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I've got a paint tin opener just like that.

I thought she hosted it later on as well and looked it up. She did it seems. She beat Lenny Henry and Victoria Wood when she was a contestant. The same thing I read said she only did her first audition because she had no money to pay her mother's £19 funeral bill.

I remember Marti Caine, she was a singing comedian. She died quite young I recall.

Yeah, not keen on them, saw them in a pub called the Royal Standard, my late mate/boss was a big big fan and dragged me along. Some sweaty sock threatened me with the 'heed' just because I trod on his foot on my way to and from the toilet. Honestly, if you spend your life in a skirt dragging your bollocks through the gorse and brambles, a sore toe should be the least of your worries. I knew I'd remember some more. Saw the Nolans at Butlins once, they were bloody funny. It was them or Roger de Courcy and Nookey bear, I think I made the right decision.

Well the Bay City Rollers were very good. This was about 12 years ago, so probably not all originals. At the same event was Showaddywaddy and the long haired singer seemed to be singing slower than the band were playing. He's now their manager I believe, the other singer died a few years ago.

My impact driver I reckon. Bought it to use on the cross head screws on the casing of my XS250, so must have been around 1983. The XS250 was useless and dumped after a few months, the impact driver was last used this year to undo two bastards bolts that I couldn't shift any other way.

Wishbone Ash (against my will) Bon Jovi (against my will twice) Bryan Adams ZZ Top AC/DC Iron Maiden Judas Priest Dio Girlschool Fleetwood Mac Saxon Bay City Rollers Status Quo Showaddywady Scorpions The Damned Doctor Feelgood Engine Susie Quatro David Essex Heart I'm sure there are a few I've forgotten. ZZ Top were the biggest disappointment. Fleetwood Mac and Heart were probably joint best performers. Status Quo made me laugh when they announced they had an album out called the Fourth Chord!

The size should be written on the chain side plates if you're lucky. You want the size and the number of links.

More Dualers

Already got mine.

Nice!

I was late back from lunch at work because I'd been skiving and thought I would be in trouble. But I walked in to find a portable tv had been set up and everyone was gathered around it and all telling me that a plane had hit a building in America. I think I was there when the second one hit, not sure.

I did see it live once, in Plymouth. I had to have therapy for years afterwards. Very steep bank of seats so the row behind was at crotch level to my eyes and I made the mistake of turning round when I heard a loud noise. What some blokes will try to pack into unsuitable underwear is unbelievable.

Getting a phone call mid week whilst on a day's leave to be told that my work colleague had hung himself the afternoon before just after he left work. A few hours later having trouble trying to decide if I had really taken that phone call or was remembering one of those realistic dreams I sometimes have but wondering how you can call people and ask that question.

I have learnt a new word "patootie". Now, how to slip it casually into a conversation?

You can leave it on the bike, the ferry has plenty of life jackets available.

I am sure that some bike tail lights double as reflectors, but I might have dreamt that. Worth a try with a torch in the dark though eh. I had a similar circular doodah stuck onto my DR350 number plate many years ago whilst it was being MOTd. The bloke was just finishing up and he reached over to a box, grabbed one and just stuck it on. I asked and he said my bike needed a reflector and that's what they did when the bike didn't have one rather than fail it.

I don't think would even know how to do that, never had to bother before, but you're right, life's too short to do anything else, thank you for a good idea.

You know all this constant sniping back and forth is getting a bit wearing now, I've mostly been reading around it, but if anything it's getting worse. Why don't the main contenders just pm each other so the rest of us don't have to read it?

Once his balls dropped he sat higher on the seat.

I spoke to the mechanics in one of the SL articles today to find out what days they were closed so we can do stuff to their cross over. The place opened up at the end of the war as a workshop and in the fifties and sixties they were working on Police cars and the local villains get away cars at the same time. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/17/at-the-mansell-st-garage/

I've heard about people doing that quite often. It's usually people not in their usual sleeping place though, in a hotel or staying with other people. My mate Charlie woke up in a tent at a rally and proceeded to piss in a pair of Ugg boots the girl he had brought had placed there. She was not best pleased (her only footwear that weekend) and they were placed on his wing mirrors for a few hours to dry out and I nearly had a coronary next day trying not to laugh when she proudly showed me photos looking down from the ski lift on the Isle of Wight and a stained pair of ugg boots were in shot.

"I only had a hundred quid but I made it to Kashmir by hitch-hiking, where my sister sent me another thirty quid to get home. It cost me six quid to get from Istanbul to London and I sold my blood to do it. When I got back, it all fell into place." https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/19/rodney-holt-designer-set-builder-x/

This was a band who busked all over London, first one of their videos, good car driving song, singing the chorus as loud as you can when I'm in the mood. Then them busking and Arnold the passing dancer.