Blimey, yet another one under his belt! Has Queen Liz’s telegram arrived yet Harry, my mother is eagerly waiting for hers but she still has ten years to go the same as ‘Her Maj’ herself. 
Pete.
Happy 80th Harry, Hope to see you in June in the Toon, Regards Larry.
Happy 80th Birthday Harry best wishes and take easy on the malts 
regards Johnnie
rigsby:
no worry harry , problem solved , i’ve gone deaf as a post now so if i "forget " to put my hearing aids in i can see her lips moving but i can’t hear a thing . i can lip read though and some of the language she used is quite shocking . dave
There you go Dave
cheers Johnnie
Hiya,
Well thanks everybody for the birthday wishes I wasn’t at home on the day
I spent the week in Southport, but on the 24th of May I became unable to
get around very well due to severe pain in my back and left leg having to
buy a walking stick to get about, and it isn’t getting any better just at the
moment, this being ancient isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, aye the old lorry
driving days have a lot to answer for.
thanks harry, long retired.
you have my sympathy harry , still waiting to have my back seen to and i have a walking stick in the car . if i am going to walk far or stand around a lot i get the stick out . the only answer for you is to drink more " anathsetic " to control the pain . dave
Strewth, bad backs, tell me about it, just at the moment I am in…erm…severe pain with my back, trouble is I know what it’s, it’s been diagnosed…degenerative spinal condition (my back is crumbling) and it’s not going to improve. Back in the 70’s I had an industrial injury, (I fell off a storage tank), fractured vertebrae etc etc, arthritis has set in and it’s gone downhill since then PLUS, all them years in unsprung cabs on unsprung seats and ox cart suspension hasn’t helped BUT…my drinking arm is OK, I’ve still got a pulse, …onward and upward. 
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you lot
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you lot
Hiya,
Are you still managing to work Ang ? I doubt I could manage to clamber into a
cab anymore, not that I wan’t to and thankfully I don’t need to.
thanks harry, long retired
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you lot
i absolutely hate using my walking stick . i call them benefit sticks , you see all the deadlegs hobbling into the post office on their sticks and when they thing nobody is looking they are bouncing round like spring lambs . i don’t want to be classed as one of them . dave
harry_gill:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you lotHiya,
Are you still managing to work Ang ? I doubt I could manage to clamber into a
cab anymore, not that I wan’t to and thankfully I don’t need to.
thanks harry, long retired
Yes I still work mind do rattle a bit but keeps me going
rigsby:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you loti absolutely hate using my walking stick . i call them benefit sticks , you see all the deadlegs hobbling into the post office on their sticks and when they thing nobody is looking they are bouncing round like spring lambs . i don’t want to be classed as one of them . dave
Know what you mean hate using mine but it does fold up so can carry in bag out the way or leave it in car depends what I am doing also how much I have done & weather more for the ankle then back atm
rigsby:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you loti absolutely hate using my walking stick . i call them benefit sticks , you see all the deadlegs hobbling into the post office on their sticks and when they thing nobody is looking they are bouncing round like spring lambs . i don’t want to be classed as one of them . dave
Nail on the head Dave, there is a fella round our way…a window cleaner, he only works mornings and then comes hobbling in to Wetherspoons with TWO walking sticks. The man is a miracle, he can climb ladders without his sticks. Benefit deadleg. 
It makes my bloody teeth itch, all us folks on here are (or have been) hard grafting folk who’ve worked long and hard to make a life for ourselves and then we have to watch tossers like the window cleaner who are screwing the system, cash in hand cleaning windows, signing on for unemployment benefit in the afternoon.
grumpy old man:
rigsby:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you loti absolutely hate using my walking stick . i call them benefit sticks , you see all the deadlegs hobbling into the post office on their sticks and when they thing nobody is looking they are bouncing round like spring lambs . i don’t want to be classed as one of them . dave
Nail on the head Dave, there is a fella round our way…a window cleaner, he only works mornings and then comes hobbling in to Wetherspoons with TWO walking sticks. The man is a miracle, he can climb ladders without his sticks. Benefit deadleg.
