[PETER GUNN]

Coffee use frsh beans grind them yourself and great black to get you under way, later the same but add cream, and later still add a wee dram to the mix in the eveng, alawys have 2 and you get that nice warm feeling but don't spoil it with to much coffee best a third coffee and 2 thirds whisky sleep like a dream.

 

[PETER GUNN]

As we all might have noticed it,s been a bit political out there , what with everything crashing here there and everywhere , that idiot Truss , are we yes, well no were not , yes we might, posibly at a later date, i'm not for turning and so on and so on.
And i have noticed they all walk on to music rousing music mostly, and i was wondering about suitable tunes for them, so a couple of mine.
1, We have to get out of this place.
2. Tip toe through the tulips.
3 Can't get no Satisfaction.
4 Digging this hole.

Carry on chaps see what you think is appropriate.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Being retired for some time now i realised a few years back all that c---p politicians put about , like enjoying your retirement , plenty of leisure time to do what ever you wanted , the odd cruise , holiday skiing in the alps was just that c---p.
In reality my leisure time is taken up by trying to get through to the doctors surgery, trying to sort out my B electric bill they keep F'n up, trying to find out from the council who deals with this that or the other only to be told they are at a meeting, on holiday , or will phone you back but they never do.
Thanks to the last 12 years of tory mismanagment money is tight ( a common theme these days ) prices have gone through the roof for food , my beloved single malt no longer can i afford , all my bill's have or are skyrocking , and the missus has just bought us a large quilt to put over us as the winter approaches as we cut back on expenses or try to pay the new prices just to keep warm.
At least we have the telly , the missus is worried tv license is due soon and i said B to it we won't pay it, she worries about things like that like most women would do i guess, keeps saying were the ones that get caught and land in prison, my reply to that was good at least we will be fed, kept warm and watch the B telly without a license.

 

[PETER GUNN]

My experiance with cashless goes like this , me paying for goods, but me can't the machine is not working, me with goods in my hand and mentioned i have cash, answer was sorry sir we don't take cash, me walking out fuming leaving goods on the table .
Me going into small corner shop picking up goods going to the check out , me saying to nice assistant do you take cash as i have cash, she of course sir we always take cash , it is after all legal tender.
Work out which shop i will use in future, and i always carry cash not a lot of it these days smile .

 

[PETER GUNN]

Once again i heard sorry from a politician which is becoming a regular thing, they can F everything up and just say sorry, you can fire someone for doing what you asked them to do , then praise them up and say sorry, sorry your energy bills are going up, sorry your mortage is going up, sorry your food is going up, but there are others worse of than you the poor bankers can't make ends meet without a bonus to their already inflated wages sorry.
They are sorry you can't get a doctors appointment, sorry your operations cancelled until 2023, sorry some people will freeze this winter, sorry some will die of hunger, sorry there are kids in poverty, and so it goes on.
Well i'm sorry really sorry so sorry i have forgotten what i'm sorry about as it,s used so often it,s just a cheap word,as it no longer means a thing, sorry.

 

[PETER GUNN]

I used to do a milk round for the UD also at the same time there was the Express and the CO-OP trundling around and quite often we would have a little race down Bourne Drive mind you in the Morrison electric the brakes were not that great so i was braking half way down from the dizzly heights of it seemed 20mph .
But like everything else it,s all but gone and a lot of what Beardy says is spot on, and try getting the money in on a Saturday in the end it was nigh impossible.
In the winter we had to double charge the van's otherwise you would not get back to the depot what with having the so called lights on , many a time i was sort of jumping up and down on the seat in the freezing cold ( no heaters in those days ) pearing through the windscreen with the single wiper just about sweeping the screen with hardly a light to see my way, yep the good ole days chuckle.

 

[PETER GUNN]

When I was a boy we had those three in town. The Co-oP was the biggest but I always wondered how much batter power the floats wasted getting out of the depot the building was about a road's width behind the footpath but was also about one and half stories below road level with a step ramp at each end. They had a rear entrance that was just about level but it was always kept locked. if we needed more milk I would be sent to the depot to get a bottle and as an eight or nine year only I was kn****ed climbing out of the depot.

We all had a charging point with our number on it so when you got back to the depot you put the van on charge as well as unloading what you had left and of course you had crates full of empty bottles you had to get of the van and stack, cashing in as well , and as you eventually got away normally a hour or so after you got back which incidentally was normally outside your 48 hour week , you could hear the hum of all the van's being charged .
Next morning very early you had to get your crates of full milk bottles from the coolers boy that was cold , red, gold and silver top, cream and by the time i left bottles of orange as well load your van up in the order it came of, approx 2 hours later we all set of up the back perimiter road trying to be amongst the first 10 at least to get out otherwise you spent another 45 minutes trying to leave the depot.
It was hard graft but most things were in those days so it was pretty normal .
It took me approx an hour to get to my first drop, those of you old enough must remember sitting behind a fully laden milk van think at about 10mph crawling up the main road, we had no doors so you could jump in and out of the cab into the icy wind and snow , yep we even worked in blizzards , can you imagin that now.
But there were some better things , some of the sights you would see delivering milk especially when collecting the money, and there was something else a lot differant then people were kinder, offer you a cuppa , bit of toast if you could get your gloves of your frozen hands and can still remember wrapping my hands round a piping hot cuppa. .

