.
Love sprouts but the after effects?
What's wrong with soggy sprouts.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

I thought you were a Weegie.

Yours or theirs...
Paid cash?
Weekend work at the fairground would have been interesting.
Bet you took any OT they offered as well.

East Riding of Yorkshire down these parts.
With one or two seaside resorts no longer there. Swallowed by the North Sea.
No engine required to go uphill. Similar hill in Ireland.
Nay, definitely flew inside.
Always shady goings on with anything new.
Did it print correctly?

You don't fly, Mrs M doesn't sail. yer landlocked!!
I've found that if the feedback was honest, they didn't like it. Those higher up had opinions.
Love sprouts but the after effects?
What's wrong with soggy sprouts.

I spent the first 66 years of my life looking each morning at the River Clyde..
Sadly the Forth or Carron hasn't the same appeal...

It was, train away from PG after Fri work, (finished at 4.00)
I could make most of the venues in two hours,
plus on a Sat night if they closed at 22.00 ( as was the law), if near a station I could get home that night as the last train left Weegie just after midnight, breakdowns on Sunday meant a possible run nearer home. Cash in hand(good), obviously worth the hassle, travel cost paid as well.
I split between the dodgems, speedway, waltzers and anywhere if needed.
Pay was 6 spot a night, 6 for a breakdown plus travel and food expenses...I was earning 22 a 40 hour week.
Mind you only time off I had mon- thur evening but Mon and Wed were option work to 8 nights..
I had a local garage job before that..
Fair was more fun..
One of the full time was a stay in the fading seaside resort and I'd local digs for the week so meeting the landlady on my day visit laid (I ended up camping on the shore for 10 days, I'd met two blokes I was in school with)a chance meeting with the lady and the rest was a move down...it started everything off about how I ended up here (via)

They are soggy, I hate soggy veg esp sprouts...
I like new potatoes but not mashed as they can be soggy, None of these ubiquitous royals, it has to be Ayrshires..

 

[classic33]

I spent the first 66 years of my life looking each morning at the River Clyde..
Sadly the Forth or Carron hasn't the same appeal...

It was, train away from PG after Fri work, (finished at 4.00)
I could make most of the venues in two hours,
plus on a Sat night if they closed at 22.00 ( as was the law), if near a station I could get home that night as the last train left Weegie just after midnight, breakdowns on Sunday meant a possible run nearer home. Cash in hand(good), obviously worth the hassle, travel cost paid as well.
I split between the dodgems, speedway, waltzers and anywhere if needed.
Pay was 6 spot a night, 6 for a breakdown plus travel and food expenses...I was earning 22 a 40 hour week.
Mind you only time off I had mon- thur evening but Mon and Wed were option work to 8 nights..
I had a local garage job before that..
Fair was more fun..
One of the full time was a stay in the fading seaside resort and I'd local digs for the week so meeting the landlady on my day visit laid (I ended up camping on the shore for 10 days, I'd met two blokes I was in school with)a chance meeting with the lady and the rest was a move down...it started everything off about how I ended up here (via)

They are soggy, I hate soggy veg esp sprouts...
I like new potatoes but not mashed as they can be soggy, None of these ubiquitous royals, it has to be Ayrshires..

Not summat you forget.
No hideouts for you on the Forth or Carron.

Would you get as far now in the same time, by train, in two hours.
22:00, they're just getting going at that time now.
You the one that used to spin the waltzer fast back then.
Decent money back then, and with free food as well.
Garage work not a patch on the fair work. Did you get free food at the garage?
Seaside resort has long since faded no doubt. Like so many from back then.
You'd digs, but ended up camping on the seashore. Yer landlady wasn't selling shells on there were she...

Fair enough...
Anyone who mashes new spuds, whatever variety, deserves a clip round 'lughole. What else in Scotland.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Morning all
Just above freezing

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Not summat you forget.
No hideouts for you on the Forth or Carron.

Would you get as far now in the same time, by train, in two hours.
22:00, they're just getting going at that time now.
You the one that used to spin the waltzer fast back then.
Decent money back then, and with free food as well.
Garage work not a patch on the fair work. Did you get free food at the garage?
Seaside resort has long since faded no doubt. Like so many from back then.
You'd digs, but ended up camping on the seashore. Yer landlady wasn't selling shells on there were she...

Fair enough...
Anyone who mashes new spuds, whatever variety, deserves a clip round 'lughole. What else in Scotland.

Surprisingly yes...
middle of part of central Jockland..
depends on the type of leaves or snow on the line...

