Maybe he went on holiday and forgot to tell us he was going
Driver-Once-More:
Maybe he went on holiday and forgot to tell us he was going
Hiya,
Still here alive and kicking, just been doing a bit of work around the house
before it crumbles into oblivion it’s still ongoing but there’s no rush that is
as far as I’m concerned the lady of the house as other ideas of course in her
eyes everything should be started today and should have been completed
by yesterday, normal service is about to be resumed ASAP.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Driver-Once-More:
Maybe he went on holiday and forgot to tell us he was goingHiya,
Still here alive and kicking, just been doing a bit of work around the house
before it crumbles into oblivion it’s still ongoing but there’s no rush that is
as far as I’m concerned the lady of the house as other ideas of course in her
eyes everything should be started today and should have been completed
by yesterday, normal service is about to be resumed ASAP.
thanks harry, long retired.
Correct me if I’m wrong Harry, but I thought all your tools had been thrown in the skip 
Good to see you back.
Cheers Dave.
Hello Harry and Lads, I also am breathing, 
Just! Had that bug in January, it left me with no stength, I have no seeds in growth, just felt knackered. But now I feel my “MOJO” has returned. Wife has been sad, lost two old mates in the space of a month, one we saw buried on 30th Jan, the other is cremated on the 24th of this month. My old mate Bagdad Bill ( Bill Thomas) reckons he looks like Steve Mc Queen, I asked him if he had looked in the mirror lately or go to Specsavers, he is 83years old. Well I tell you this, because I got a phone call from his daughter Karen. It went like this, hello Karen my love, what can I do for you, she replied dad went down under and had a accident and broke his hip and is feeling sorry for his self and wants your mobile number so he can text you, he is in Brisbane Hospital. I gave my number, I felt like saying I would visit him if he paid my fare. 
Norman Ingram:
Hello Harry and Lads, I also am breathing,
Good to see you back Norm, sorry to hear of your troubles. I was at a funeral of an old mate last Friday. He was in the same situation as me, was one of the first paralympians back in the 1970’s. There were ten of us there in chairs, a bit like a wagon train. One of the others was off down to Southampton the next day to board the Britannia cruise ship with his wife for a holiday. He had his accident six months before me, and must be 70 now, but keeps on rolling.
Cheers Dave.
You keep the DIY up Harry as it will do you far more good than sitting at a computer in a comfy chair supping Scotland’s Revenge. Last week I atttended the funeral of a local lady who passed away aged 97, today in Morrisons I spoke to her ‘younger’ brother who is 96 next month. He still drives his car and was shopping with his missus, tomorrow he is digging his garden up and putting slabs down in place of the lawn as it will be easier for him to keep tidy. I asked him who was doing the slabbing, “Just me and the missus” he said so if you want to live to 96+ Harry (about another ten years I guess? ) then keep active, he had a mild heart attack two months ago and the Doc told him that he needed some excersise hence the garden work!
Pete.
it’s been very quiet on here lately , not heard from gom for a while , he’s probably off on a continental jolly again like these rich pensioners do . rof said he was off to the sprog’s again soon , i reckon his immigration visa will have expired . he’ll be changing his name to muhammed so he can come back . poor old norman’s been poorly and harry suffering a different kind of pain . roll on summer ! cheers , dave
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Driver-Once-More:
Maybe he went on holiday and forgot to tell us he was goingHiya,
Still here alive and kicking, just been doing a bit of work around the house
before it crumbles into oblivion it’s still ongoing but there’s no rush that is
as far as I’m concerned the lady of the house as other ideas of course in her
eyes everything should be started today and should have been completed
by yesterday, normal service is about to be resumed ASAP.
thanks harry, long retired.Correct me if I’m wrong Harry, but I thought all your tools had been thrown in the skip
Cheers Dave.
Hiya,
Dave, I did retain a couple of screwdrivers plus a small electrical one a pair of pliers
a tiny tack hammer and a roll or two of insulation tape in a little box under the sink,
all my mechanicing tools two socket sets and a very large selection of hand tools are
now long gone to the skip as are the “implements of torture”, gardening tools, I did
tell a young apprentice fitter what my intentions were regarding the sockets and the
spanners and invited him to come and help himself we are talking mainly Britool here
and he never showed so he was obviously not interested in saving some money, I did
keep them in the car boot for about three weeks but he didn’t show, the kid works at
the local garage who now maintain my car with me not being able to do it myself so I
know he didn’t have much in the way of gear, his loss there was enough in the way of
stuff to do a complete strip down and rebuild of any car, there was a kit for making
brake pipes with a couple of coils of pipe and dozens of assorted unions and ends, a
boxed set of injector extractors and loads of specialist tools, I thought he would
have jumped at the chance but no, maybe he wanted them delivered, Eh’.
thanks harry. long retired.
