Canny lass

Excellent Malcolm.

A simple idea that is both useful and a brilliant advert for Bedlington.

The perfect weather for your unveiling.

Hope to see them multiply!

What's the simple idea that's a brilliant advert for Bedlington? What? What? What?

Sorry, Malcolm, I'll have to let the lads and lasses know what the unveiling is.

SEE YOU TUBE ATTACHMENT

Her stage name is Mystique Delight but her real name is Doris Spoggatt and she is a cleaner at the Clayton Arms.

She will be unveiling herself at the Market Place club - actually the unveiling is waving her dusters about to give them an air.

She does private performances but she is booked up at my place until 2014...I've got a lot of cleaning to do.

That's one helluva duster she's got there Keith!

well,blow me.4.08 am and i woke in a bog of sweat. we had been up to the hospital to get another sick note signed and parked the van in a dodgy looking cul de sac round the back next to a chavvy looking council house with broken windows. a couple of guys out side with cans that looked like somthing from deliverance .ahh it will be ok. who would mess with that i said..

off into the hozzie for some banter with the nurses and on our return to the carpark i caught the effers red handed @ my van. a wrecking bar prized the mesh from the side windows and the effing eejits laughing at me. i took the hammer from one of the guys(the little banjo player one ) and threatened to mash his head in. he admitted he had all my stuff in the house.

i dragged him round the front of the van to find the wife in tears. the other effer had been trying it on with her..he was just laughing and threatning me with a can of beer..i was holding this retard..fumbeling for my keys and trying to comfort the wife and call the police all at the same time and next thing i know its 4.08am and i wake up bursting for a wee..

phew !!

all i can say is that these tramadol and diazipan i am getting from the doctor for my back are doing my head in..i also been watching the walking dead final series on chanel 5 and think that might have somthing to do with it too.

obviously my friends misadventure with the roof tent being stolen was praying on my mind and with a comalgamation of fear,tablets and insomnia...here i am..lol

feeling better than i have been of late..weening myself off the tablets i might be able to get back to work again in a couple of weeks. there are a load of welding jobs piling up in the garage and the factory want me back too..its a pure effing disaster i can tell you.(pardoning my langauge of course).

at least somthing positive has come from all this. the wife says if she has to run up these stairs after my effing arse again..shes effing off back to england..lol..

wonky himself.

Be very, very careful with that Tramadol Wonky!! I was prescribed it when I broke a few ribs in March. It did my head in as well, but even worse it gave me acute respiratory failure after only 6 days and I ended up in intensive care. Lord knows what it's doing to you in combination with Diazepam.

Will Pete be there.

Maybe it'sPete who's being unveiled, Eileen!

Must be big if it takes 2 hours to unveil it.

Not George Best CL, but legendary SAFC centre forward Vic Hallam & myself, both holding the FA cup back in 1973.

Happy Days!

Really? Either my eyesight, my memory , or maybe both are failing. Must be old age catching up on me.

Are you being serious? Is this "THE Porcy" in Bedlington Station you are talking about? An Italian Restaurant?

maybe he went clubbing and met a lady, come back soon Pete.

I prefer to Think he's off to some far flung foreign land Eileen. I can just see him now; grass skirt, bare belly (BARE I said not ´beer), waving palm trees, White sands ......

I think it`s time for another one of these:

No other words needed really!

George Best I recognize. Who's the other guy?

I bow to superior knowledge and I fully concur!

It's amazing what we learned at Westridge Malcolm.

Possibly..........Polystichum Munitum?

Doubt it Malcolm. Polystichum Munitum is a native of North America. My guess would be Dryopteris filix-mas.

Hello everyone,

As you all know I have pushed the Town Council about a Miner's Memorial for Bedlington due to the public (most of you on this website) asking for one and here is the update:

West Bedlington Town Council support a Miner's Memorial however due to other commitments and precept the town council will not organize or supply/pay for one.

So what happens now?

If anyone would like to start a working group to look at providing a Miners Memorial for Bedlington, please PM me and we can look at starting one up and getting things going.

(Note: This is and will not be political!)

The miners and pits should be remembered for what they did for this country.

But they will allow you to erect a memorial if you find the Money?

MEN , KITCHEN !!!!! . Do all houses have these ? ( A kitchen that is ) I sometimes see the wife disappear into another room and come out again with cooked food. Could a mystery be solved here ?

KITCHEN? I think it's the female equivalent ofGARAGE - you know, that place we often see the old man disappear into and come out again with oily hands and an empty wallet!

I give up!

Now that's Amazing. The last post was underlined in RED but appears OK once posted. This post is in italics. Let's see what happens when I post it.

I haven't touched anything! Honest! These underlinings and crossings out are just appearing from nowhere. They are driving me mad!

The Girl guides used to get an invite as well.

I seem to have an awful lot of spare time on my hands, all of a sudden.

Can`t for the life of me think why.

Enjoy! You've done a great job.

Synergy,

like a best mate who came to stay with you for a while but who is packing their bags now to leave!

Great shows, great month again well done lad and lasses!

Couldn't have put it better myself Malcolm! My sentiments exactly!

How on Earth do you cut "thin slices of minced meat"? As yet I haven't come across the old Swedish Word kollops. Most knowledgeable sources here say that kalops originates in the English Word collops. However it isn't impossible that it's come full circle. Some other Words have such as - kex, from the English Word cakes - from the ON Word kaka.

Folklore of Northumberland by Fran and Geoff Doel has a section called Collop Momday.

It seems the day before Shrove Tuesday and the last day meat could be eaten until Lent was over;

consisted of 'collop' a slice of dried salted and hung meat preserved through winter.

Rashers of bacon were carried to houses of friends

An effigy of Jesus in a coffin was taken house to house and money was needed to see inside the coffin.

I have never heard of this custom before.

That's really interesting Maggie. I've never Heard of Collop Monday. Perhaps we should try to get it going again. Bacon butties anyone?

I remember the Clayton Ballroom as the most popular venue for punch-ups - all that adrenalin and hormones!

And that was just the lasses, Paul!

And from me too!

Canny Lass may remember this place, its not too far from her childhood home.

Certainly do Foxy. The opencast was a field where we used to play that originally belonged to Fails Farm, if I'm not misstaken. It was between the colliery rows and what eventually became North Ridge. One of the things I remember about the opencast was a small red brick building, just up the road from Raisbeck's Garage, where they used to put new treads on enormous tyres. Possibly from the trucks on the site. The smell was horrible.

The why and wherefore of these things fascinate me.

I just am not sure we can trust the technology.

We've been trusting the technology here for years Maggie. It works just fine. Everybody here wants wind turbines BUT nobody wants them in their back garden!! Unfortunately they have very large back gardens. It's a real headache. I personally Think they are quite attractive but could be improved if they were painted to look like flowers (pink/ blue/red petals, yellow centre, green stalk). It could be like a field of poppies swaying in the wind! I Think there's something soothing about the steady motion of a wind turbine. A possible alternative to NHS prescribed tranquilizers.