 

[PETER GUNN]

Nostalgia time every pub many moons ago had a fish van, stall where you could buy shellfish and a pair of real kippers in the car park, we had a mobile greengrocer when i was a kid , and Rossi's ice cream van , the lemonade lorry flogging tizer and numourous other coloured drinks, rag and bone man, the paraffin van Esso blue i think he was, mobile fish and chip van Thursday and Saturday, the baker fresh bread 6 donuts in a bag , eccles cakes and cheese cakes amongst other delicious things, yep many years ago we had deliveries to the door .
Some things still the same Tesco have just delivered the weeks groceries next door but i really miss them fresh real kippers.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Spotted at my local supermarket last weekend. The only one left that didn't rust away? View attachment 323529 View attachment 323530 View attachment 323531

Ah Trisha you have just reminded me of the Viva Estate we had one we used to take our gear around in the early days when we gigged .
Late one Sat night after a gig at the Wykham Hall in Romford we had finished for the night and our encore number was Bo's Road Runner I'm a road runner honey not that night it wasn't as the driver got in and half the seat runner fell through the floor.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Wry smile this morning as usual on the news the media were camped outside no 10 and as we were watching , Larry the cat wandered by and went up to the door and door opened and in he went.
The missus looking on said Larry should be PM as he has spent more time at no 10 than the last 4 prime ministers.

 

[PETER GUNN]

The worst thing is when the mechanic comes out from under the car with that look on his face, raised eyebrows and a slight shake of the head followed by a long inhalation of breath .

 

[PETER GUNN]

Ah remember the time with fondness on the A 127 coming into Southend , i was doing 70 aware that there was a speed restriction sign just at the bottom of the slope by a slight kink , with a a----e hole climbing all over me so i waited until i was halfway on that part of the road before pulling over and he flew by me in his BMW mouthing nice comments at me chuckle and shot past the 30 sign doing well over 70 , but he obviously did not know that just on that curve were 3 speed cameras and on this particular day a police car in the layby .
Did not stop along the road where the police had pulled him over smile nor did i mouth anything to him , but the missus called me evil as i was beaming as we drove by just under 30.

there is a higher being somewhere . .

 

[PETER GUNN]

I don't get it you go to a spot to protest usually by some form of transport, you drink , eat consume something delivered by some form of transport , go home turn on the light supplied by electric normally, see yourself protesting on the telly usually supplied by a foreign company and air miles, put the heating on have a bath or shower all supplied mostly by some sort of fuel at the original point to do that for you , then complain , i don't get it.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Not a political animal but my mum had a saying past their sell by date , something i have thought for some time now , not sure how long this PM will last had 5 in 12 years and they have got decidly worse, mind you trying to head that rabble must be a time consuming job on it,s own.
Think we the people especially us old uns have heard promises of honey tomorrow if we only buckle up our belts now most of our lives , and it has come down to we don't beleive a thing you say anymore , most of us try to run our lives on common sense , and i am sick and tired of being told c----p which i know it is as i've heard it so often.
And if i hear another politician earning over 100k a year with all the bits and pieces tell us he understands where people are coming from when they have practally s---d all i am liable to loose it.
We have neighbours around here who do not know where the money is coming from just to live and pay their way , Mary along the road is on her own no company pension spent her life bringing up the kids who have now departed for differant places , and some of us get her shopping in for her as she can't get out very easily , she tends to buy the same things each week always gives you her shopping list and £25, how can any of us tell her the £25 don't cut it any more, so we pay the extra and stick in a little treat as well.
She is so greatful we get the shopping and the little treat usually something chocolate, normally you stay for a little chat just to brighten her day, and always leave with a lump in my throat and so glad i'm not in that position still got the missus as company.
I don't know like others on here if the other lot would be any better, but until we see we can't judge what sort of government they would make, and how do you get us out of the brown stuff this lot has dropped us in i have some ideas but i'm not in power and never will be.

 

[PETER GUNN]

I am so glad the xmas period is over we both had the hump fed up with the constant repeats on the box and countless appeals for a tenner here , 3 pounds there 29 pounds and 7 pence somewhere else,must be at leas 50 appeals , they all want my money, or cremate me for variious prices , put me in a home, send me to Quatar for holidays.
All i wanted to do was relax with the better half make the most of xmas together , at our age don't know if 's our last decided to put some of my cd's on the player, and we had a power cut, so there we sat wrapped up in blankets bobble hat scarf and gloves, looking at the blacked out xmas tree and chatted about the past eating a cheese sarnie , happy new year.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Shock horror so bored with tv was i the other night i gave the remote control a right working out and hidden down amongst the free views a chanel popped up showing The Benny Hill show , and i apologise in advance for actually watching it , and very very sorry i was laughing , i know i have no right to be amused with anything in this PC world we now live in
, but it got worse and i'm sorry Till Death us do part or to the old one's amongst us Alf Garnett was on another chanell .
I know i should be put in the stocks, flogged publically in Oxford Street at rush hour , be drummed out of Slotforum, cast away on a desert island but i must amit i tittered, and still think how sexy Una Stubbs was all those years ago , sorry i,m really sorry for letting the side down, but at least i cheered myself up and had a laugh, before i'm hung drawn and quartered

 

[PETER GUNN]

Only REAL men can wear pink.

Ah that's what it is wondered when my y fronts went from white to pink after missus put them in wash with my red t shirt , i must be a REAL man then chuckle.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Last time i got a bonk from the wife was when i came home a bit worse for wear , still not sure what she hit me with.

 

[PETER GUNN]

Ah Harry what a plonker Rodney, my dad served in the 2nd world war in the desert and in the d day landings and he never said anything about any of it except to say he lost good mates, perhaps H should really keep g---b shut and pen in pocket.