Keith Scantlebury

DOH !!!!!

Heard today that the Ridge Farm is closing on Monday, another one bites the dust.

You mean NOT Spock !!!

This would be handy for a trip 4 miles north .

He's actually sorting something for me at the moment, well Grace Boyle is

I know GGG its ........... SPOACHING ,,,,,,,, wheres me prize I want it now.

M.P.? Surgery ?? might go along and see what he can do about this pain in me arse.

It was a Sunday and it is quite possible that it may of been raining

I agree Paul, people look back with fond memories of the pits. They are part of our heritage and have played a huge part in shaping the communities, they're gone, full stop,period. Nothing lasts forever. Bedlington is a much cleaner, prettier place without them. I for one would not like to return to the days when the skyline was dominated by a mountain of pit waste and there was a taste of soot and sulphur in the air, the gold old days weren't as rosy as people painted them. As they say " Nostalgia is not what it used to be "

Thats Brilliant Brett.

Methinks it may be a bit close to Newcastle airport to be up there dangling in a tub below a 3 story bag of wind

....so speaks Friar Malcolm ( 15th cousin to Rasputin - twice removed-)

G'Day stranger

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).