HIGH PIT WILMA

LOATHE.....LOATHE....LOATHE......! That aal thi roads up where me caravan is,as shown on me pics of the "Jet-Patcher" machine above,are a million times worse noo than wat they were when this machine clagged tarry toot inti thi pot-holes,aboot three years ago! Thi roads are so bad that me car grounds in places,and yi can hear aaful crunching underneath even as yi gaan deed slow,and weave from side ti side ti miss as many holes as yi can,but it's an impossibility ti miss aal of thim. A had brokken coil-springs on me last car,[thi one that got written off by thi hit and run bitch last year],and aav noo got a broken one on this car,which is gaana gaan in next week for service repair and Mot. A wonder if a send the bill in ti NCC,will they pay it?!!!!

A think it musta been a foggy neet,and aav been dog.....[!]....tired not ti hae seen this damage,unless it's just started ti break up recently,but ti be honest,the breaks in the aad concrete dinna luk like recent breaks,mebbe they were cracks and mebbe a heavy vehicle has clipped the fence and pushed it owa,which would be consistent wi thi type of collapse that it's aal displaying! Nivvor mind,nae mair rabbitin' as lang as it does get fixed....nice one Mr Gilbert,whoever yi are!!

Whey it seems up ti noo aa got it wrang again!!....tha NOT deaing thi dirt track alang ti thi Station,[but they might eventually!],tha daeing VERY essential repair work on thi Welwyn bridge itself. LIKE.. the fact that it's actually being done,cos a waaked LBJ alang there last neet,at midneet as usual,[!],and a saw where the road AND the concrete base which holds the fencing,is collapsing,and being undermined by heavy rainwater. If it had been left much langer,one day we wud see a bus or other heavy vehicle parked doon aside the Welwyn buildings,lying upside doon! Noo aav waaked alang that road many a thoosand times,but nivvor on the east side where tha's nae footpath,so yi dinna see thi damage from the proper footpath and yi dinna see it from thi car as yi drive owa thi bridge,cos yi hae ti waatch wheor ya gaan......! Just hope after thi bridge is fixed,that they continue alang thi road ti thi Station,and gie us a gud road alang theor.

Heh heh!!FINALLY.....FINALLY!.....the Welwyn bridge is closed for traffic,cos they are .....FINALLY....re-surfacing the dirt track road from the bridge to the Station![mind,it's only for a few weeks cos thi water board,or gas,or BT,or sum bugga else will come along and decide a trench needs digging to lay pipes or cables..... ....broadband.....fibre-optic cables.........heh heh!!!!] That stretch has been deadly for bikers for years noo,and it griped me when a full road crew,with planer....etc,re-made the road....in the back lane....at Milburn Terrace complete with signs,restrictions,road markings,etc......a back lane!!!!.....mind,a very senior NCC official happens to live there,nowt personal against the fella,just seems a bit........whey,ti me,the main roads should take priority owa a back lane!! Loathe....Barrington road also a dirt track fast becoming!!.... Nae money for that...it's aal gaan ti Ashington!!!...[see this weeks leader!]

A did Steve! Cheers! Bill.

Sarky Sod!....watch your windaes marra......!! Just been browsin' aroond and cum across ye here,Steve!!......thi lads doon thi pit used ti say aa was 21 when a was born!![mind...aa divvent knaa if that was an insult or a compliment...!!] Cheers Steve for ya kind observations!

Just had my problematic laptop in to Steve's at his shop..."Northumberland-IT",down at Grange Park,got it back today. My laptop is now running fine,and if Steve charged for all the laughs,while in his shop,he wouldn't need to rely on I.T. to put bread on his table!! First-class service from a first-class dude!! THIS is what we need more of to get Bedlington back the way it used to be when I was a young kid!! Thanks Steve.....! Bill. [aka H.P.W.]

Mebbe there shudda been mair phones so he can "phowne howme" from any location....!! Seriously,I was done at the Wansbeck hospital,a year or two back,when the first Parking-eye was installed. I paid the parking fee into the machine o.k.,but in my flustered state,out of breath,having had to park up beside the windmill,walk down to the machine etc,I entered a wrong letter into the machine. The "fine" came through the post a few weeks later,totally unexpected by me. No problem,I went in to see the "P.A.L.S." receptionist,a canny young lass,who sorted it,and I didn't have to pay the fine. Noo!! What annoyed me,indirectly,was the fact that the photo of my car front and rear,showing my registration plate,was absoloutely crystal clear,high resoloution. The point I am making is.....whenever anyone is mugged or a theft takes place,CCTV footage is always blurry and faces of perpetrators can never be positively identified. Makes me wonder why! Morrison's!!! ....a wudn't gaan back any mair [mind,a divvent gaan ti start wi!] stick ti Aldi and Lidl..!!,yi canna gaan wrang!