If you were giving them away he probably though they were ‘knock off’ Harry, can’t be too careful these days!
Pete.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
harry_gill:
Driver-Once-More:
Maybe he went on holiday and forgot to tell us he was goingHiya,
Still here alive and kicking, just been doing a bit of work around the house
before it crumbles into oblivion it’s still ongoing but there’s no rush that is
as far as I’m concerned the lady of the house as other ideas of course in her
eyes everything should be started today and should have been completed
by yesterday, normal service is about to be resumed ASAP.
thanks harry, long retired.Correct me if I’m wrong Harry, but I thought all your tools had been thrown in the skip
Cheers Dave.Hiya,
Dave, I did retain a couple of screwdrivers plus a small electrical one a pair of pliers
a tiny tack hammer and a roll or two of insulation tape in a little box under the sink,
all my mechanicing tools two socket sets and a very large selection of hand tools are
now long gone to the skip as are the “implements of torture”, gardening tools, I did
tell a young apprentice fitter what my intentions were regarding the sockets and the
spanners and invited him to come and help himself we are talking mainly Britool here
and he never showed so he was obviously not interested in saving some money, I did
keep them in the car boot for about three weeks but he didn’t show, the kid works at
the local garage who now maintain my car with me not being able to do it myself so I
know he didn’t have much in the way of gear, his loss there was enough in the way of
stuff to do a complete strip down and rebuild of any car, there was a kit for making
brake pipes with a couple of coils of pipe and dozens of assorted unions and ends, a
boxed set of injector extractors and loads of specialist tools, I thought he would
have jumped at the chance but no, maybe he wanted them delivered, Eh’.
thanks harry. long retired.
The trouble with a lot of the younger generation Harry, is they don’t know how to handle money, they let it drop through their fingers like water. He could of saved himself a lot of money by taking up your kind offer. Crazy, but they never learn.
Cheers Dave.
windrush:
If you were giving them away he probably though they were ‘knock off’ Harry, can’t be too careful these days!Pete.
Hiya,
Everything I threw away I had paid for, most of it new, some I had got from garage
sales but all legitimate all I have left now is a compressor and inflator airline but I
will install that in the daughters garage ideal for inflating the son-in-laws bicycle
tyres they need 100 psi nowadays and should I ever need to check my car tyres or
mend the kids bike punctures I won’t be using my own “leccy”, nowt nicked Pete.
thanks harry, long retired.
Calm down Harry, I wasn’t suggesting that you would ever do such a thing! It does happen though, folk are offered stuff for free and assume there is a catch. I remember a tale an apprentice plumber told me years ago, the chap he was apprenticed to was retiring that day and on the way back to the yard after finishing the last job of the day this guy offered all his tools to this lad. The lad told me that he refused the tools as he reckoned that the older chap would need them for jobs at home or for helping his mates, they were crossing the river Trent at the time and the plumber stopped the van and heaved the toolbox etc over the parapet into the Trent! No way was he doing any work after he retired so, as the lad didn’t want them, nobody was having them apart from the fish! 
The lad was gutted, he realised that he had offended the guy and always regretted that he didn’t take them.
Pete.
windrush:
If you were giving them away he probably though they were ‘knock off’ Harry, can’t be too careful these days!Pete.
Motto of East Lancs “Nothing too hot or too heavy”
Bewick:
windrush:
If you were giving them away he probably though they were ‘knock off’ Harry, can’t be too careful these days!Pete.
Motto of East Lancs “Nothing too hot or too heavy”
Hiya,
Dennis, It’s our interloping with those border rievers all those years ago
old habits die hard, you must find it hard remaining upstanding.
thanks harry, long retired.
down on page two again , where has everyone gone ? has harry’s computer run out of steam again ?
Did he not say last time he went awol that he to do something for she who must be obeyed?
Driver-Once-More:
Did he not say last time he went awol that he to do something for she who must be obeyed?
I think he’s took up morris dancing.
Cheers Dave.
what a mental picture that presents , harry all dolled up with the bells and streamers . i would pay good money to see that. he might do a dance at the next gathering , cheers , dave
Dave the Renegade:
Driver-Once-More:
Did he not say last time he went awol that he to do something for she who must be obeyed?I think he’s took up morris dancing.
Cheers Dave.
Hiya,
Dave, frightfully sorry old chap but the Morris dancing is a non starter I’ve only
got a Toyota I sold my last Morris to the scrapman years ago.
thanks harry, long retired.
Yep but some of us younger member have to keep working so you lot can enjoy yourself
Bought a welsh whisky last week had a taste of someone else’s mind just to check & this went down very nice thanks might just have to open my bottle now it is the Penderyn Legend