THE BRITISH THREAD II

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers are what gives Glasgow its high ranking in the nation's heart disease tables.

A fallow field has a meaning, Wlat, so I'll look it up for you:

ah yes, die Brachland

This has a resonance in the state of the brains of the students as they wander, in varying stages of inebriation, up and down Wilmslow Road.

So...

What's new?

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Oh, I forgot...

Did anyone watch the Panorama programme last night on N.E.E.T.S.?

And Jobcentre Plus?

I missed it (thanks for reminding me!)

Well, I emailed the BBC to ask if it was going to be repeated (on my Jobcentre email) and they replied straight away!

Here is the link they sent me if anybody is remotely interested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6956644.stm

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I don't watch that sort of telly smorgsie.

How's this for an image-



Does it, or did it, feel like that tripping by a line of chaps leaning against a wall.

School!

I went another bike ride today with two of my grandsons, the younger only being twelve, it was a limited ride of some eighteen miles, enjoyable.

I was thinking how things change so much in a few weeks, out of the five lads, four of them broke up from school in July, the elder of the four, he was sixteen started work last week!

So that's two of them working now.

One of them the youngest out of the bunch went back to school yesterday, the senior school.

The two I had with me today go back to school tomorrow morning.

It's been good fun for me the last few weeks. Bike rides with them. Football practice and a couple of games. Swimming, a few walks, beach, Anglezarke, Lake District.

Showing them how to do a few jobs on their own bikes etc.

I'm off to London on Thursday to see Prince. I suppose that will be an experience.


I'll let you know.

Panorama on NEETS- I wish I had seen that. Panorama usually passes me by, don't know why exactly, it's usually very good.

Cycling- well done Mathos. I have been using my bike a lot lately, for shopping and all. I'm getting a bit fitter. Will do some longer rides before the worst of the winter.

Spendy- what in tarnation was that? Caribbean, or Irish?

I've written to The BBC!

About the Panorama prog!

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That's sounds great Mathos! Firm up those thighs! Have a great time in Londinium, can't stand the place myself and avoid it at all costs.

Besides, what's London got that Manchester hasn't? Eh? Eh? Nowt! Everythings the same as here but more expensive, and no-one talks to you at the bustop.

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Muckty, don't wear your kilt on ya bike! Take my advice, it's worse than shorts. It may fly up! Temporarily blinding you and any pedestrians!

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sussy?

What's that?

Where have you quoted it from?

What are you doing?

Where are you going?

Where have you been?

Who are you?

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Visitors didn't stay long...

After we made 'em welcome as well...

Why do you think it is?

Too highbrow?

I always tend to think no-one reads this thread but us, but it seems they do! They just don't usually post on it. Is it me? Do I put people off? Do I come across as a mentalist?

I'm quite sane really.

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Good on you Mac. It was hard work a few few weeks back when I first started, but it's bloody good fun now. I'll miss the grandsons now they are back at school though, especially the older one of the two with me today, he's fourteen and we have covered a lot of miles together the last few weeks.


Yep, I bought a couple of lights on Saturday and will be fitting them to mine any day now, then I'm covered for dark cloudy days. I'm on a fitness run at present, and the cycling has been a real added bonus, I feel it has done me a lot of good. Feeling much more flexible and finding my long hill walks a lot easier. I'm knocking up fifty miles most days, did two days of over a hundred miles each day, but must admit that took a lot out of me.

I fancy getting up to scratch for a real long one, over a few days, maybe next year, about May, I wouldn't mind John O'Groats to Manchester for instance. It's an objective, but I'll see how I feel when I get back from the orient.

So if you see me pedalling like the clappers down Wellington Road South, give me a shout and I'll buy you a pint or a brew.

Finnegans Wake.

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Same as The Brunswick?

(The other one I photographed more than once is The Peveril Of The Peak)

Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, a gentle Irishman mighty odd
He had a brogue both rich and sweet, an' to rise in the world he carried a hod
You see he'd a sort of a tipplers way but the love for the liquor poor Tim was born
To help him on his way each day, he'd a drop of the craythur every morn

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

One morning Tim got rather full, his head felt heavy which made him shake
Fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and laid him out upon the bed
A bottle of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter at his head

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs Finnegan called for lunch
First she brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Biddy O'Brien began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
Tim avourneen, why did you die?", "Will ye hould your gob?" said Paddy McGee

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job, "Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy gave her a belt in the gob and left her sprawling on the floor
Then the war did soon engage, t'was woman to woman and man to man
Shillelagh law was all the rage and a row and a ruction soon began

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Mickey Maloney ducked his head when a bucket of whiskey flew at him
It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim
Bedad he revives, see how he rises, Timothy rising from the bed
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the flure yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake


Just for you duck! :wink:

I've been very, very drunk in there. Was years ago though, at a Union meeting.


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Yes it does.


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Is it actly big enough to go inside?

Where's your bloody question mark?

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Big enough, quite palatial by Manchester standards.

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Well actually, the last time I was was in there, a cat came in and asked to be swung...

We had to decline the feline request.

It wasn't big enough.

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spends?

Do you wear Long Johns in the winter?

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I wear LJs everyday unless the temp is over 72 F. Underpants are too much like knickers for my aesthetics. Besides they protect the hairs on my kneecaps and we all know how silly bald kneecaps look in romantic settings. They feel good too. Robert Redford looked good in them as did Charlie Drake and Max Wall.

I have a pair of pure wool itchers which I save for special occasions.