Keith Scantlebury

My youngest got a PSP GO for xmas and we are having difficulty connecting it to the wireless router. We have followed the instructions to the letter and when we get to the last instruction it says The access point was not detected the signal of the access point may be weak or the SSID you entered may not be correct. We took it back to comet and even their games geeks were confused as it was new to them as well, but after about 1 1/2 hours they got it sorted .When we got home and whent through it all again .. still nothing. Our phone and internet package is with talktalk and all we have connected to the router is 2 laptops and a wireless printer. The router is able to take 5 devices, so that should not be a problem. Can anyone please help?

The whole thing stinks to the high heavens. I would not be surprised if they got away with it completely, or it takes so long to deal with , it would just fizzle out. Like I have said before if it was me I would get clattered cos if I so much as farted in a clean air zone I would get nicked for it.

I totaly agree. Just cannot see any reason he had to hide the fact he was the owner in the first place. Maybe he was a little shy to big the place up and admit he was at the helm

Him speak with forked tongue. In the consumer forum When it was suggested that he worked there he said "no I work in Morpeth, I just call in when I pass through" See, my talents are wasted should have been a snoop.

For as long as I can remember, the people of bedlington have been asking for a sports centre. When Blyth got their swimming pool, we asked for one. Ashington and Blyth had one so we wanted one. The then council [ Bedlington Urban District Council ] told us we had a perfectly good pool at Humford. It was not too long before Newbiggin got a sports centre, then Cramlington [ or vice versa ] then eventually Ashington and Blyth got theirs improved as well. We, the people of Bedlington asked again , Wansbeck said no, Newbiggin had theirs brought up to date. Ashington had theirs closed, the others in the area continued to improve, oh, I forgot to mention that in the meantime Humford pool closed and was made into a car park [which attracted pervs at night so they had to lock it] Now we are looked after by the very capable and extremely competent people known to us as Northumberland County Council [ yes, I have been on the sauce], so it will be a very cold day in hell before Bedlington gets anything resembling a sports centre [ unless Mr.Tesco wants to build us one as a thank you for allowing them to rip a perfectly good town centre apart.... methinks not]. No doubt NCC will continue to look after their favourites, Alnwick, Morpeth and Hexham, after all, the tourists need to be looked after dont they?

Malcolm do you ever get the feeling that you are talking to yersel. All the posts on here , bar 1 , are from you ...... Maybe you are just a frustrated european finance correspondent. lol. never mind, there are people you can be referred to that can sort you out, until then just carry on bashing the keys, youre a trooper lol.

I can remember them in the Railway but I am to young to have known them in the Tankerville. Can't say that I remember a son but they did have a daughter, Florence, who worked in the pub........ The only thing i really know about the Tankerville , is that I used to work for the Earl of Tankerville at Chillingham [with the wild cattle among other things] The pubs that are named after them are far more interesting than the family. The dowager Lady Tankerville had. to be the most eccentric woman I have ever known. There were certainly a few disorientated bats in her loft to say the least.

You are absolutely spot on there Merlin. The phrase pxxxing against the wind comes to mind

ASDA was started by a group of yorkshire dairy farmers ASDA = Associated Dairies = it was not a particuarly small company from the start. The vegetable growers from the east riding and north lincolnshire soon joined in and helped to make asda a major player from the word go.

I agree Vic, I have seen the buyers from the big supermarkets many times at the livestock mart. They are sent to buy weight, not quality. As cattle enter the sale ring they pass over a weighbridge. The buyers from the likes of asda and tesco just bid for the early entries until they have purchased their designated weights. A good butcher spends time looking at the beasts before deciding on which ones he would like to bid for, cattle that are "finished" properly kill out better and the carcase would be hung for 3 or 4 weeks before butchering for sale. Hung meat should not be confused with the supermarket term of MATURED MEAT. Matured meat is butchered straight away, vaccuum packed and stored in a coldroom for a few weeks before being distributed to the stores and stuck on the shelves . That is why you get the packs with the absorbant pads in them to soak up the blood. Beef that has been hung properley is more brown in colour and when you press it w,hith your thumb you should leave an indentation, matured beef , on the other hand, is still bright red and when you press it, it springs back much quicker. There are still many butchers who attend the marts themselves, buy livestock and have them sent to their chosen abatoir.

I hate places like ASDA and TESCO, but the fact is they make shopping too easy [one stop shopping]. They have turned the knack of depriving you of your hard earned cash into an art form. I would much rather go to a proper grocer and baker etc. The quality is much better and as Malcolm says, it is easier to see the boss if need be. We never buy supermarket meat as we have a perfectly good butcher in Bobby Cowell who has served us well for years. What we need is another Pop Clowston [remember him?] I dont think we woluld spend too much more if we used the smaller shops because we would be more likely to only buy what we actually went in for and not be conned into 2 for 1 deals on something we dont want.

My daughters boyfriend, who works for N.C.C., has been told not to plough and grit at the same time. This is for health and safety reasons as they are two seperate jobs and doing both at the same time would affect concentration levels. He has also been sent on a course to learn how to climb in and out of a tractor cab.

