I had to take it to London to a custom warehouse, me and my mate got nearly £3000 BETWEEN US FOR THE RETURN LOADS FROM Damascus. 
Norman Ingram:
I had to take it to London to a custom warehouse, me and my mate got nearly £3000 BETWEEN US FOR THE RETURN LOADS FROM Damascus.
Those were the days Norm, you certainly had a good payday there, but I expect the taxman helped you to reduce it.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
I had to take it to London to a custom warehouse, me and my mate got nearly £3000 BETWEEN US FOR THE RETURN LOADS FROM Damascus.Those were the days Norm, you certainly had a good payday there, but I expect the taxman helped you to reduce it.
Cheers Dave.
Dave that was made for the firm,we just wanted to keep the job keep going as long as possible to collect our 100 per week and 12 pounds every night out.
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
I had to take it to London to a custom warehouse, me and my mate got nearly £3000 BETWEEN US FOR THE RETURN LOADS FROM Damascus.Those were the days Norm, you certainly had a good payday there, but I expect the taxman helped you to reduce it.
Cheers Dave.Dave that was made for the firm,we just wanted to keep the job keep going as long as possible to collect our 100 per week and 12 pounds every night out.
hiya,
Norm I don’t call £100 a week a big pay packet certainly not in those days
no way did I ever get £12 a night out but my wages were never less than a
hundred notes and of course I never needed twelve quid for a night out in
the UK so the going rate at the time was plenty for what I was doing true I
would be working overtime to achieve my “ton” but I know the job you was
doing wouldn’t be 40 hour weeks either.
thanks harry, long retired.
Well Harry I worked a full week when on BRS and I never got to half that amount in 1972/74, in 1969 top wage on BRS was £13.12s 6p, when I went on Bulwarks driving for Carlsberg in 1978 the flat rate was £35.00 for 40hour week, we was up with the petrol boys in earnings, when we had a rise, then the lorry drivers had their national strike, but we said to the union how on earth can you make our employers suffer when they are paying more than what you are asking for the other firms to pay. So they instructed pickets to leave Carlsberg alone.
Well the Carlsberg retirement party for the last Bulwark, Copenhagen driver Roland Wells, had good attendance, three drivers aged 82 turned up about seven around seventy and about the same in the late 60’s, quite a few are in Spain, a couple in USA, alas a few have died. But it was nice to see their faces light up, when talking about long ago.
Norman Ingram:
Well the Carlsberg retirement party for the last Bulwark, Copenhagen driver Roland Wells, had good attendance, three drivers aged 82 turned up about seven around seventy and about the same in the late 60’s, quite a few are in Spain, a couple in USA, alas a few have died. But it was nice to see their faces light up, when talking about long ago.
I’m a few years younger than you Norm. A couple of the older drivers from this area have passed away in the last couple of weeks. It makes you think, the characters that have gone over the last few years. Good blokes who worked hard and didn’t do any harm to anyone, also helped a lot of young drivers with advice and directions.
Cheers Dave.
I had not seen some of the drivers for over twenty years, we did have some good times, but time stands still for no one.
Norman Ingram:
I had not seen some of the drivers for over twenty years, we did have some good times,
Very true Norm,its good to see some old workmates that you haven’t seen for a long time.
Cheers Dave.
Hooray I am going overseas to France with Daughter and Husband and Granddaughter and my wife, I say husband for I think they will be wed by the time we go. Portsmouth to St Malo then Rennes to Nantes to EurocampSt Jean-De- Monts,LaYole. I am swotting up on my French, I have got a translator to renew my brain with the words I knew, my son-in-law to be, is always going on about the people we meet and I am able to say a few words to them, so far Greek , Turkish, Arabic, and German. I came I saw I Conquered, I said that at a bowls match, a mate said where dose that come from, I said I think that was from my schooling, the Roman period, I checked it was said by Julian Caesar, he never listen to a old man when he said " Beware of the Ides of March" for his friends stabbed him in the back!
Rotten lot of blokes you are, never even said I hope you enjoy your holiday, or kiss my a**e. 
for that I shall not bring any rock back from Nantes for you! 
Norman Ingram:
Rotten lot of blokes you are, never even said I hope you enjoy your holiday, or kiss my a**e.
hiya,
Nosser it goes without saying that we wish you and your family a nice break away,
and on your return a big lottery win so you can take the gang on that promised
cruise when you get back, I’ll pack my bag in anticipation.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
Rotten lot of blokes you are, never even said I hope you enjoy your holiday, or kiss my a**e.hiya,
Nosser it goes without saying that we wish you and your family a nice break away,
and on your return a big lottery win so you can take the gang on that promised
cruise when you get back, I’ll pack my bag in anticipation.
thanks harry, long retired.
