Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Yes Malcolm, it's your turn and And 'you' need to go on and on, and on, and on.

It can't last for ever!

Please Mr Ashley, the worst has past,

now pay your dues,

weve all made mistakes but don't blame Pardews.

You'll bring us fame and fortune and everything that goes with it

cos really we are the champions

and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.

I now need SAFC to escape relegation by more than 6 points; NUFC can't be held responsible!

Maggie I used to save many a thing but not anymore. I'm not frivolous or a spend thrift just living today's society. If we didn't replace goods frequently would there be enough employment for the increasing population to make money to buy more goods.

I would say for our generation it was not just tradition but necessary to help make ends meet.

We were brought up with it. Nothing was thrown away, just in case a use was found for an item years later. We were taught to reuse everything rather than spend more cash on replacing an object that could be reused. We can use the old sayings like - 'things aren't built t last anymore' and 'kids today just don't know they are born ' etc.

How many people used to have a garage that you couldn't get you car into! The garage was full of materials from jobs done ages ago but we would never throw the surplus out.

My spare planks of knotty pine, from the 80's, lay in my old garage for years. They lay next to the spare pieces of - plaster board, sheet(s) of hardboard, rough and dressed wood cut off the  6ft/8ft planks etc.,unless you got the exact length you required from Keenleyside's off-cut bucket! Jars full of nails and screws, some nails I had even straightened out after extracting them from used timber. Today would we use 20 different off-cuts and a couple of doors to build a fence? My uncle Luke, Dr. Terrace, never worked after his encounter with a detonator from the Dr Pitt, used to look after at least 3 gardens growing fruit and veg and I remember every shed, greenhouse, partition fence etc. was made from recycled materials.

I remember my mam buying a houseplant that decided to grow and required extra support to assist it's growth so my dad did not go out and buy any canes etc he pushed the spare size 0 knitting needles (no longer required as the hippie chunky knitwear of the 60's had died out) into the pot as support.

I still try and convince our grandkids that most of today's toys & gadgets are just the old stuff with new packaging.

Could go on and on but wont. Recycle Maggie. Fill the charity bags and let the charities decide what they can reuse.

As for superstition, throw that out. Walk under ladders; cross people on the stairs in the house; put your umbrella up in the house.

But you are not crackers, just conscientious.      

Red N White or Black N White?

 

Enough said...........

 

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Now it's obvious from those pictures who won the beers!

Red N White or Black N White?

 

Enough said...........

 

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That's because we have won, most of, the bets!

Talk is cheap Eggy!  

 

Shape up or ship out!  

 

 

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I didn't make myself clear - the bet is on - draw at the end of normal time goes to you.

The only problem is getting my mobility scooter into The Red Lion, but I will do my best.

I will switch on the match at 16:00 to see how Gloomy Sunday is going! 

OK chaps lets see what ya made of.

 

A foaming pint of the Red Lion's finest says Man C don't win after playing 90 mins.  

 

Only fair I get the draw!  

You can have -  the draw -  divine intervention - game abandoned after 20mins due to a nuclear explosion - World War III breaks out if Sunderland score.

Sunday 02/02/2014 14:00 will see another cover version of the Hungarian composer RezsÅ‘ Seress 1933 Gloomy Sunday released by SAFC Supporters Group.

 

So what your saying Eggy is recycling is available but not very well publicized and not made easy!

 

Sorry Vic - should have said - Easy but not publicized - We were not aware, we just knew that Seghill was closing but had no information publicizing the Bebside site we n ow had to use. Once we had visited, with waste, we were impressed with the setup. Equally impressed with the way the workers informed and assisted their customers. It was easy to use.

And, just remembered - they even had a collection point for charities. So if you had any household item , toy etc. that could be reused then it could be left at this point for the charities to inspect and take what ever they wanted. Even the workers were identifying goods that could be added to the charity point. 

Malcolm

I think they should resign the old 1973 FA Cup 'GB' team:- 

GK          1              England Jimmy Montgomery

RB           2              Scotland Dick Malone

LB           3              England Ron Guthrie

CM         4              England Micky Horswill

CB           5              England David Watson

CB           6              England Richie Pitt

RCM      7              Scotland Bobby Kerr ©

RW         8              Scotland Billy Hughes

ST           9              England Vic Halom

LCM       10           Scotland Ian Porterfield

LW          11           England Dennis Tueart

Manager: England Bob Stokoe

They stand more chance of winning.

I see they actually beat Man City in Round 5 of that 1973 win so Man City should be out for revenge in this Capital One Cup!!!