Amazing how little effort it took to spin those things..
It was fun, I washed them out a lot.....

Garage was good, 6 galls of 4 star for a quid....
19/- for 2 star, lots of pink stamps and local...
only car related items sold...

I bumped into her later in the week outside a shop, funnily my first job in the rapidly fading holiday resort, store boy.. I was 17

 

[classic33]

Morning all
Just above freezing

Owdo
That's okay then.

 

[classic33]

Surprisingly yes...
middle of part of central Jockland..
depends on the type of leaves or snow on the line...

Amazing how little effort it took to spin those things..
It was fun, I washed them out a lot.....

Garage was good, 6 galls of 4 star for a quid....
19/- for 2 star, lots of pink stamps and local...
only car related items sold...

I bumped into her later in the week outside a shop, funnily my first job in the rapidly fading holiday resort, store boy.. I was 17

Yer lucky then.
Not only leaves and snow down these parts. We have rain and dandelion clocks that can stop some trains.

Whenever I've seen them being spun it's never taken much.
Rather you than me...

Try and spend the same amount these days on petrol.
You were ready to top up the tanks of those that drove up to the pumps. Clean the windscreen and offering to check the air in the tyres for them as well.
A proper garage then, not one where you could get something for the journey.

She gave you that odd look no doubt, you not being local and all that. Store boy to DJ, quite a career advancement on your part.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Owdo
That's okay then.

Yer lucky then.
Not only leaves and snow down these parts. We have rain and dandelion clocks that can stop some trains.

Whenever I've seen them being spun it's never taken much.
Rather you than me...

Try and spend the same amount these days on petrol.
You were ready to top up the tanks of those that drove up to the pumps. Clean the windscreen and offering to check the air in the tyres for them as well.
A proper garage then, not one where you could get something for the journey.

She gave you that odd look no doubt, you not being local and all that. Store boy to DJ, quite a career advancement on your part.

A squirt of RedEX was 4d, not p but d LOL
The good old days..
Bottle of ginger 1/3d, fish supper 1/10d, pint the same...

Store boy was only until I turned 18..
Cost too much for the wages apparently after 18..
The manager wasn't upfront with me and tried to punt me for a nefarious reason just the week before I turned 18..
Called him out and exacted my revenge in a devasting way...
Council roads next one...dj'ed from 73-76, two places, £2 a night then big money, £5 a night
Only chucked it by heading back to home base....

Off today on the Coastal road trail of Fife..
ended up in St Andrews then a wibbly wobbly way back home....
a fair journey I'd say..

Got a text just outside of St Andrews, Toodles and her gang had passed us and spotted us..
going oppo direction....

I did eventually do all the training for a greenkeeper....
according to cooncil records, I can set up lane closures and coning of A roads and below, I can operate a wheely bin thing on bin motors, I can use weedkiller near water amongst many other obscure 'I can do' things they gave me paper accreditation.
I should have asked for a copy of my records when retiring.

 

[classic33]

A squirt of RedEX was 4d, not p but d LOL
The good old days..
Bottle of ginger 1/3d, fish supper 1/10d, pint the same...

Store boy was only until I turned 18..
Cost too much for the wages apparently after 18..
The manager wasn't upfront with me and tried to punt me for a nefarious reason just the week before I turned 18..
Called him out and exacted my revenge in a devasting way...
Council roads next one...dj'ed from 73-76, two places, £2 a night then big money, £5 a night
Only chucked it by heading back to home base....

Off today on the Coastal road trail of Fife..
ended up in St Andrews then a wibbly wobbly way back home....
a fair journey I'd say..

Got a text just outside of St Andrews, Toodles and her gang had passed us and spotted us..
going oppo direction....

I did eventually do all the training for a greenkeeper....
according to cooncil records, I can set up lane closures and coning of A roads and below, I can operate a wheely bin thing on bin motors, I can use weedkiller near water amongst many other obscure 'I can do' things they gave me paper accreditation.
I should have asked for a copy of my records when retiring.

They had it as RedEx back then. Thought that were a more modern name due to a drink of a similar name on the market.
You can still work those prices out?

Start paying NI at 18, and tax. Somethings will never change. You cost them too much, they'll drop you quick enough. Even if it's not your fault.
Were it worth it is the only question. It wasn't as though you'd have been there much longer for him to do anything else.
McAlpine Fusilier. Ever think of going for gangerman.
You landed on yer feet with yer DJing. Loaded whilst doing it I bet.
You were asked to lead the dancing as well as spinning the records.

