kevmac47:
Oh Pete! I think rubbish is a bit strong!!!drivel is a more acceptable term Regards Kev.
Hiya,
Kev, I’ll have you know I hold a masters in drivel.
thanks harry, long retired.
Long may you spout it Harry, I look forward to our next meet. Regards Kev.
Harry you should be given a gong by Lizzie for your services to retired lorry drivers welfare, as in cheerer upper.
Cheers Dave.
Hiya,
Recognition at last for my ability to spout broken English, rubbish and drivel
my lifelong ambition has been achieved I can croak a happy man, but am in
no great hurry there’s plenty of daftness left in the old dog yet.
thanks harry, long retired.
Lawrence Dunbar:
0Hi Harry I see you are still on top form, How would you fancy a go on this,?, Regards Larry.
Hiya,
Don’t have the licence for anything other than a basic jam jar now Larry, I unloaded
the lot in favour of making it simple to renew my licence on line it seems if you want
to renew the bit where you could in theory drive a 7.5 tonner you have to apply via
Swansea so to make life easier and save on postage I just kept the bit of my licence
that allows me to drive my car.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Ah well I did manage a few pages before I finally “croaked”
thanks harry, long retired.
Chapters of pages in you Harry. You have have loads of stories to tell.
Cheers Dave.
Harry my friend where are you, Come out and play, There is loads of good crack, & Of course loads of cheap Malts at the moment in the Supermarkets, Get stocked up before the election, The prices may rocket Eh, I drink to your good health Harry, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Hi Harry I see you are still on top form, How would you fancy a go on this,?, Regards Larry.
My first bike (after the 60cc Puch Cheetah Scooter) was a 1949 250 Panther. One year younger than me. It leaked more oil than Saudi Arabia. It had solid rear suspension, so I replaced 3 rear axles. It ‘whipped’ on corners (quite a violent readjustment by the rear wheel, frightening until you got used to it!) oh, and the electrics were ‘basic’ - yes, the headlight had a tendency to fail on a tight corner.
Next bike was brother Andy’s 600 norton. We travelled from Barrow to Manchester on this every Sunday evening for a while, when we worked at the tax office in Manchester - Albert Bridge House, just off Deansgate. Possibly the closest I’ve come to living death! The job, not the bike! We came home every Friday evening. But… We had to spend the weekends repairing the bike!
Had cars ever since -until the ‘Senior Moment’ 2 years ago.
Honda 600 - Allegedly ‘entry level’ - fastest thing I’ve driven apart from the XJS!
Oh, if I’d had this when I was 18! Well, I wouldn’t be writing this now!
Hiya,
My only bit of driving licence I have left only allows me to drive cars so the
idea of me riding motorcycles would be a dream only, quite happy to look
at them now.
thanks harry, long retired.
animal:
I have just bought a Kawasaki gpz 500s nice little play toy
Hiya,
Ang sounds like a nice “not so little” toy you’ll have some fun with it I’m sure,
I’ve just had a message letting me know the date of the next “do” at the
Labour club June the 6th, hope to see you there keep her lit Kidda.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya,
Dennis Skinner has just ousted a whippersnapper SNP MP out of the seat he has
occupied for over three decades and has full entitlement of keeping his well
worn seat as long as he remains an MP, good on yer Dennis.
thanks harry, long retired.
Its a pity there weren’t more like Dennis Skinner around Harry. A man of principal who sticks to his guns. Won’t drink in the bar’s at the house of commons, refuses to go to buck house when the MP’s are asked. A lot more to Dennis than people realise. His book is a very good read.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Its a pity there weren’t more like Dennis Skinner around Harry. A man of principal who sticks to his guns. Won’t drink in the bar’s at the house of commons, refuses to go to buck house when the MP’s are asked. A lot more to Dennis than people realise. His book is a very good read.
Cheers Dave.
And Dennis only has one job…an MP. They’ve all got other jobs and IMO are part time MP’s (£65k plus expenses) but Dennis just has the one job.
Dave the Renegade:
Its a pity there weren’t more like Dennis Skinner around Harry. A man of principal who sticks to his guns. Won’t drink in the bar’s at the house of commons, refuses to go to buck house when the MP’s are asked. A lot more to Dennis than people realise. His book is a very good read.
Cheers Dave.
And Dennis only has one job…an MP. They’ve all got other jobs and IMO are part time MP’s (£65k plus expenses) but Dennis just has the one job.
Hiya,
Aye’ and you can only do one full time job properly, take Dennis out of the
equation and the rest of them are a load of fiddling freeloaders and are
allowed to get away with it by the old boy network.
thanks harry, long retired.
windrush:
I would hope the Dennis does ‘only’ have one job, he is 83 years old!
Pete.
Dennis Skinner.
He often tells of turning up for work at his colliery after he had been elected as an MP, refusing to see it as his new occupation. This is the reason Skinner gives for refusing to miss any sitting in the House of Commons, saying that “if you missed a shift at the pit, you would get the sack”. He also refuses to adopt the pairing system in which he can agree a mutual abstention with a Conservative MP, saying he won’t cover for them whilst they “go swanning off to Ascot or to their boardrooms”. In the 2004–2005 sitting of the House he claimed the least expenses for an MP who served the full year. He has never been a member of an All-Party Parliamentary Group; does not eat alongside parliamentary colleagues in the Commons dining room; does not take trips or holidays paid for by others; never drinks in the Commons Bar; and stays in the House of Commons during the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament, as he advocates outright abolition of the House of Lords.
He usually sits on the first seat of the front bench below the gangway in the Commons (known as the “Awkward Squad Bench” because it is where rebel Labour Party MPs have traditionally sat) in a tweed jacket (whilst most other MPs wear suits) and signature red tie. He gained the sobriquet “the Beast of Bolsover” for falling foul of the procedures of Parliament, many of which are in his view archaic and contemptible.
There is a documentary being made about Dennis throughout this year.
Cheers Dave.
Hi Harry I see you are still on top form, How would you fancy a go on this,?, Regards Larry.
