windrush:
Cooker’s are easy to operate Harry, well gas ones are but I have never cooked with an electric one so they might be more technical? However washer/driers are a different matter, I bought a new one when the missus was in hospital last year and it baffles me totally! Everything does get washed eventually but it probably takes twice as long as it should as I can’t fathom all the fancy settings. We really need a new microwave but I never mastered the last one and no doubt they are more complicated nowadays, why can’t things just stay nice and simple? It’s like me climbing out of my last lorry (a 1989 Foden) and clambering (or attempting to ) up into a new Scania or MAN, apart from a probably half sized steering wheel everything else would be alien to me!
Pete.
Hiya,
Pete my interest in modern day Lorries is on a par with kitchen equipment,
they all look the same and drive about spaced a few yards apart all doing
the same speed with very few having a nice paint job, and I too Pete don’t
think I could get in/out of one but in my case I wouldn’t want to.
thanks harry, long retired.
Dave the Renegade:
Keep breathing Dave Rigsby, and show the sawbones what you are made of. I had a couple of spells in hospital in October and November. Sent home each time with more tablets etc. Got a cataract to come off in a couple of weeks. Hopefully after that I can keep away from the place for a long time after that.
But keep your chin up, old drivers are made of stern stuff.
Cheers Dave.
Have you had the cataract done Dave? if not…the good news…nowt to it. I’ve had both eyes done, brilliant job, colours are very vivid. The second eye I was on the table with the surgeon taking my eye apart at 10:00am (Bingley Clinic), at 12:00 noon I was in Wetherspoons in Batley supping a pint.
I drove the car the following day.
windrush: Cooker’s are easy to operate Harry, well gas ones are but I have never cooked with an electric one so they might be more technical? However washer/driers are a different matter, I bought a new one when the missus was in hospital last year and it baffles me totally! Everything does get washed eventually but it probably takes twice as long as it should as I can’t fathom all the fancy settings. We really need a new microwave but I never mastered the last one and no doubt they are more complicated nowadays, why can’t things just stay nice and simple? It’s like me climbing out of my last lorry (a 1989 Foden) and clambering (or attempting to ) up into a new Scania or MAN, apart from a probably half sized steering wheel everything else would be alien to me!
Pete.
Hold on there, I beg to differ re PRESSURE COOKERS. It’s just cost me £40 for a new one after Mrs GOM wrecked our perfectly good 30 year old Prestige Pressure cooker.
She was slow cooking a piece of brisket meat in it last Sunday, we went out, and the daft old ba…the old dear didn’t turn the heat off. 4 hours later we came home to all the smoke alarms chirping, a wrecked pressure cooker, and a carbonised piece of meat. The house still stinks, the poor old cooker is in the bin and if she doesn’t buck her ideas up a bit she’ll follow the cooker.
Harry said that he wouldn’t like to drive a modern truck so lets hope that when he goes working for Bewick that Dennis doesn’t give him a Scania with a microwave in it. Mind you knowing Harry it would be a good place to keep all his spare olives, bulbs and chains etc.
Haven’t used a pressure cooker for years now GOM, when we were both at work it was a handy tool and my elderly neighbour still uses one and steams her kitchen windows up! You do have to keep an eye on the water level though and we did have a few ‘mishaps’ over the years, I used to call in at the Prestige works in Derby to buy new valves and rings about every 18 months. I made some bread earlier and have just prepared todays lunch, spuds, haddock and scampi plus parsley sauce, and as I had some spare time between chores I found a leek and and an onion and made some leek and potato soup which will last us a couple of days.
Dave the Renegade:
Keep breathing Dave Rigsby, and show the sawbones what you are made of. I had a couple of spells in hospital in October and November. Sent home each time with more tablets etc. Got a cataract to come off in a couple of weeks. Hopefully after that I can keep away from the place for a long time after that.
But keep your chin up, old drivers are made of stern stuff.
Cheers Dave.
Have you had the cataract done Dave? if not…the good news…nowt to it. I’ve had both eyes done, brilliant job, colours are very vivid. The second eye I was on the table with the surgeon taking my eye apart at 10:00am (Bingley Clinic), at 12:00 noon I was in Wetherspoons in Batley supping a pint.
I drove the car the following day. [/quote
Yes Brian, had the cataract removed Wednesday morning and and a new lense fitted. Was driving yesterday and today, as you say nowt to it. I know a lot of people who have had them removed. Got a slight one on my better eye, but have been told that won’t need doing for a long time.