I wonder if they were the same Extons that were in the Railway Tavern during the 1970's

Thanks Andy. We had a little help from the Chemist but willpower is still needed. I bottled some wine yesterday and got stuck into some last night. I was worried that the taste of drink would trigger the craving for a tab, but I was fine. Just goes to show that it was more to do with people smoking arround you [before the ban] in pubs that made you crave a tab rather than the taste of the drink. [although I must say that I smoked helluva lot more while drinking wether it was at home or in the boozer].

Thanks Malcolm.

Shhhhhhhhhhhh I've not had a tab for 6 weeks me and the wife both stopped together after 35 years on them...... now and then could kill for one. ARRRRRRRRRRGH

It was converted into a veterinary surgery in 1968. Dont know exactly when pub closed though

Yes Malcolm, would this be the French farmers that would be at the port with their second best tractor helping the French fishermen to blockade the said port in protest against the E.U. regulations that dont make economic sense to them. While they are doing this, farmer Smith who lives and works in beautiful Devon is sitting at the breakfast table, shaking his head, reading about "The froggy militants" spoiling it for all of us, then sends his wife off to the post box with a cheque to pay his fine for working too hard the previous year. Now, which one of those need their heads read.

I used to work for an A.I. [cattle breeding] company and part of the job was to take farmers to Europe, mainly Italy but also France,Holland and Germany.We would take them to the major Holstein shows in each country, but we would visit many farms so that they could inspect the progeny of the bulls we used. No matter which country we were in ,when the C.A.P. was mentioned, the "european" farmers would physically laugh out loud at their U.K. contempories. Without exception they would tell us that U.K. farmers are too soft, and too afraid of our own government and we are only too content to be the beating boys of the E.U. The same applied to quotas. When we would stick as close as we could to our allocated milk quota, the Italians [among others] would carry on producing milk regardless. This country would spread the superlevy among the U.K. producers and they would simply cough up. The Italians would simply tell their government to get stuffed and the government would just pay the superlevy and the farmers would carry on producing milk regardless.[and get paid for it] I think being called the beating boys of the E.U. is quite a polite description of us. Please feel free to post more accurate descriptions of us that would amuse our european partners.

Afraid thats all I can remember about Boris Karloff, but the real character was Ned Metcalfe, he was a brilliant bloke, well I thought so anyway. He used to spend a lot of time in our garden, and his, with my dad. Threegee may know a little more about him though, whith being involved with the Gardeners Arms

Threegee, when did the Gardeners close, do you know? Reason why is , I was delivering in Inverness earlier this year and believe it or not an old guy [he must have been well over 80] came up to me after seeing the address on the cab door, and asked where I from. He was from Bedlington and moved up there in 1960 the Gardners was the only place he would drink in and he looked absolutely devasted when I told him, among other things, that the Gardeners was long gone, but for the life of me I cannot remember when it actually shut.

Try James'. He still has a coal round dosn't he ?

ha-----HEM............ Just testing

Ask half the poulation of Bedlington and they wouldn't be able to tell you who William Gooch was Andy. Thats the first Iv'e heard of the origins of "Paid on the nail" , I must admit. All I'm saying is, if asked, people should say where they are from, not , near here or close to there. If you are from Bedlington, say so. If it bothers you that they don't know where it is, let them ask you. Just don't say near Newcastle and be done with it.

Does anybody remember The Gardeners arms?. I was looking back on some previous topics today and was reading with interest about Bedlingtons claims to fame and how Bedlington could best be promoted throghout the world to bring in visitors Camille continued on the theme of the Bedlington terrier and how it may have been created because of a bet in the Gardeners Arms. I do not know if that is how the Bedlington actually came into being what it is today [ I know it was bred fom a Rothbury Terrier] but she is possibly not too far away with her facts. As I have mentioned before, I used to live in the market place when I was a kid. On [very odd] occasions my dad used to take me with him to the Gardeners Arms on a Sunday morning. The landlord was a friend of my dads , he was a character called Ned Metcalfe. Ned was a prominent and well respected breeder of Bedlington terriers and he bred them in kennels behind the pub. [behind front st. east]. Ned and I shared a birthday and he used pull me a "special" pint [1/2 a very weak shandy] On one such occasion, I could only be about 6 or 7 years old, the Gardeners was a bit busier than normal and a few of the "strangers" were very well dressed. Ned introduced us to a couple called Bill and Evie, Bill was a breeder of Bedlingtons and was here to take one or two away down south and maybe to America he said. This guy, Bill, I remember, was the perfect gentleman and seemed very popular [i remember being a bit peeved at not getting my normal attention from Ned], probably because he bought more than his fair share of rounds. Also I remember telling my dad that the bloke gave me the creeps, Bill heard me and broke into hoots of laughter. I later found out that this couple were none other than Boris Karloff [real name William Pratt] and his wife Evie. I know he came back to the Gardeners a few times in the 60's before he apparrently became crippled with arthritis, then he used to send someone else. On the point of promoting Bedlington, it would help if some people would actually admit to coming from here when asked where they come from. Where ever I have been in this country, or abroad , if someone asked where I came from I would proudly say BEDLINGTON then let them ask where bedlington is and then I would tell them that it is a small town in Northumberland. I saw Jayne Middlemas being interviewed on telly not long ago and she told the interviewer that she was from "near Newcastle". Yet Ross Noble told an audience on t.v. that he came from Cramlington. Could be that Ms Middlemass feels that Bedlington is not up there with the best places to come from , unlike Ross Nobles Cramlington or the Charlton brothers' Ashington.