BS: uk by-elections

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 05:26 AM

Nice one Keith:-)

Forgot to mention the letters I got on Friday. One was from the bowel cancer screening service saying my test results were fine. The other was from Yorkshire water saying they were going to do some work. So, on the one hand my bowels are ok but, on the other, my water will be discoloured.

Must say it appealed to my sense of the ridiculous:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 07:10 AM

You can can fit your bowels on one hand, Dave?

"All," Jim??

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 07:15 AM

I used to think that wanting to a dentist was a bit mad (several of my mates followed that path), but having as your ultimate career ambition the aspiration to be an analyst of faecal samples...??

Actually, "analyst" seems oddly appropriate. Can't quite put my finger on it...

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Iains
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 09:01 AM

Here you are steve and gnomie. Your alter egos. Carefully pitched to your level. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6zNwBTLSWU

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Raggytash
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 09:09 AM

Cheers Iains, I loved the Flower Pot men when I was a youngster.

Flobblelob

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Iains
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 09:14 AM

Most happy to oblige. Weeeeed!

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 09:26 AM

"All," Jim??"
Don't fall to their level Steve - you're better than that
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 11:56 AM

Hmmm. Not quite sure what I might have said to get me that low, Jim.

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 12:51 PM

Most happy to oblige. Weeeeed!

Why, don't mind if I do.

Jim - We are raising the standard of discussion considerably I'll have you know!

Steve - Thought of you earlier. Went to visit aging parent and sons and heirs in Salford. There was a problem where the M66 joins the M60 with resultant queues so we avoided the Irwell Valley bit of the M60 and came off at the Middleton junction. Hey, there is a song about that. Mike Canavan I think... Anyway, went past Heaton Park and down Sheepfoot Lane and across the 2 Bury Roads - Can never remember which is which. There is a new Italian place with a coffee shop on the corner of one of them. Ever tried it?

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 01:10 PM

Heaton Park's the old road, innit? Haven't been there for a few years, ever since my mum got too infirm to go for a walk. Those motorways are a pain at the moment and will be for years. The "smart motorways" near Brum and Bristol do seem to do the job though, so maybe the roadworks are worth it. On both Thursday and Friday afternoons the week before last there was trouble on the M60 east of Besses and the traffic backed up right round Besses roundabout. Bloody chaos. When I'm going to Radcliffe I always come off at Besses, from where it's less than ten minutes to their house.

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Raggytash
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 01:28 PM

In Middleton Junction there's a brewery so fine
Where they make a potion much sweeter than wine
if you've never tried it then now is the time
for a pint of John Willie Lee's a pint of John Willie Lee's

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 01:59 PM

Ahhh - That was it! Besses o'th' Barn brass band brought it back. Not the John Willie Lees song, Raggy. Definitely a Mike Canavan one with the chorus

"Well some works at the Junction
And some works at the Jam
But they all join up in t'chorus
For the Middleton Junction Band"

It refers to, if I remember rightly, the rivalry between 2 factories (the Junction and the Jam - Not sure what they were) being forgotten when they got together to play with the brass band.

Now we are talking important stuff here. The rivalry between brass bands is legendary - Probably more so than football teams :-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: uk by-elections
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 02:12 PM

My grandad and uncle (his lad) both played in Besses band. Not sure, and there's nobody left to ask, but I think they were E flat bass and euphonium. Their surname was Curliss, quite a rare one with that spelling. I've quaffed many a pint of John Willie Lee's in my time, and a good few jars of Boddies in the days when Boddies WAS Boddies.