Me edit button just disappeared when a tried ti edit and dae a correction to spelling!! Where is it?....this happened another time and a nivvor found oot why!!

A relative of mine has one of these which has a 25 mile range,with a distinct fine,but powerful beam which would be seen for miles around at ground level,and is used as a pointer in astronomy to point out particular stars etc. In responsible and educated hands,who understands flight paths of civilian aircraft,and only used on crystal-clear starry nights.with no wind,so even the furthest-away aircraft can be either seen or heard,this is a valuable tool,but even after all that,I cannot help but think they should be either banned,or restricted and licenced to those who can show justification for requiring one for personal use. One such night,a while ago,my relative was out star-spotting alone in the garden,in the early hours of the morning,and while momentarily testing the laser-pen out by flashing it quickly,in very short bursts,she was terrified by a whirring sound behind her back,and upon looking up,saw a strange craft hovering over the house-roof at a very low height. After a few seconds,the strange-looking craft turned slowly and just whizzed out of sight.This story has been covered in another thread,if my memory seves me correct,and whether it was a military stealth craft or an alien craft makes no difference,it is obvious that the reason it appeared was to recon the source of the laser. In the wrong hands,they are deadlier than a shotgun....i.e...the potential for disaster on a much greater level is present. Do we really need them even for instructional purposes?....what was wrong with the good old-fashioned stick?...it was alright in my hands on syndicate work on courses that I attended!!

Taaking aboot lights,aav got two TEN WATT Cree-Led security lamps ti put up in place of the 150 -watt Halogens that are up there ootside,so aal see what difference there is when they are up,cos it'll be a gud comparison ti mek....relatively-speaking of course!

Aye ,Steve,it's like aav got a haaf-moon shinin' up me drive noo,cos the street leet is reet ootside me door! Wor bedrooms are darker inside noo,so it suits me Wife and Son who are bad sleepers,but a can understand aroond your place,cos me [deceased] Mother-in-law used ti live up the cul-de-sac,aroond from your shop,it'll be dark as hell where the folks' back doorways are. When aav been driving aroond the place at neet,aal owa Ashington,Blyth,Morpeth,and Bedlington,aav tuk notice of a canny few leets failing aalriddy,after only a few weeks!!.......COST-SAVING?...a think the suppliers and manufacturers have a lot of explaining ti dae!! When a think hoo my "Dog-waakin'" cree-led torch lights the road up 300 yards,ahead,like car headlights,and runs for 100 hours on two "Penlight" batteries,and fits in thi palm of me hand.......THESE streetleets shud hae cost coppers runnin' on aboot ten watts apiece! Whey that's MY opinion anywheh!! Cheers Steve,aal see yi soon!

Heh heh! Thanks for aal thi info Eggy,this is aal interesting stuff,seeing as wor lass was born in Puddler's Raa..! Thanks again for posting,and tekking thi time ti research stuff!

I've been a radio listener [especially short-wave] since I was aboot 13 yrs aad...on a pre-war monster set wat a got from a neighbour and fixed up... Them were thi days of Barry Alldis,James Whale's night-owls,[lang afore Alan Robson wrecked it!],Radio Luxembourg.....fading...........! Lang afore phone-ins cos nae bugga had phones ti phone in!!![whey,not in thi mining communities....except the pit Engineer etc!] So when Terry came alang,he was a favourite from day one,like Tony Blackburn and he's jokes!! Thi thing that aalwis amused me,reet till we heard of he's passing,and mind,this WAS reet before,aa aalwis used ti comment ti wor lass hoo he just mutters away as he turns he's head away from thi mike ivry noo and again......aa really found that funny. But a nicer personality will be hard ti match..and fair enough,there are a lot of lovely folks on thi radio,but a think most of them wud agree wi aal us. R.I.P. Terry Wogan

For once....AAM sayin' NOWT!!

Wat aboot thi classic one of aal time.............."For Smash get ....Smash......!! [accompanied by loads of Ford hub-caps simulating merriment...!!!]

Heh heh! It's amazing whaat HPW can dae eh!! Aav got a lot o' pull wi thi planning department ye knaa.........whaat AAA say...... gaans!!.....[ownly it shudda sed "Puddlaa's Raa" !!] Thanks for daeing thi research,and posting thi info!

I never smoked ,so negatory on thi tab front,but Binksies,next ti thi Whitley schyuul,selt "Carbine" powder ti kids if they said it was for their Dad's Carbine lamp..! Even when naked flame contrivances were banned through the country,the Doctor Pit at Bedlington remained a "Naked flame lamp" mine,so Binks' supplied the Calcium Carbinate powder....only thing was....it was more deadly in kids' hands than tabs!!......I nearly blew the aad coal-hoose door of it's hinges one day,during an experiment that went badly wrang!!![aged aboot ll years-ish!!]

