Hey, if that's what we're wearing down here right now, that just means you lot up North will be wearing it in about one and a half years from now....
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, Hornsea to be precise, I was on a long secondment after upsetting someone important in my London office...
Thank God for the wonderful trawlermen's wives of Hull is all I can say!
Cheers, Steve
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Nah! We don't need clothes parcels. Anyroad th'shine on me clogs 'ud mek pearly buttons look dull.
Ah, Hornsea. Origin of the phrase "The Last Resort".
I'm assuming there is a typo in there, and you really mean Hornsey. I cant imagine any self-respecting Londoner going as far as Hornsea and surviving ;-)
That's what I thought when the memo landed on my desk...
I was OK when I arrived at Kings X and got on the train... Hmmm, I thought, restaurant service to Hornsey, can't be bad..
Next thing I knew, we were at Doncaster, and I checked my A-Z of London, and there was *no such place* in the whole of London. That's when the panic set in..
We rattled past Goole.. a name to conjure with.. past the encamped loonie who furiously gesticulated at all the trains.. and eventually reached Hull, which I thought was the bottom of a boat.
I surveyed the terrifying alien landscape.. decided to phone the office and explain that there had been a terrible mistake... couldn't find a phone box anywhere (no-one had told me the phone boxes were green (?) in Hull!)... and just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I found myself on a bus, for Gawd's sake, doing the two-hour trip from Hull to Hornsea via Goathland...
I have to stop now, my blood is running cold just thinking about over 30 years later!
Cheers, Steve
"Steve W" wrote
Cream actually, but I know you southerners have trouble with colours, unless they're shiny and attached to pearly outfits.
Now you're really taking the urine - 'ull to 'ornsea via Goathland? Gerraway wi' yer.
John.
Cream or green, but not *red*. We have absolutely no problems with colours. Buses are red, trains are red (unless they go to the seaside, in which case they are green), pillar boxes are red, phone boxes are red, fire engines are red. Red. And more red. Now, that's what we call a colour.
Silly me, of course it wasn't Goathland, it was Sproatley. Or was it Swine? The horror, the horror.....
Cheers, Steve
"Steve W" wrote
It was probably both - pig of a journey really. ;-)
John.
No problem with colours?! Any colour as long as it's red!!! ;o)
Cheers, John.
Absolutely spot on, squire! McDonalds is red, Tramlink is red... and then there was the greatest beer in the whole of human history, yup, Watney's Red, fresh from the Mortlake Megakeggery.
Cheers, Steve
"Steve W" wrote
Watney's Red ? That wasn't a beer it was a fizzy keg thing featured in TV adverts cause it wouldn't sell otherwise.
John.
Err, I rather think I knew that, John!
Its sole virtue was that it travelled well, that is to say it tasted just as vile at the other end of a delivery as when it left the Megakeggery chemical factory in Mortlake.
Cheers, Steve
Must of been where Budweiser got their recipe from then Rob
American or Czech?
I love the American fizzy pop called Bud, not too keen on the Czech original, too close to proper beer for my liking.
Eddie.
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