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From: ginge on 17 May 2010 15:38 On Mon, 17 May 2010 20:20:03 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote: >I'm sure you would, but you are more affluent than your parents were, and today >peer-pressure is one of the biggest influences on kids, associating with kid from >less, er, dicerning, parents. Hold on a moment. It's likely any child of mine will be ginger, so they won't have any freinds to put peer pressure on them anyway. :-)
From: R C Nesbit on 17 May 2010 15:55 Ginge spoke: > >I'm sure you would, but you are more affluent than your parents were, and today > >peer-pressure is one of the biggest influences on kids, associating with kid from > >less, er, dicerning, parents. > > Hold on a moment. It's likely any child of mine will be ginger, so > they won't have any freinds to put peer pressure on them anyway. :-) True, very true - I'll have you know I used to be ginger-ish as a kid! -- Rob_P UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl) FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone) Looks like Rab C Nesbit.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 17 May 2010 16:14 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> saying something like: >and a week in London >staying with Uncle Arthur at his shoe shop in Woolwich. And they say Thomas Cook has all the good destinations.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 17 May 2010 16:17 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember steve auvache <dont_spam(a)thecow.me.uk> saying something like: >A fiver for TPFT on a 125 LD when I was 16. Ditto - NU Rider Policy up to 350cc iirc. Oh, how I dreamed of a 350 as I putted about on a Vespa 150. >Wages as an apprentice was 5 guineas. About the same for me - apprentice lab rat in the steelworks.
From: R C Nesbit on 17 May 2010 16:22
Grimly Curmudgeon spoke: > >and a week in London > >staying with Uncle Arthur at his shoe shop in Woolwich. > > And they say Thomas Cook has all the good destinations. A lasting memory is of me, as a child in short trousers, being sat on a huge black capstan to pose for a photo - but a huge black cast-iron capstan, in a mid-August very sunny day, was akin to a griddle! -- Rob_P UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl) FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone) Looks like Rab C Nesbit. |