Luxurious compared to one of Bewick’s Atkis and better than working at t’mill or down 't pit.
It’s got no windows, or night heater CF.
It has the ultimate night heater. A Sentinel vertical boiler and fire, just set alarm to stoke it every few hours.
You’ve done none of them.
I’d obviously be over 120 years old by now if I had been unlucky enough to have only had the choice of working at t’mill or down’t pit in 1905.
I thought you were older than that, considering all the accolades, experience and qualifications you bestowed upon yourself, all before the turn of the millennium, when you chucked it all away, to pursue a new career in trade plate driving.
As a young lad I had to do 70 hours per week down the pit hauling 10 tons of coal all night then walk to school 12 miles away with no shoes over 6 feet tall snow drifts with only an orange for lunch mouldy bread for supper.
For Christmas we were only given a lump of coal.
As we had no bathroom the kids at school called me Chalky due to the dust from the mine.
The loo was 1 mile down the road in the neighbours for a wooden shack with no lock on the door, the loo paper was saw dust , or dock leaves as it wasn’t invented back then.
Stuar, don’t forget that you lived in a bomb crater.
Do you still work for KBR, my grandparents had a Luftwaffe bomb drop in their garden, the pilot was so low they could see his face in the cockpit?
They are probably still waiting to tip at Kwik Save Newport
Great we need some more coal for the boiler.