There were Beatle Drives each week at Bedlington Station YM CA if my memory serves me well. Somewhere near the library.

We still have some solid furniture but the cost recovering is quite off putting.

Maggie - there's a new topic for you to start - Bedlington YMCA - now Cherry Tree Court

Before I was allowed out on my own, at night, I was dragged to The Beetle Drive held in the YMCA. Me mam's aunt, Elsie Humble, used to help run it.

The garages on the right of the picture used to get used for various activities - eg. weight lifting and car maintenance.

Recycling! They've got it off to a fine art here and it's compulsory. We  recycle so much stuff here that the bin man comes only once a month and the wheelie bin (of the small variety) is never full. Those who package their Products  are obliged to take care of the used packaging, so many companies have gone together and started a recycling Company who are responsible for the Collection Points. Furniture stores, like Ikea, provide package reclamation on site if you want to get rid of the packaging Before you leave the store. The list of recyclable materials is growing all the time but at the minute we have, both at home and at the Collection Points, separate containers for:

 

paper, glossy

paper, newsprint

cardboard, (carton) thin

cardboard and corrugated cardboard

glass, uncoloured

glass, coloured

plastic packages, hard

plastic packages, soft

polystyrene

cartons

batteries and lightbulbs

dangerous waste (paint, cleaning fluids, oil etc)

metal, containers tins etc.

metal, non-containers (kitchen ware etc)

textiles

electrical goods

compostible material - but only if you don't have compost yourself. If you don't,  then you must have a Collection every second week. If you have your own compost you can have Collection once a month, as I do.

 

All that can be washed must be clean and dry and you take it to the Collection Point yourself. These are often placed adjacent to the car park at super markets or on the outskirts of villages. Furniture stores,  such as Ikea

Fridges, freezers and washig Machines are collected on request

For larger items there are 3 Days a year when the wagon is stationary in the nearest village for 4 hours

There's a second-hand shop (or 2) in almost every Town.

I think our problem is we do not push /promote recycling as much as the rest of the world. Our tip at Seghill had half a dozen skips for different types of bulk waste so what didn't go in our Green, Blue or Brown bins could be taken to the tip and thrown into the appropriate skip. When they closed the Seghill site there was a sign at the gates saying the site was closed for tipping but no info on the new site. When we eventually found out what site was available to us, Bebside, and took and old carpet and underlay we were amazed at the facility and how they were separating the waste. May not be as efficient as the rest of the world but definitely impressive for what we have had in the past! And every time we have been the guys working there were always helping anyone that needed help.

A cut down version of the info on the web site:-

A list of what can be recycled and disposed of safely at Northumberland Household Waste Recovery Centres.

Facilities at Northumberland Household Waste Recovery Centres

http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=12513

Collected at all 12 centres

Automotive = Tyres - Car batteries - Used engine oil

Garden waste for composting in Northumberland County

Electrical - for all electrical items except mobile phones and inkjet cartridges

Small electrical items - Large electrical items

Fridges - Light bulbs and fluorescent tubes logo - Batteries - Phone chargers/other chargers

Mobile phones and inkjet cartridges are only collected at 5 of 12 centres

These are: Kirkley Thorn, Prudhoe, Hexham, Allendale and Haltwhistle

Gas bottles        

Glass bottles and jars

Green, Brown and Blue- collected mixed

Mixed glass bottles and jars

Clear bottles and jars are collected in their own separate containers

Clear glass bottle and jars

Other glass, for example, window glass or heat treated glass (eg Pyrex) are not accepted for recycling in the bottle banks as they are made from different materials to bottle glass. These items melt at different temperatures to standard glass bottles, causing problems with the recycling process if mixed. Glass- other Broken crockery and kitchen glass items Sheet glass- broken windows/mirrors etc collected at all 12 centres in the rubble skips

Sheet glass- most types collected in the rubble skips. Certain glass types such as car windscreens can not be placed in the rubble skips as they contain a plastic covering.

Metals

Cans - Aerosol cans - Large tins

Scrap metal collection points

There are can banks and scrap metal collection points at all 12 Household Waste Recovery Centres

Can collection points - Cans must be empty and clean - Aerosols must be empty

Biscuit and sweet tins are also collected in the can banks

Certain metal items such as copper items may be collected separately for recycling. Please check with the site attendant on duty at your local centre when you visit.

Metal electrical items are collected at the electrical collection points and not with the scrap metal.

