benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Not even attempted decorating since living in Sherwood late 60s...........was going out with a 'Hippie girl'' from Wolverhamton who persuaded me to paint the whole house Orange... Then she left me......... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 We can expect to see you again about November then Brew. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 7 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: Then she left me......... Aaaah benj. If you know where she lives, we will pop round and have a word with her. How Could She!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 She worked in a 'Sauna'' near Molyneux ? sp) Wolves football ground...used to pick her up on a friday night and bring her back to Nottingham....did it while i was working out of an office in Moxley....then one friday she wasnt there...went in and ask the other girls,,who said they hadnt seen her all week....never saw her again.......got my Uncle John to re decorate for me......couldnt live with an Orange house without her.......wish i could remember her name......lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Brass cheek! Treating our Ben like that. Carni and I will go round and pour a tin of bright orange Dulux gloss over her head. Teach her to upset our Ben! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Its ok carnie and Jill,,it was only one summer of love,,she helped me painting in the day,, and we hit the town at night, for about 3 weeks,, Used to take her to the Palais and the 99 club,,she said she loved nottingham,, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 807 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Thats ben the Dedicated Follower Of Fashion. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 It will make or Break me,,,but ive got to buy the best''' 'Cos i'm a dedicated follower of Fashion''' ''Oh yes he is'' CARNIE ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 3 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: couldnt live with an Orange house without her.......wish i could remember her name......lol Jaffa? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Ben, did you say she worked in a sauna? Are you sure it wasn’t a tanning studio seeing as she liked orange so much lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Coulda been Clementine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Yes Margie.....thats where i met her......Celia moved in with me and the Bathroom was still Orange.....she said she hated the colour.........never did tell her.......lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 1 hour ago, benjamin1945 said: 'Cos i'm a dedicated follower of Fashion''' He thinks he is a flower to be looked at. Was her name Oranjeana? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 After my bit of excitement yesterday I decided to phone the police. The young lass in Boots seemed so pee’d off that nothing ever got done and I thought that if the police knew I’d been threatened they might take it more seriously. Had a follow up phone call from the police today. The “interview” was definitely skewed towards why I had pushed this guy. Was it in self defence? Did I feel threatened? Why did I push him a second time? By the time she’d finished I definitely felt that I was defending MY actions. Never again! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,303 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Tail wagging the dog. Lunatics running the asylum. This world has gone mad! My mother used to say, those who stole should have their fingers chopped off! Saudi Arabian school of justice, my mother, but honest as the day is long. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 2 hours ago, AfferGorritt said: After my bit of excitement yesterday I decided to phone the police. The young lass in Boots seemed so pee’d off that nothing ever got done and I thought that if the police knew I’d been threatened they might take it more seriously. Had a follow up phone call from the police today. The “interview” was definitely skewed towards why I had pushed this guy. Was it in self defence? Did I feel threatened? Why did I push him a second time? By the time she’d finished I definitely felt that I was defending MY actions. Never again! Way back in the 1970s, when I lived in Skelmersdale, I was walking home from the pub on a Friday night. I was about 25. My walk involved a straight road towards a roundabout with a high bank beyond it.. after which I would turn left at the side of the bank, to my house. As I proceeded in an orderly fashion towards the bank, I heard repeated whistling noises over my head. As I got close to the banking I realised that someone was lying on the top of the bank shooting an air pistol in my direction. I saw two heads bobbing up and down. As I drew level with the banking, I hurled some choice abuse, and in return I heard what sounded like giggling from a couple of teenage boys. I picked up a piece of wood and threw it in their direction, then went into my house and called the police. About 15 minutes later, a Police Officer knocked at my door. He claimed to have 'investigated' the incident. He informed me it was two teenage boys, engaged in 'target practice' .shooting at a tin can.. and that I had 'frightened them', by shouting at them and throwing things at them. I pointed out that it was midnight and pitch dark....hardly an ideal time or place for lying on wet grass engaged in 'target practice'. Also, seeing which way this was going, I denied throwing any object but admitted to waving my arms at them in anger. I further pointed out that it was at the very least stupid and dangerous to discharge a weapon when any shot which did not hit the target tin can was bound to continue along the roadway, endangering the public. I finally pointed out that it was my understanding that it was illegal to discharge a weapon within 50 yards of a highway. The Police Officer left and I heard no more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 