General Chat

Driving to town with my friend in passenger seat we both pulled the sun visor down then she said "the sun is in the wrong place isn't it". No it should be in the sky.

Some still say "dust cart" but me thinks it more than just dust being carted about these days.

Street lamps, when they are street lights.

Dustbin van -

a) its a lorry
b) the bins don't go in it, the rubbish does
c) what ZZzzz said about dust.

If the sun was in the wrong place, where you driving in the wrong direction? ;-)

There is that Irish song with a line which says

"Where the strawberry beds run down to the Liffy."

Those berries are not made of straw at all and they grow out of the ground, they don't lie in beds and, anyway, when did you last see a bed running?

The runner beans just hang around waiting to be picked and I've never heard a grapevine say anything :-0

Sharron

Liffy...........there is/was a section of railway track, known as the Liffy incline.

years ago I had some stereo setup records featuring a particular engne puffing its way up the Liffy incline...........

steam roller, they are diesel these days, what?


I remember a horsedrawn dust cart, when it was full a lorry would come along drop off(on slide rails) an empty one and the full one(without the 'Orse) would be winched up onto the lorry, to go to the dump........

West Sussex Highways were running Ruth, a steam roller, around Midhurst into the eighties.

If I delivered to the Midhurst Council depot, they would always be sure to let me know where she would be working so that I could go and see her.

There was a pub in that area that would serve stew, made of mutton I think, and it was called shackle.

I would surmise that this was the origin of ramshackle. A ram would be older than most sheep, maybe because he enjoyed his working life and wanted to prolong it, and only fit for stewing with a lot of other bits and pieces.

Have you ever gone away on a sun holiday and packed ‘the makings of a fry’ in your suitcase?

And do you still go out to buy your messages and then come home to put them in the press?