Joe Rooney

Cheers Mongo

Cympil and Dave,

Happy birthday to both of you.

Joe.

"Multiple birthdays" Such efficiency!

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Mongo,

There are the possibly irresponsible, who knows how much they suffer?

But then, there are the real scum, who take absolute delight in adding insult and cowardly abuse to both victim and family, based on nothing but wild supposition and personal envy, in place of fact.

I wonder how you will feel, if and when,the family are finally cleared? From what I have seen of your hatefilled writings, I doubt that it will be much, if anything at al!

Most fairminded people would shudder to think of being in this family's situation, and would want nothing more than the possible finding of this poor child, dead or alive. But then, you are not fairminded, are you? That would be no fun for a person with your malevolent soul!

Joe Rooney

hardly a grizzly bear! how many koala attacks do you hear of? the only dangerous things in austrailia are the spiders, 

snakes and the locals! top tip for visiting! dont wear a sheep skin coat! or your !*!@# will be putting!

You forgot about the Saltwater Crocodiles!

Bears only bother people if they feel threatened. I understand that Aussie crocodiles will hunt and attack people!

Joe

Erm, bears can climb trees, cant they?

"The dear little bears". Mature Black bears are over 350 lbs or so, while Grizzlies can top 600lbs upward.

Black bears can climb better than Grizzlies, but an irritated, hungry Grizzly can go most places it wants, through a metal garage door for instance, also up a tree, so long as the tree is sturdy enough!

Vic had it right when he said, that in Grizzly country you are better off to go walking with a slower friend. But you are even better off not to intrude on any bear, be it Black, Brown or Grizzly!

Joe, (too wise, and elderly, to be brave in bear country)!

what!   

I guess that I am way behind the news here!

The Parks and Recs people released a report on wild bear incursions this week.

It seems that Calgary has had incursions by 46 Black and Grizzly bears since August. The cause is believed to be the shortage of Berries in the Rockies since we had a very hot July killing off the crop.

Not only have we had a record number of bears roaming the streets, (Last years total was 19!) but the bears are surprisingly indifferent to encountering people. One had to be euthanised due to its aggressive nature towards people. The rest were anethetised (That does not look right), and returned to the mountains.

Of those captured, most were in local parks and gardens, but several had broken into home garages, and two brave Black Bears were captured after entering the emergency rooms of Rockyview, and All Souls hospitals, (through the automatic ambulance doors).

We are now being advised to keep our kids in view while they play in the back yards. This is in force until the berry season ends in mid October, when the bears are expected to return to the mountains to hibernate.

I don't think that this what they meant, when they had a campaign earlier this year encouraging citizens to welcome tourists to Calgary!

Joe

<<<<<At age 76 you will pass in your sleep from undiscerned natural causes. Unfortunately you will be sleeping nude in a local shopping mall.

Holy cow, well at least it looks like I go out either having fun or completely with no marbles...lol

No humorous comments!

Simply says I shall die at age 91.

Maybe I'll get to spend some of my money after all!

Joe

bah he's an ugly !*!@# him im pleased he's dead the fat useless !*!@#

That is too sad to elicit a response!

Joe

and from us way south of you Malcolm

Don't believe a word of it! Well, not all of them anyway!

Happy birthday Malcolm.

Joe

I like thaten mind

He was one of the top 6 favourites in my family!

My kids all got babysitters, and we went to New York to hear him sing. (All ten husbands, wives, mother and father.) It was the first time we had seen him in person, and we all fell in love with his voice, and his personality.

It is one of our greatest family memories.

God go with him!

Joe

austrailia is full of decendants from murderers and robbers, plus there al backwards not to mention there wierd obsestions with 

sheep

Monsta,

Clarify please!

Are you telling us that Australians are obsessed with the practice of "there wierd obsestions with sheep"

The rapid evolution of the English language is quite startling to we older expats.

No wonder that we have difficulty keeping up with the rapidity of change back home!

I doubt that I could survive an English class of such complexity!

Joe

Not one vote for Aussie, it must be the crawlies we have (snakes spiders crocs and whatever) actually i have not come across anything venomous for about two hours excluding her indoors of course, and don't forget the yowies.

I'll bite, Brian,

What's a "Yowie"?

I will probably regret asking, But somebody has to be the goat!

Joe

PS, If I wasn't living in Canada already, I would probably have said Australia!

is that the black bridge by the bank top pub? if so which side of the water are they on? blyth or bed?

Hi Monsta,

They fell in an irregular line on the North (Bedlington) side of the river. Two fell up in the slake, while the other four fell in the river downstream from the railway bridge.

At low tide, all six craters, which were quite wide, were clearly visible. But since that was some 66 years ago, I doubt that they would be noticeable now. Maybe up in the slake, but not in the river anyway.

A bomb disposal squad turned up, looked at it, had tea, and then left. So I guess they were satisfied that all had exploded. Or maybe they didn't fancy wading into that grey stinking slake!

By the way, on the original topic of a Zeppelin raid, there were some neighbours of ours had a socalled picture of the Zeppelin raiding Bedlington. Apparently they were flogged as real pictures of the event. But even to gullible kids like us, 10 and eleven years old they were painfully crude forgeries. A Zeppelin superimposed on a postcard of Bedlington!

One of my uncles told me that the story going around at the time, was that they came to bomb the Bedlington Iron Works. I doubt that the Germans were dumb enough, not to know that it had closed down in the 1860's or so!