How many birthdays a year does the old lad have Harry ? He does more touring than the queen, but I don’t begrudge him that. 
Happy birthday and holiday Norm.
Cheers Dave.
I have not passed away, Just my good wife said I was addicted to my laptop,so just to prove her wrong I kept off from it for a while. 
The other day she said can you find something on the net for me, I said what 
if I go on there I may become addicted. 
Norman Ingram:
I have not passed away,
I expect you have been busy planting the broad beans and other stuff Norm. Plant plenty of spuds, as a lot of the big growers in Herefordshire are selling their potato kit.
Cheers Dave.
No Dave the ground is still too soggy, but I will get some seed potatoes and put them in bags, I done well last year when crops was poor, one farm told my future son-in law when he got a sack not to boil too long as they soon go mushy.
We are lucky around here Norm, concerning potatoes. There are several farms that grow and sell good spuds,but with a lot packing the job in, I can see that prices will rise. We only have a small veg patch here,got plenty of room to have a big veg garden, which we had when my late Mother was younger. She was excellent at growing flowers and veg. I had a rotavator which saved a lot of heavy digging . I had our greenhouse which I bought 35 years ago taken down in the autumn,as it was getting to be unsafe if a pane of glass had got broken,our little dog would have been in danger. Hoping to have a new one up for the spring,ready to grow tomatoes and a few things in. Tracy is good at growing flowers and stuff in the greenhouse, also p;ants tubs and hanging baskets which all help to cheer the place up.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
We are lucky around here Norm, concerning potatoes. There are several farms that grow and sell good spuds,but with a lot packing the job in, I can see that prices will rise. We only have a small veg patch here,got plenty of room to have a big veg garden, which we had when my late Mother was younger. She was excellent at growing flowers and veg. I had a rotavator which saved a lot of heavy digging . I had our greenhouse which I bought 35 years ago taken down in the autumn,as it was getting to be unsafe if a pane of glass had got broken,our little dog would have been in danger. Hoping to have a new one up for the spring,ready to grow tomatoes and a few things in. Tracy is good at growing flowers and stuff in the greenhouse, also p;ants tubs and hanging baskets which all help to cheer the place up.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
The only thing I plant in my fair acre (well quite a bit less really) is my sunlounger
after I’ve raked the nice thick covering of gravel nice and level so I don’t roll off, I
might just spill a nice wee dram of single malt and that would never do, my only
gardening is a couple of containers which an old chap across the street plants up
for me, our daughter phoned a little while back asking if I had a garden spade she
could borrow, so I emptied the contents of the greenhouse into the boot of my car
delivered them very quickly with the direction they must never be returned to me
they are instruments of torture and should she not require them further to place
them in the council skip which she conveniently has to come past on the way to our
house, now my total kit consists of a couple of screwdrivers a little hammer and a
pair of pliers if I search hard enough there might be a little shifting spanner still in
the shed I think it fell down behind the bench when I removed the vice which was
designated to the skip.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
We are lucky around here Norm, concerning potatoes. There are several farms that grow and sell good spuds,but with a lot packing the job in, I can see that prices will rise. We only have a small veg patch here,got plenty of room to have a big veg garden, which we had when my late Mother was younger. She was excellent at growing flowers and veg. I had a rotavator which saved a lot of heavy digging . I had our greenhouse which I bought 35 years ago taken down in the autumn,as it was getting to be unsafe if a pane of glass had got broken,our little dog would have been in danger. Hoping to have a new one up for the spring,ready to grow tomatoes and a few things in. Tracy is good at growing flowers and stuff in the greenhouse, also p;ants tubs and hanging baskets which all help to cheer the place up.
Cheers Dave.hiya,
The only thing I plant in my fair acre (well quite a bit less really) is my sunlounger
after I’ve raked the nice thick covering of gravel nice and level so I don’t roll off, I
might just spill a nice wee dram of single malt and that would never do, my only
gardening is a couple of containers which an old chap across the street plants up
for me, our daughter phoned a little while back asking if I had a garden spade she
could borrow, so I emptied the contents of the greenhouse into the boot of my car
delivered them very quickly with the direction they must never be returned to me
they are instruments of torture and should she not require them further to place
them in the council skip which she conveniently has to come past on the way to our
house, now my total kit consists of a couple of screwdrivers a little hammer and a
pair of pliers if I search hard enough there might be a little shifting spanner still in
the shed I think it fell down behind the bench when I removed the vice which was
designated to the skip.
thanks harry, long retired.
Now Harry I don’t believe that you haven’t got a vice, not after telling us of all your escapades over the years.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Vice in the singular no, vices in the plural many.
thanks harry, long retired.