Slowly getting rebuilt.
Cheers Dave.
Hello Dave, Please don’t keep sending the windy weather over from wales, I know it comes from USA, but divert it far north. Pleased you have got a eye sorted out. I had mind done over two years ago, but I was one of the twenty per cent who had the skin cloud up, I could see ok for a few months but I went to opticians they refered me nothing happened, so I went to the eye clinic at the hospital, the woman consultant was a bit bruff to me , so I told her I had been refered for over three months and no one had contacted me, she checked on her computor, and told me my doctor had not referd me. I phoned my medical centre and ask why I had noy been refered, she came back and told me it has now been sent,the consultant said we will put you first of the list . Norman
Norman Ingram:
Hello Dave, Please don’t keep sending the windy weather over from wales, I know it comes from USA, but divert it far north. Pleased you have got a eye sorted out. I had mind done over two years ago, but I was one of the twenty per cent who had the skin cloud up, I could see ok for a few months but I went to opticians they refered me nothing happened, so I went to the eye clinic at the hospital, the woman consultant was a bit bruff to me , so I told her I had been refered for over three months and no one had contacted me, she checked on her computor, and told me my doctor had not referd me. I phoned my medical centre and ask why I had noy been refered, she came back and told me it has now been sent,the consultant said we will put you first of the list . Norman
Mine seems better Norm, just waiting for optician on 8th April for eye test for new specs. Got no window in the left side of old one’s, but seems an improvement. Will see if a pair of new specs improves it more in a few weeks. Happy with the result so far.
Hope they soon sort yours for you.
Cheers Dave.
Yes Dave, I got it laser treatment, they zapped a hole in it, it was all done in less than ten minutes, almost immediately my sight was crytal clear, it was the wasted time waiting for such a zap. Norman
Lawrence Dunbar:
Wheres Old Harry I wonder he has been very quiet lately?, Out on the Lash perhaps having his fave Malts, Regards Larry.
He’s been helping Guy Martin prepare for the wall Larry.
Cheers Dave.
Hiya,
Dave, Guy Martin, did come to me for some speed tips for his attempt at the
speed record on the wall of death as it was called when I were a lad and I’ve
seen the show so many times in days of yore the only problem was, Guy’s bike
wasn’t as quick as the old Seddon 32/4 I was driving and he couldn’t keep up.
thanks harry, long retired.
animal:
Here is me working hard as per to keep you lot happy with the malt’s
Hiya,
Ang could you try and work just a little bit harder my stockpile is getting low
and the pension doesn’t take that into account, maybe a spot of overtime
thanks harry, long retired.
animal:
Here is me working hard as per to keep you lot happy with the malt’s
Hiya,
Ang could you try and work just a little bit harder my stockpile is getting low
and the pension doesn’t take that into account, maybe a spot of overtime
thanks harry, long retired.
Do enough hours thanks
Lawrence Dunbar:
animal:
Here is me working hard as per to keep you lot happy with the malt’s
Well done Ang, Did you get my PM ?, Regards Larry.
Hiya,
This site was started by the late Dave Lioyd " Dave the Renegade " I think as a bit
of fun initially and I didn’t think for one minute it would get beyond a couple or so
posts but the amount of “hits” it has had, lots of it just daft banter and mickey
taking, anyway Dave Rest in Peace mate and I’ll think of you every time I look in.
thanks harry, long retired.
Just an observation. That Transport Cafe in the sky is getting busy. Must be some good craic going on.
Good place to go when we clock out and hand over the keys.
PS. Hope I qualify…Eventually. Jim.
Everything does get washed eventually but it probably takes twice as long as it should as I can’t fathom all the fancy settings. We really need a new microwave but I never mastered the last one and no doubt they are more complicated nowadays, why can’t things just stay nice and simple?
It’s like me climbing out of my last lorry (a 1989 Foden) and clambering (or attempting to
) up into a new Scania or MAN, apart from a probably half sized steering wheel everything else would be alien to me!
You do have to keep an eye on the water level though and we did have a few ‘mishaps’ over the years, I used to call in at the Prestige works in Derby to buy new valves and rings about every 18 months. I made some bread earlier and have just prepared todays lunch, spuds, haddock and scampi plus parsley sauce, and as I had some spare time between chores I found a leek and and an onion and made some leek and potato soup which will last us a couple of days. 
