Just been out for a paper to the co op in town,met up with "cockney Lil" after hearing a loud voice with a cockney accent shout,"too skinny to get it delivered then?" I told her the papershop are not going to send a lad on a bike three miles with one paper,she passes us daily in her car but turned down my offer of employment as a delivery girl.,this is the kind of silly banter we indulge in here in the sticks,with not a thought of imposing restrictions on speech.
Just heard of a story featured in the Telegraph,an Iraqi man sent a bomb in the post ,but failed to put a stamp on the parcel,the post office returned it to sender,and forgetting what it was he opened it,one bomber less!this is true.
I remember being told a similar tale during the Irish troubles,by a leading politician over there,two lads went into a bar ,one of them brandishing a pistol gave everyone two minutes to get out before the bomb went off,turned to his pal and said "place the bomb" the reply was "I haven't got it, I thought you were bringing it,"true story.
I noticed yesterday that one of the muslim countries have stoned a woman to death,this in the name of a medieval superstition masquerading as a philosophy on life, it amazes me that these religious bigots of all creeds and I include ALL religions ,are able to convince people that what they advocate is a reasonable way to live,with censorship of any and all opposing ideas.
On a sombre note,my old friend and former working partner Brian is in a bad way in hospital in Sheffield, we had a few laughs together as we collaborated on certain jobs,I remember one incident where a nameless individual,offered me cheap whisky,Brian and me being over partial to a drop of this precious fluid,I gave the go ahead to bring a case(6bottles)to a job I was helping Sam the pom on,opening the case I noticed that the bottles were labelled in the Cyrillic alphabet
(Russian) it was Latvian Whiskey,luckily I am able to read russian ,and pointed this out to Mr.O.
who said what do you expect for a fiver a bottle.
On presenting the booze to Brian at his workshop,I pointed out that it was probably a bit of a gamble if one were to imbibe the contents ,but we had a taste and it was a little like Jack Daniels,I decided not to avail myself of the offer but Brian took it ,I think to wash out his paint brushes.
I know Pauline reads the blog and send my regards to her and Brian,maybe if he is up to it she could remind him of the whiskey incident.
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We have narrowed it down. Leeds won the div 1 title in 89/90 season at Bournemouth. Fuad was still in England then, and he had that tee shirt. In fact he wore that t shirt when I took him to the station first time to fly to the USA.
I still can't remember the day with Emma there. And I can't believe Mam can remember what t-shirt I wore when going to the airport.
I thought all along it was Mike, until doubters caused me to doubt...it looks a lot like a photo Lynda Wheeler has of him...Mike stayed with the Wheelers when he first came to the states.
How dare you call our Emma ,Emma? fuad,and it was Muneer,I was there.
Graham
Sonia, Mike thought it was astounding that you remembered what t-shirt he wore to fly to the US...I told him it would have been a monumental day for you.
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