It makes my bloody teeth itch, all us folks on here are (or have been) hard grafting folk who’ve worked long and hard to make a life for ourselves and then we have to watch tossers like the window cleaner who are screwing the system, cash in hand cleaning windows, signing on for unemployment benefit in the afternoon.
Yep & we can’t get a penny even if we did try to claim
grumpy old man:
rigsby:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you loti absolutely hate using my walking stick . i call them benefit sticks , you see all the deadlegs hobbling into the post office on their sticks and when they thing nobody is looking they are bouncing round like spring lambs . i don’t want to be classed as one of them . dave
Nail on the head Dave, there is a fella round our way…a window cleaner, he only works mornings and then comes hobbling in to Wetherspoons with TWO walking sticks. The man is a miracle, he can climb ladders without his sticks. Benefit deadleg.
It makes my bloody teeth itch, all us folks on here are (or have been) hard grafting folk who’ve worked long and hard to make a life for ourselves and then we have to watch tossers like the window cleaner who are screwing the system, cash in hand cleaning windows, signing on for unemployment benefit in the afternoon.
Hiya,
Looks to me like the window cleaning gadgie is defo on the make, not a man
living and needing two sticks would be capable of performing window clean
duties, a lot of stretching and standing on one foot is the name of the game
I personally and without any qualms whatsoever tip the authorities the wink
when he’s out and about carrying on with is trade and hopefully he’ll have to
pay back all he’s stolen, and theft it is, go on mate shop him, fill yer’ boots.
thanks harry, long retired.
I’ve got enough problems at the moment. We live in a little terraced cottage (just 4 cottages), 3 are privately owned, one is rented by a benefits deadleg from an Asian landlord. A few months ago we woke to find a large (very) police presence 
the whole shebang. It seems that my ‘deadleg neighbour’ had a very thriving cannabis growing operation…we’d no idea until the feds showed up. Well, the atmosphere has been somewhat strained since the raid not only with the aforementioned deadleg but with the great unwashed from the locality who have had their supply disrupted…THEY THINK IT WAS ME WHO SHOPPED THE WHOLE OPERATION 
For the record, it wasn’t me, none of the 3 private owners had any idea what was going on.
animal:
harry_gill:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you lotHiya,
Are you still managing to work Ang ? I doubt I could manage to clamber into a
cab anymore, not that I wan’t to and thankfully I don’t need to.
thanks harry, long retiredYes I still work mind do rattle a bit
Apologies Ang,
rigsby:
animal:
Bad back yep fractured prolapsed disc excessive wear crumbling disc starting to get authorities in it as well just for start have a walking stick in the car as well as the ankle ( only 85% movement in it won’t get any better after accident last year ) & I am a bit younger than you loti absolutely hate using my walking stick . i call them benefit sticks , you see all the deadlegs hobbling into the post office on their sticks and when they thing nobody is looking they are bouncing round like spring lambs . i don’t want to be classed as one of them . dave
Know what you mean hate using mine but it does fold up so can carry in bag out the way or leave it in car depends what I am doing also how much I have done & weather more for the ankle then back atm
Trouble at t’mill…again. 
I am reliably informed that I’ve done my annual party trick again today, it’s our wedding anniversary and I’d forgotten… again. She has definitely got the hump…“get your own breakfast you fat bast***”. I don’t think it helped when I started laughing and said “I think that’s a bit harsh my love”. 
It’s going to be a long day.
Oh, 56 years. 
grumpy old man:
Trouble at t’mill…again.Oh, 56 years.
Hiya,
Thankfully GOM with me not getting hitched until I was 59 and being now 80
I doubt very much I will get that much purgatory, phew!!!
thanks harry, long retired.
grumpy old man:
Trouble at t’mill…again.Oh, 56 years.
You think you have problems , my anniversary is on 28th september and the loved one’s birthday is on the 26th . 53 years this time and how many times have i forgotten one or the other , ever so many . relations have usually thawed by xmas providing i don’t forget her xmas card . dave
This is why I am single never have to remember