Were that on two wheels or in four?
Did they not say "Hi" as they passed you, or just wave leaving you wondering who they were.

Trained greenkeeper, and now it's going all artifical. Could you offer yer expertise to any clubs whilst yer in their 19th hole.
Household wheelie bins. Not seen anything for single bins that size.
You didn't receive any certification that you were now able to do the jobs?
Would they have had a record of everything though.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

They had it as RedEx back then. Thought that was a more modern name due to a drink of a similar name on the market.
You can still work those prices out?

Start paying NI at 18, and tax. Somethings will never change. You cost them too much, they'll drop you quick enough. Even if it's not your fault.
Were it worth it is the only question. It wasn't as though you'd have been there much longer for him to do anything else.
McAlpine Fusilier. Ever think of going for gangerman.
You landed on yer feet with yer DJing. Loaded whilst doing it I bet.
You were asked to lead the dancing as well as spinning the records.

Were that on two wheels or in four?
Did they not say "Hi" as they passed you, or just wave leaving you wondering who they were.

Trained greenkeeper, and now it's going all artifical. Could you offer yer expertise to any clubs whilst yer in their 19th hole.
Household wheelie bins. Not seen anything for single bins that size.
You didn't receive any certification that you were now able to do the jobs?
Would they have had a record of everything though.

I'm well retired, can't remember if it is 9 or 10 years this March.
Can't tell myself what to do , never mind anything else...
Stopped to watch a bowls tie at bowling green a couple of mile away, got chatting, mentioned I'd played a bit, commented on the green being what looked like badly watered, man asked how do you know that..
I made the mistake of saying why
'Looking for new members' he said and we have a bar and the beer is cheap, said 'No, thanks' and escaped..
the worst thing about looking after a bowling green is the constant greeting bowlers, never their fault they played the wrong hand etc, I was glad to get away from it, always some plonka who knows everything......
Funny thing the day the bit of paper says I was now qualified to work the back of the bin motor, I was on holiday.
Like the day I was a Fusilier, working with steel fixers, I got enlisted on a national list of qualified steel fixers, you had to be on this list to be employed as a fixer.
The women, the beer and the craic.....
I never came from the land of eggs and bacon.. I'm a 16th..possible a 32nd..

Did you send the peloton down the wrong route today in the Algarve? what a way to void an entire stage.
Mrs M commented to me in 198? as we lay on the beach in Armaceo(?) de Pera, 'Be good to retire here, eh?'
She gets reminded of that every time she moans about the WX....

 

[classic33]

I'm well retired, can't remember if it is 9 or 10 years this March.
Can't tell myself what to do , never mind anything else...
Stopped to watch a bowls tie at bowling green a couple of mile away, got chatting, mentioned I'd played a bit, commented on the green being what looked like badly watered, man asked how do you know that..
I made the mistake of saying why
'Looking for new members' he said and we have a bar and the beer is cheap, said 'No, thanks' and escaped..
the worst thing about looking after a bowling green is the constant greeting bowlers, never their fault they played the wrong hand etc, I was glad to get away from it, always some plonka who knows everything......
Funny thing the day the bit of paper says I was now qualified to work the back of the bin motor, I was on holiday.
Like the day I was a Fusilier, working with steel fixers, I got enlisted on a national list of qualified steel fixers, you had to be on this list to be employed as a fixer.
The women, the beer and the craic.....
I never came from the land of eggs and bacon.. I'm a 16th..possible a 32nd..

Did you send the peloton down the wrong route today in the Algarve? what a way to void an entire stage.
Mrs M commented to me in 198? as we lay on the beach in Armaceo(?) de Pera, 'Be good to retire here, eh?'
She gets reminded of that every time she moans about the WX....

Say nine, it's a nice round number.
You never know, or did you try and find out!
Forgot about bowling, crown green. There’s very few of the ones that were around these parts twenty years ago still recognisable as bowling greens. Golf greens sprang to mind first, and they're smaller.
You should have said you'd give them a trial period.
The piece of paper, qualifying you to work at the back end, could have come after you'd said you were moving on to pastures new.
Would you go back for the women, the beer and the cricket, let someone else do the work.
First generation Tyke missen. Born n'bred in Yorkshire, buttered in Ireland.

Not guilty, I promise. Who had won before they voided the stage.
There's still time to get there. Enjoy some sunny weather. Would Toodles be joining you?
Yer risking it, reminding her.?