[Wizard]

Farmer a BS1 or a over engined Ruby style Great weren't they.Did you ever get the chance to drive an Austin Six we had one as a Taxi where I was apprentice

[Farmer]

Can't say that I did Wizard...but I too served an apprenticeship as a mechanic..a loooong time ago...when cars were cars and not computers on wheels! If I lift the bonnet these days I haven't a clue what I'm looking at!

Farmer, 

[doganjo]

I remember my Granda had an old Ford that he delivered his ice cream to small hotels in. (He had an Ice Cream Factory  yum yum) My cousin Stuart and I sometimes went with him. When I passed my test at 17 my uncle gave me the keys to the company Morris Oxford Estate car and told me to disappear for two hours to learn to drive properly   after that I was commissioned to take my Grandma out for a drive every Sunday afternoon, she used to take me in for afternoon tea in the best of country hotels.  A lovely lady!

[Jackie]

Lovely memories Annie. 

[Farmer]

I remember when I was around 5/6 when my parents had a smallholding and kept a few pigs; the styes were surrounded with a wall with a rounded top and the school boys used to have great fun walking along it and teasing the pigs...one day a local boy slipped and fell straight into the newly filled trough. It was 'Pig Swill' in those days and he was covered from head to foot and very frightened.

Luckily my father was around and he reached over and picked him out, then hosed him down in the yard before my mother took him in doors and dried him off. They fed him and loaned him some of dads clothes before taking him back to his parents...Mom washed and dried his clothes before taking them back the next day. His Father was so annoyed with him that he was made to come around and clean the pigs out for the next week...he never tried to walk the wall again! 

Farmer, 

[doganjo]

And that's what's wrong with our civilisation today!  Nowadays the smallholder would be made to put up fences to keep his 'wild' animals in, or get rid of them!

[Wizard]

"On a cloth untrue and a twisted cue and elliptical billiard balls"" Make the punishment fit the crime " wrote WS Gilbert in the Mikado.AND we still don't do we? Make the punishment fit the crime.

[Wizard]

Annie love Why should I tolerate your rotten horses pigs sheep diggin their toes in my took years to prepare bowling green? You love them dearly I would be tempted to empty an ounce an a sixteenth of No 6 on them HE HE HE 

[Jackie]

The week I was born Jonnie Ray was number 1 singing 'Just walking in the rain.'

What was it when you were born?

http://www.everyhit.com/dates/


Sorry George it doesnt go back as far as the stone age. 

[doganjo]

Huh, NOR the Post stone age 

[Wizard]

Well I don't care but one of the top songs was the Inkspots singing "Smoke gets in your eyes" a long time before the Platters It also sold a bundle of sheet music So There!

[RUSTYME]

Paul Anka singing 'Diana' was number 1 the week I was born...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuTbB-d12A0

since then he has been sitting in the back of many cars , just looking out of the rear window , head wobbling !!! .....what does he do that weird head wobble thing for ? ...lol.

cheers

Russ

[Helencus]

Oh I'm positively a child then. Jumpin jack flash by the stones was number 1 when I was born.

[sagehen]

Ack! Mine was Benny Hill's 'Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west)' 

[Farmer]

Ahh...the Inkspots George..."Whispering Grass"....always reminds me of 'IT Aint Arf Hot Mum'...what a typically British show...and very funny!

Farmer,