Aluminium foil: This is not collected in the household kerbside recycling scheme. However, if it is completely clean it may be accepted in the metal skips at some of the Household Waste Recovery Centres. Please check with the site attendant on duty at your local centre when you visit.

Paint Paint cans - Dry, empty metal paint cans can be placed into the scrap metal containers

Paper    All clean paper, but not shredded paper – Cardboard (Please flatten boxes and remove all polystyrene and other plastic wrappings from the cardboard before recycling.

Plastic bottles All types of plastic bottles, including shampoo bottles, plastic milk bottles and empty cleaning bottles.

Please rinse and remove lids where possible Please do not place other plastic items such as plastic trays and pots into these containers.

Hard plastics e.g plastic garden furniture and plastic toys (non-electrical)

Due to the current economic climate the markets for hard plastics are not very reliable at present. For this reason, these items may not always be recycled. Work is ongoing to establish more sustainable markets.

Tetra Paks/ Cardboard cartons - Cartons

These are collected separately to cardboard as they contain a mixture of materials and are therefore recycled in a different way.

Textiles – Clothes - Shoes

Please check with the site attendant on duty at your local centre when you visit.

Collected at 11 of 12 centres

Books, music CD's, DVD's and computer games collected together in the same bank

Books  - Music CD's and DVD's - Bric-a-brac

Collected at 8 of 12 centres

Carpet

Separate collection points at all 12 centres

DIY materials – Plasterboard – Rubble - Wood

Chipboard- Please ask advice from the site attendant on arrival at your local centre

Asbestos must not be taken to any of the Household Waste recovery Centres

From the Second Hand Shop in Blyth, somewhere on Regent Street, we would swap any old books or comics they would take for Mad magazines - Alfred E. Neuman -

Spy v Spy.

British Forces Broadcasting was it the World (wide) Service "Two Way Family Favourite's" Played requests from servicemen overseas, we had a couple.

Pete Murray on radio Luxemburg. Dan Dare "Journey into Space" with the Mighty Meccon!

Thank you Vic - been nagging the wife up trying to remember  Two Way Family Favourites. 

The Wireless. If we were lucky, in the winter, and me dad had worked overtime and managed to buy some extra coal from the mining neighbourhood (Temple's or Cavaghan's) then the 'front-room' fire was lit and the radiogram with built in record player was switched on.

The Navy Lark & Round the Horne (both can still be heard now on iPlayer 4Extra) - The Goons - 

Peter Brough Educating Archie - was he the only ventriloquist on the wireless?

Now I'm struggling with the actual name - British Forces Broadcasting was it the World (wide) Service?

The Clitheroe Kid. Listen here Pop Pickers, the chart show with Pete ____ ? Radio Luxembourg.

Board game - draughts (checkers), Monopoly or Taxi.

Flat Yorkshire Pudding baked in one large tin where the sides rose up the tin to form a nice crunchie bit whilst the bottom of the tin was spongey.

Rice (milk) pudding. I hated the skin that formed on the top.

The Sunday Post - Oor Wullie, The Broons and a page of jokes.

Save electricity me dad would play the accordion or the organ powered by the two large foot pedals. Various stoppers on it to change the tone.

Reedy, I was very interested to see your Picture of "Bowers, The Neuk" yesterday. I got a book for my Birthday called Bedlingtonshire now and then written by Evan Martin. On page 30 there's aphoto of a James Bower with a horse and cart. I Think it say's General Dealer on the side of the cart but it looks more like a rag and bone man. It says that:

 

"Mr James Bower provided transport for all occasions. Not a lot of house removal (shifting) took Place as the colliery folk especially tended to stay in the same property for many years. If the move was necessary, Mr Bower was reliable and available, even though the cartage was basic."

 

Could it be the same family?

My book by Evan Martin - The Archive Photographs Series BEDLINGTONSHIRE' first published 1997 shows another photograph, 1900 approx, of Jimmy Bower's son, Robert and his half sister Bertha. They are standing, holding the horses by those horsey bits that are fitted over the horses heads. The script with this photo is 'Jimmy Bower set up a chrabanc and coach business in Muggers Neuk - He also hired out marquees and tents'. There is another photo on the next page and is of The Bowers lodging house and other Neuk property around the corner from Rosella Place.

Would say it was the same family and he was into everything that required a horse and cart (and horsey bits).

Was that not Pears soap that was amber and oval? Was it kind of transparent?  Wright's is right though. However, I remember it as a Dirty beige/Brown opaque soap.

