Keith Scantlebury

The way things are headed.

If anyone else made a mess like that every Thursday in the Market Place, they would be nicked for fly tipping.

I've only seen the Unthanks on the telly , a documentary and thought they were brilliant. I think it was Brett that whent to see them a year or so ago and I some comment about the Arran jumper brigade, I take it all back.

I wouldn't bother taking it back off him Merc, the back of it is all grass stained.

Brilliant musician.

well spotted that man !!!

I think the police helicopter may well have helped your situation Keith. My wife had just been to ASDA to do a big shop. No sooner had she piled it into the boot of a taxi, she legged it out of the car park in the direction of the Bebside Inn followed by two burly security men shouting at her. It turned out that she had somehow forgotten to pay for it. From where I was stood, I saw a shadowy figure , all sweaty , steaming and snorting come over the Furnace bridge, I thought to myself that they should really take a look at that fence at the top of the Hairpin Bank, the horses are getting out again. Later on at home (while I was sewing the hem of my raincoat), she told me that she hid in a tree not far from the car park. The helicopter arrived, presumably to look for her. It hovered over a landrover that was rocking pretty violently, till some officers on the ground arrived and removed the occupants and put them into a van. These poor people were naked ( she was close enough to see and hear what was going on) and she thought that they were getting ready to go for a dip in the river. She saw a figure slink into the woods and hide behind that big old conker tree, she did see that whoever it was seemed to be in some sort of distress, choking on something. She over heard the cops saying that the thermal imaging equipment on the chopper (what was it you were choking on ?) was being used to hunt for a prolific, repetative shoplifter but it picked up some scorching images in the landrover. They did say that there were some rather cooler images coming from the woods but they just attributed that to the local low wild life . Did she dislodge your sausage when you broke her fall from the tree ? 1O minutes after she got home the shopping arrived in the taxi. I cant understand why she took the taxi driver behind the shed to pay him. ( maybe thats where she hides her purse )

Brett, If I'd known you had an open fire or wood burner you could have had an old 8x4 shed that I scrapped a couple of months ago. I asked around but nobody wanted, I ended up burning it outside.

Who's Les ?

Well folks, the lights on the Christmas tree outside Sleekburn House have been switched of and removed along with the P.C. banner today, 23/01/2013. However, the tree is still up , lets see ....... :thumbsup:

Seen it all through my binocculars and jam jar bottom spectacles, I tried to come to your aid Keith but I tripped over the hanging hem of my old raincoat, (it did let me down, despite what Rod Stewart said).

I must have missed this bit when Andrew - whatsisname ( Kenny Rodgers' love child) was on his feet yacking the other night.

Good idea, and when we eventually get Hartford Hall gates back we can reposition them across the road as toll gates (Blazing Saddles style) We, the slack jawed, banjo playing yokels of a backwater shire in the South (east Northumberland) will pick up our pitchforks and rebel . REBEL !!! I tell ya'll REBEL !!!!!

Aye, not too bad Brett . As you say estates are not the priority. The main roads, A1, A 697, A 68, A69, A689 etc along with bus routes and schools / hospitals need to be cleared. There is one thing though, why does it all seem to be a mad panic at the last minute ? Its not as if it has not been forecast. Also, my daughters other half came in from work on Friday, was in the house an hour when he was called out for the gritting teams. He does another 14 hours at work. Next morning he had some breakfast and jumped into bed. He had only been in bed 10 mins when his works phone rings and its his gaffer shouting and screaming and asking where the hell he is, hes needed on the gritters. The phone gets out down sharpish.

An old subject ... or two old subjects ?

I only know who 2 of those are !!

Nooooooooooooooo ................................. me bently takes up too much room

There was also an abundance of clay to get rid of. We were going flat out to get as much as we could into Ibstock Brick at Throckley. They could take no more and as it happened several hundred tonnes had to be thrown out (backfilled into Red Barns Quarry). This had to be moved so the underpass could be built under the road at the Delhi opencast. Also Castle Clay could not take anymore from Shotton so this meant that Banks had zillions of tonnes of clay to dispose of................. Northumberlandia. (or was it just a coincidence that all that clay and waste material was going spare)

YUP !!

rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit ,rabbit , rabbit, and more rabbit !!!!!

I tipped some of the clay to build it . Gonna lay claim to the right boob

Hey, Maggie, dont go grovelling to him he's got the hide of a rinoz rhonfh rynf a big animal from Africa with horns on its nose. Make him apologise to you for reading it through the bottom of a beer glass !!! :thumbsup:

There was a pedestrian gate beside the signal box