Heh heh!!! Whey yi bugga! Canny Lass,you said it in a nutshell,and thanks a lot for your kind reference to me ,as I'm sure the other's will appreciate your wise words! The minute I read Vic's remarks,I laughed heartily,he's a man after me aan heart,is Vic,he wadn't want ti offend anybody seriously,just a little bit o' skit,doesn't harm ti press a point!! Merc,they must be like fish,only grow to the size of their environment....? I agree with Sym and Merc,ye get a better greeting from ya pets,[sometimes] than yi dae off some fowk!! Eggy,a agree wi ye that in a perfect world,answers would be yes or no.......nae pussy-footin' aboot! A also re-inforce me philosophy that it wud be a queer world if we aal agreed on ivrything......thi mind boggles at thi thowts of it!! It's like religion yi knaa,caases mair bother in thi world than owt else,noo,if ivry bugga just left ivry bugga else ti believe [or Not believe....],in whaativva they waant ti, ivry bugga wud get on just fine!!....but thaas aalwis sum bugga waantin ti preach ti them that duzzn't waant any bugga preaching ti thim...!!![aam a mekkin' sense heor noo?!!] Beg ti differ eh!! [nuff sed!]

Great stuff! from you ,Vic,and also Canny Lass , and Brian! Vic,talking about culling the Wolves,reminds of a documentary I saw on telly [probably in the black and white days,cos I haven't watched telly for years...],and it was how they were starting to cull the Wolves,cos they were decimating the Moose population,somewhere in the U.S.. After a few years the Moose population exploded,and forests were being decimated by the Moose,as they feed on Lichens,which grow on the bark,so the bark was removed inadvertently,and the trees died off. SO!,they had to re-introduce the Wolves back again,to control the Moose! Noo,does that mek sense? They did the same thing recently on the Shetland Islands,introducing hedgehogs,for a reason which I forget,then having to cull them cos they were decimating the ground-nesting birds population,by stealing the eggs from the nests. Meks ye wonder whaats atween these folks lugs,ti interfere wi Nature,doesn't it?

"Dragon's den" her favourite then?!![mind a dinna waatch telly but aav hord folk on aboot it....a dinna even knaa wat it is!....just thowt it fitted the thread!!] Lizards and reptiles generally,are the most fascinating creatures aren't they?....snakes intrigued me hoo they moved and climbed wi nae legs,until a few years back,[afore computers came alang!!], a read aal aboot them,and its even mair fascinating hoo they have evolved! I once saw a film short at the pictures many years ago,[a natural history film],and it was a fight for survival between a Snake and a Mongoose,in the jungle,and most of it was just a blur..the movements were so fast. So hoo big will Lizzie grow once she reaches adulthood,Merc..?

Heh heh! A few months ago my Wife and me...[er...."I"....!!!] ,were sitting in our G.P.'s waiting room,in the Queue to see the Doctor. Naturally,most folk,young and old,had their smart-phones or tablets out on full display...nothing discreet! The lady in the seat directly in front of us,was keeping a very young kid entertained with her phone,which,it was hard NOT to notice,had an Arithmetical program displayed. The kiddie was typing in simple multiplication and division "sums",and passing the phone to her Mother [?],to answer the problem. The Lady was seriously counting on her fingers,and sometimes got the wrong answer! I thought ,no!,she is only keeping the bairn happy!,but after about half an hour,and various attempts at corrections,it became clear that the neither of them knew how to add 2x2!! I think the only 4x4 she probably knew was her poser jeep standing ootside!!.......[my sarky joke!] No black bridge standing there noo,up the Choppington fields,Pilgrim,nae pits! Nae open fields either,aal planted wi mature trees noo. Mind,it's a lovely waak through the Choppington Community Woods on a warm summer's day wi ya dog,reet from where the High pit used ti be,doon various offshoot paths,alang what WAS the railway line that brought thi High pit coal doon ti thi Low pit.

Hi Brian! He looks gorgeous...! Hoo did a prisoner get away wi that so lang? He musta been askin' for seconds at every mealtime and tekkin a doggy-bag back ti he's cell!!

".................................aye,Son!.............when aa was a lad Androids WERE Androids!.......ye cud actually TOUCH them wi ya thumbs........not like aal this new -fangled thought-processing telepathy stuff wat ye kids think aboot aal day......ye shud get yasel summick ti occupy ya brains man,it was hard work when aa was kid....ye had sair thumbs by thi end of ya shift..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Heh heh!