Joe

what zeppelin came here? anyway theres a canny bomb crater down the burn! whats now earth ballance!

If you want bomb craters, there were about six of them starting about a hundred yards East of the Black LNER bridge. They were dropped in WW2 though, about 1941, and all fell short. Maybe they were an overshoot from an attck on Blyth shipyard!

Joe

The spiders and snakes might be alright, so are the coyotes and wolves but the bears and cougars are a bit more mean!

Vic

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/Local%20...ews/333020.html

Hi Vic,

When I read your post, my thought was " Thank God we only have coyotes in Calgary"!

WRONG!!! Yesterdays paper was agog with excitement. Not only have we had three bears running amok in Calgary,

(Two Black, and a young but muscular Grizzly,) in the last three days. But up in Canmore, (a small town up in the mountains toward Banff) they are looking for a 50lb cougar who grabbed a family dog out of the backyard

where two small kids were playing. The mother of the kids, hit the Cougar with a rock, making it drop the dog.

The dog suffered bad head wounds, and is hospitalised for a while, but will apparently recover.

Later the same night, this Cougar, came back and began to scratch at the back door, probably a hungry mother come back for family's Sunday brunch.

The animal control people are quite concerned about this one. Apparently it is very unusual for Cougars, to attempt to enter a house with people inside. But this one doesnt know that, and was determined to try.

The various bears were individually captured and released closer to the mountains. But now the authorities are begging people to leave the bears alone, and to stop congregating wherever they are. it seems that the bears are attracted by the practice of planting flowering fruit trees. Since the bears are stocking up on any kind of fruit in preparation for hibernation, these are an attractive source of food for bulking bears.

We live down in the Southwestern suburbs, on the edge of the TsuTina Indian reserve, and this is an animal pathway from the mountains to the city.

Coyotes are one thing, we hear or see them every night, but they only hunt rabbits, "or small cats". But when the Cougar or Grizzly start calling. Thats something else.

Much more difficult to handle than a bunch of Bedlington Charva's, drunk or sober!

Joe.

Joe. did they start production somewhere else as I remember their pop in the fifties. I remember a pop factory at the Station, not sure if it was Muters or Woods or am I just loosing my memory.

If you want the best source of information on Bedlington firms of the 50's and 60's, ask Evan Martin, or alternatively any housewife who was buying the groceries in those days. She would have to be in her 70's or 80's, but she would more likely know.

I left the UK in 1953, soe I wouldn't know about changes after that!

Joe.

Only the location has been changed, and the well known character's name slightly fuzzed.

Threegee,

Now the penny drops!

Until I read your quote, I didn't realise that this pair were supposed to be Andy Capp and Flo!

I never thought of these two characters as mid thirties, more likely 50's or 60's, and grungy to the extreme!

Annyway I like them, and anything that will improve Newbiggin is to be applauded.

Joe

Now that you mention it, they had those too! Ronnie Gibson is name that rings a bell. The same Gibson possibly?

Muters indeed! Pop factory at the station. Careful what you say about the family pop as the name lives on. Nice people the Muter kids, though I've lost touch. Yes, Woods soft drinks too, but weren't they Morpeth or somewhere else locally?

No.

Woods were down the the Furnace Bank, on the right hand side.

They closed just before the start of WW2.

I don't know when their factory building was demolished.

Joe

The only way to get Bedlington how you want it to be is to do it yourself.

More productive than whining and wishing, or the perennial "Somebody should do something!"

Joe

a bet ye cheated!

Since she enjoyed the game, she wouldn't dream of cheating! That would spoil the pleasure!

Congratulations to a fine winner!

Joe

I will be wearing a red rose and my poka dot shorts, can't wait to get up there.

Pete,

So glad to hear that you still enjoy life! Cambois would be fine for me right now.

Enjoy, Joe

wey tha's not bedlington gets left out every time! apart from some crap euro market with expensive rubbish, and a few jumble sales what actually happens at bedlington? al tell ye nowt!

and a tell ye i would get elected if a throo on a free beer tent!

Monsta,

I haven't read anything so cynical and sad since the days of Attlee's Labour party!

Joe

Monsta,

It depends on what you want to “put on” but in my experience the most important person is the one with the original idea! Normally, if it is sizable, you would get together with some other like minded people and give each a separate responsibility, one could deal with council, once could do the promotion work etc… and someone in the centre to bring it all together. It does require effort, even the smallest event, so don’t knock anyone for something they organise which has no interest to you personally, rather applaud their initiative and hard work.

Well said Malcolm,

Joe

how could i possibly do that? i haven't the faintest idea of how to oraganise events! or how to get through al the red tape attached! :lol:

Try learning by doing!

Just do it, and learn by your mistakes, and successses!

Joe

i think the locals have al getting that foot and mooth cause colonel knowledge thinks he a black hoody from the bronx or somit and swalnalla thinks he's everyone bit skitzy if you ask me!

what a pair or complete tw*ts if you ask me like! :lol: :lol: get a life!

Are we to believe that you hold yourself up as a shining example of this "Better Life" that you keep babbling on about?

If that is so, then God help us all!

Joe.

No food,no drink,no toilets,hard work,bring your own wheelbarrow and shovel..great fun? Not my idea of fun

How did the dig go? Did anyone turn up to help?

It could have been fun, and a little exercise to boot!

Joe