1 hour ago, DJ360 said: The Police Officer left and I heard no more. I would think so, not enough hours in the day or ink in his pen for all that waffle Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 Whatever 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 Just watched a 1957 film with a young Michael Crawford, called "Soapbox Derby". They must have broken every H & S rule in the book. Kids riding on backs of lorries, a soapbox cart being towed at the back of a car with string, playing at the side of the Thames on railway sidings. Even a bloke clouting kids that weren't his own. Good film to watch though. I would be about the same age and we were just as bad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 The Health and Safety at Work Act was derived from a report by Lord Robens on the Flixborough disaster in 1974. This was an explosion at a chemical works in north Lincs. I remember flying over there to view the wreckage which was unbelievable. I think the Act came out in around 1977 by the then Labour government. I remember being the one to implement the new rules at my company. We still complain about it but it is acted on with relish by petty officialdom! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 I remember Flixborough, delivered to their stores 2 days before the accident. Another stroke of fate for us was sailing on the "Herald of Free Enterprise" a couple days before her disaster . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,404 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 I did wonder at the time if I was partly responsible for the Flixborough explosion. In 1973 we transported a huge stainless streel tank from a factory in Croydon to the chemical plant. It was so big it would not go under the motorway or A1 bridges and needed a police escort. In Bedford, under instructions, we contravened a one way but in doing so took down a shop blind and one of the many outlet pipes hit a wall. At the time of the explosion I wondered if we damaged the pipework and a leak caused the bang. Later, looking at the pictures, the tank was one of the few still standing so had nothing to do with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 I had a boat called ‘Enterprise’ around time of the ‘Herald’ disaster. I’d just sold it and was sailing it downstream from Fardon Harbour to the purchaser at Newark Marina. It was the first trip of the season and I’d previously turned off the fuel tap when I’d winterised it. We got a few hundred yards downstream when the diesel engine cut out and we were drifting towards Kelham weir. Fortunately, on board, as well as my young son, was my friend Derrick, who at that time was chief engineer at Nottingham City Transport. He quickly grabbed a spanner and bled the diesel whilst I cranked the engine which at last spluttered into life. Within a hundred yards of the weir we were motoring again. One of my many near disasters! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trogg 2,010 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 The H&S Act came out in 1974 as Phil wrote due to that report. Before that there was numerous Acts for specific trades , such as Mines and Quarries ,Office and shops etc but they were all specific in what they covered and many places had no legislation whatsoever. For example in the Fire Service you could go inspect a premise and fire precautions could be insisted on, yet you could go into a 4 storied residential house where the only entrance-exit was the front door and everywhere including the stairs was piled high with Flammable fabrics waiting to be made up into garments, yet as all the personnel working there were all family members you could only advise them. Leaving them with without a fire extinguisher or means of escape in the event of a fire. Also with the changing nature of industry a lot of what we would consider factories were no longer covered because of the narrow definition of what a factory was. As phil said once this Legislation came in there was an immediate surplus in experts in this field and would set up businesses as Consultants charging high fees and other bodies using it to further their own ends. This has happened numerous times when different Legislation was enacted and I believe they must sit and think up the smallest item to blow it up to a major problem , to increase the charges and their own importance. In most Acts you find the phrase " where reasonably practical" this I think has been forgotten. There now seems to be a lack of common sense in all areas of society or is it that society has changed and everybody must have all there thinking done for them and looked after like small children. Eg if you buy a bag of nuts it must be labelled "may contain nut" to protect people with nut allergies. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 18 hours ago, AfferGorritt said: The “interview” was definitely skewed towards why I had pushed this guy. Was it in self defence? Did I feel threatened? Why did I push him a second time? By the time she’d finished I definitely felt that I was defending MY actions. Never again! What happened to you AG is the reason i wouldn't get involved......the law is a minefield...to stop anyone for theft in a store you must observe all the following... 1/ Person approach the product.. 2/ select the item.. 3/ conceal it... 4/ Exit the store,,,making no attempt to pay... Only then.. and never having lost sight of suspect...should you Approach and accuse....... Not having witnessed all the above....leaves you open to be accused of a wrongful detainment...of which if proved could cost you a lot of money...... Also the touching and detainment of anyone opens up even more of a legal minefield....... All professional Store Detectives worth their salt will have received thorough training in all these aspects of law...before being let loose on the General public.......So my advice is Don;t get involved............. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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