mickypotts

Walked down the path many many times

Maggie did you work at the Welwyn??

A rope walks into a bar and asks for a beer.....

the bartender says I cant serve you you,re a rope......

The rope says no...... I,m a frayed Knot!!!

Ka Boom.....

I just remembered seeing Roy Orbison at the Haymarket in the Tatler club, 3.00 pounds entrance fee and we were the only ones in the room apart from a pair of drunk gay gentlemen singing their heads off, Roy may have had a few too many as weell cos neebody wes in tune that night, 1971 sounds about right

I have one of her CD,s and play it often, The auld broon mare is great

Malcolm you are correct, its the dust kicked up by the Combine since its in line with the rows of the field that is being cut, I wonder if the driver has a gas mask on???

If you follow the blyth river to its source above Ponteland near the airport you will see all the fields that have been discharging pesticides and fertilizers along the way into our lovely little stream, the fish never seemed to mind and we all swam in it and remember all the DDT that killed most of our wildlife for decades, I never saw a fox or a Magpie that I can remember when I was young but they are fine now so it seems.

If you Google map the river and follow it upstream you can see some buildings that are on fire near the bank, anyone know what that might be??

How about opening up some old pit shafts and diverting the water down there???

Oops, almost forgot.................

The real and best cure for a hangover is...

1. try to drink a glass of water for each drink you have, tough one I know.

2. drink the clearest booze you can, Vodka, Gin etc.

3. take a B6 vitamin before you start.

4. do not keep switching types of alchohol.

5. take a B6 when you are done.

6. have a glass of water, a glass of Orange juice and another B6 on your night stand for when you wake.

7. DO NOT take any pain killers, they will make it harder for your Liver to recover, have some more water.

8. if you can get more sleep, but do not miss work, even if you are a wreck it will teach you for next time.

So here you are folks, this will work so the first one to try it can report on its success, or failure....

Good Luck to the lot of you!!!

I learned at quite a young age while in the merchant Marine that hangovers would not be any excuse to miss work and at least a day up to a weeks pay would be forfeited if you did so my cure for hangovers was to know when I had enough and get to bed on time, even today at age 59 I cannot recall a day that I missed work because of drink, and I do like to drink

That is a Ford Cortina in the first pic, I had a 69 as my 2nd car, so we can date this pic as late 60,s or early 70,s

Brilliant photos, Vic. What amazes me is the smoke pollution in photo 2. Practically every house in Bedlington would have had a coal fire - we had two in our house - and these would have been belching out smoke 24-7. Our clothes must have been reeking after been hung on the washing line. (But I suppose everyone was the same!)

PS. Me and Jim Hunter went exploring in those derelict pit buildings - we got in via the showers. We got chased by a pitman. (Did they have pit security guards them days?)

Great pictures Vic, I added a comment for the one of the Neuk in the Market place

Good Job, it is a Citroen 2CV, it was parked outside a B&B we stayed at in Tivoli New York State, it was inspected but It never moved in the week I was there

!. 116 years

2. Ecuador

3. Sheep or goat intestine

4. November

5. horse squirrel goat bears hogs sable, Mr Sable?

6 island of Dogs

7. Albert

8. pink red brown and white

9. originally China exported and cultivated in New Zealand now all over the world

10. orange or red

So now whats the next new stranger????

1. Alsation dog I dont have a clue

2. the Dun Cow was there first, I was caught drinking in there when I was 14 with my brother and 2 freinds, shame was brought to my family over this, Or so my Dad said! We actually gave the copper our real names thinking he wouldnt check! between the 4 of us we were fined 30 Quid, took me ages to pay off my share with my paper rounds, methinks the bartender made a phone call after he served us. we deserved our punishment.

3. isnt a bunker where the coal is stored at the pit? that would be an appropriate term to use and it was the bunker before there was a golf course in Bedders.

4. the Barrington arms had a pet monkey that drank beer in the bar so the story goes and when he had too much he sometimes got nasty, as young kids we would take a pop bottle to the side door and tell the bar man to fill it with best bitter for my Dad, it always worked!!!

in the streets at night when it was damp you would get covered with black soot that hung in the air both from the heaps and the smoke from the chimneys of the houses, it was not practical to take a bath every night since you may have used the old tin baths that you had to heat up the water in the fireplace, a wet cloth to wipe off with was all we had, every one was exposed to breathing in the smoke, it was just the way it was.

Many Happy Returns Foxy, all the best

ah well, thats a scotsman for you, gud one

Well smack my !*!@# and call me Nancy!! my memory is not what it was, Ashington was the place, a single story yellow brick building covered with soot from the chimneys, as everything was back then, he used to go up in trainers from Acklington I think

My brother David was in the ATC in guide Post, he really enjoyed it

Thank you all very much, I spent the weekend in Davis West Virginia trout fishing with my mates and landed the 2 largest, one brook and 1 rainbow about 15-16 inches each, I was going to release them but my freind Todd had promised his girl a nice trout dinner for letting him come on the trip and he caught nowt so I took pity on him, he said they were delicious!

I,ll be pinning this on the board at my club next tuesday, very amusing.