Canny lass I would have backed Symptoms. I had to check, and I would have lost my bet:-

Are there any other memories of the miner's strike apart from the political issues? I remember it well for several reasons. I was working as a ward sister at the time and can still vividly recall two patients, both men in their late 70's, who were admitted with severe hypothermia due to not having any coal to light the fire at home. Both were retired miners. It was a tragic sight.

 

The other thing I remember were my nurses on the ward. Many of them were miner's wives. They were hungry due to lack of food and tired due to lack of sleep caused by worry. They were continually upset that their Children were also hungry and going to school without breakfast. They were sad to see their husbands becoming shadows of their former selves due to the stress of the strike and what it was doing to the family. Many voiced opinions about the strike to me that they didn't dare admit to their husbands.

 

I tried to see that their was Always food on the ward for them while they were at work by ordering the full quota of patient meals, even if their wasn't a full quota of patients, and their are quite a few Children who got some sort of breakfast thanks to all the extra bread, jam and cornflakes that we ward sisters stocked up with and then turned a blind Eye when it disappeared.

I personally was not affected but on behalf of many I knew at the time a thank you and your sisters.

Thank you everyone for your very kind wishes. I spent a pleasant morning shovelling snow and a pleasant afternoon dancing around the Xmas tree with the grandchildren, followed by the family plundering the tree of everything that's edible, as is the custom here every year on 13th January. I actually managed to get a Cadbury's chocolate bell! Oh the sheer luxury! Happy memories.

 

Foxy, I don't mind all these Candles. I feel that I'm doing this household a service by keeping the lighting bills down. I'm also doing the environment a service in causing  less trees to be cut down to provide Wood to heat the house.

 

Eggy, my crossing out and underlining problems are a thing of the past. If only someone with the right know-how could solve the new problems of mid-sentence capital letters popping up here and there, as well as my not being able to quote anyone, then this old woman would be very happy.

 

Thanks again to everybody.

Don't know if this will help young lady but it can't do any harm to try and you could end up a happy youngin selecting your 'Quote' Radio button. Java and Radio buttons are something I have ever 'played' with but I did remember noticing a setting on my Google Chrome web browser menu about Java. 

- if you right click with your mouse on the 3 horizontal bars in the top right hand corner of the screen you will get your browser settings displayed.

I have done a bit of checking and even found a site that gives a guide on how to check that Java is enabled within various browsers :-  http://enable-javascript.com/

For Google chrome:-

1.    On the web browser menu click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" and select "Settings".

2.    In the "Settings" section click on the "Show advanced settings..."

3.    Under the the "Privacy" click on the "Content settings...".

4.    When the dialog window opens, look for the "JavaScript" section and select "Allow all sites to run JavaScript (recommended)".

5.    Click on the "OK" button to close it.

6.    Close the "Settings" tab.

7.    Click on the "Reload this page" button of the web browser to refresh the page.

As I would expect the Default setting would be to Allow all sites................' I am not too hopeful but you never know. If nothing else we might just prompt the experts on this site to come to your aid and make next years dancing around the xmas tree Radio controlled.

ps. as for capitla letters popping up  I can only add - I have the same problems because I keep cathing the Caps Lock key when typing the letter 'A'.!

In Canny lasses birthday post she mentions wood for the burner and that to me means - open fire and REAL toast. Not grilled or electric toasted but a slice of bread on a toasting fork over real flames. The 1950's Rayburn stoves installed in all the house in Coquetadle Place were ideal for real toast. Also remember the large black ranges that were in the houses in the Barrington pit rows and I would assume were just as good. Can't find a picture of what was installed in Coquestdale, Rayburn with the black chimney pipe, oven and fire place (with door) but this one is similar:-

An absolutely simple pleasure on a cold day. The whole family, 6 of us, would sit around the oven. Me dad toasting and me mam buttering. We could go through a whole loaf in half an hour and all be fed, warmed and have 'corned-beef' features from sitting to close to the fire.

If the bread was too soft and would curl around the toasting fork when the first side was toasted the rest of the bread to be used would be placed on the warm oven shelf, for just a few seconds, to dry it out slightly and prevent the slice from curling up too much. 

When the father-in-law's, Cramlington, council house was upgraded from coal to gas (approx 1990) we had a real toast party on the coal fire's last day. The kids just thought we were mad but we knew it would probably be out last taste of real toast.

Happy Birthday Canny Lass. One will have no control over this increase!   You can't strike this one out! But perhaps you can, now that you are wiser?

This mankin geet glakey chep was doon on honkas, looked like he was on the bog – or was it on a mat or poe, i a think it was.  

Thanks for that Mike.

Promise not to nag you for info!

Done