That’s nowt, we could only get a bath when we were kids when it rained really heavily and the mud hole the dog had dug filled up with water and we’d dive in there….all 2 inches of it and used broken bits of old breeze block for soap with cheap bleach.
You’ve never had it so good. Did me no harm.

Only you Snowy

These electric bikes….down Seaton and bump into someone I worked with back in the day….I’m having a breather on the bench with the hounds and he whizzes silently past me…turns around to come back and chat…..
As you do, in jest, I asked him where he nicked the electric bike from,..forgetting he takes these things literally …anyway, tells me it’s to keep fit….so after a life of smoking, drinking etc etc he has decided to get fit at 69…..and he’s splashed out on all the bike gear too, which looks out of place on a man with a man who in profile looks like a toffee apple with two sticks….when I pointed out to get fit on a bike you need to pedal it, not whizz about freewheeling on battery power…..he huffs it off..and I’m the bad guy.

that reminds me of local sports teams especially football where they go training a couple of nights and then off to the pub for a few pints and something to eat for some. be better off staying at home and sitting in the chair and just turn up for the match.

I don't like fuel bills being increased for yet another "money grab " by a pack of gangsters. I see deaths galore amongst pensioners if we have a bad winter. I know of one old lady near us who only buys packet soups bread tea bags n milk. How did we end up in such a terrible mess.
One of her relations told us she used to enjoy fish chips n mushy peas her once a week treat but can no longer afford to. She is very old ( around late 80s / 90s ) and now stays indoors full time. Strange thing is she has got it in her head that everyone is very poor because of fuel & food rises and for that reason refuses any financial help or food.
We have a old lady in our street 94 yrs who has no relatives left so a group of us take care of her and she is tough as old boots and just shrugs her shoulders when told bad news. She said trust me nothing is as bad as the War was.

Best comment I heard was last night when on a panel show a guest was asked why Labour kept quiet about scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance and gobsmacked me by saying Starmer couldn’t, as he was taking part in the election and couldn’t reveal it because it could cost him the election…..but obviously they must have planned this as they didn’t wake up after the election and had a sudden ‘brainwave’ to scrap the WFA.
A lot of Labour supporters on the media are pushing the idea that most pensioners are well off, this from champagne socialist personalities who’ve never done a real days work in their pointless lives.

many pensioners are well off like the saga brigade. lots also who own their own house could also make things better for themselves by obtaining cash from their property but feel that its going to decrease what they leave to children and grandchildren who in many cases are mentally spending it before it arrives. i,d like to bet now if many could here what these reletives are saying behind their backs they,d quickly change their lifestyle to eat better and keep warm.

Many pensioners are well off, but a lot are asset rich (house) but still careful with the cash if they haven’t took out a pension scheme …..they’re not paying a mortgage anymore, but those renting will be getting their rent paid anyway on just the basic state pension.

why do they not take advantage of equity release schemes to give themselves extra cash though. it riles me when i hear em say it could affect the money they eventually pass on especially if they got sod all left to them. just sold one of my cars last week so my lads inheritance as just gone down to one citroen xsara estate so he,ll be able to renue his stockport season ticket again if i croak this season.

You have been watching too many adverts about equality release schemes on afternoon tv, total rip off. I wanted to transfer the ownership of my flat to my daughter and continue living in it, nope she would have to charge me the going rental rate to avoid some form of tax.

not a rip off but certainly favours those selling it in a big way. the latter is why they want to see the end of cash as they would not really be able to prove you have actually paid her for the rent.

I don't like it when push bikes go through traffic lights or worse those facking motor bikes. None have insurance tax or m.o.t's but almost all including the older push bike riders simply ignore the lights. The lights are only for the daft twats who pay for insurance tax and m.o.t's. Another sign of everything is wrong in this World.

Noticed around the town a number of individuals riding round on electric or old motor bikes with masks, no helmets but the police do nothing…been going on for a while now and of there’s collision guess who’ll get the blame.

This is a accident waiting to happen. When it does the legal driver will be in the spot light and the reckless motor bike gang will be marters. Its amazing that everytime one of these total morons get killed the family and friends say what a lovely kind hearted caring individual he was. Would do anything for anybody was not a bad person bla bla bla.

Aye, the bigger the scally, the bigger the send off.

then the florists shop gets deposited around the spot where it happened. there is a big difference in saying nothing ill of the dead to making out everyone who does die has been a real hero.

that post made me think of another of my annoyances that seems to be happening more and more and got me into a bit of shit once. people and pets do not die now. they pass or are lost plus other discriptions of being dead. mentioned this before i,m sure of walking the dogs and seeing a bloke who had only one instead of two with him. asking where his other way he said he,d lost him. as a fool i said wher was the last time you saw him and i,ll help you look. he thought i was taking the piss and ended in an argument that could have been avoided by just saying his dog was dead.

At one stage in the 80’s I got nominated by the wife to take several dogs for people to be put down. I was uncomfortable, but detached.
When the time came for me to put mine down I was absolutely gutted.
Yet I have attended loads of funerals etc, and never been moved once, never a child admittedly, which is different, but different people have different coping mechanisms.

bit like me and my lad and her in the kitchen. we cannot even watch films where you know animals and especially dogs get killed in them even when you know nothing has happened to them in real life.

Love it Accy

Just been to help me daughter buy a new Renault Clio. And despite the fact I told the salesman that " I am very experienced in new vehicle trade " he still tried to give her a crap deal. So I told him to bring his boss over which he did. I told his boss please cut the bullshit factor and give me the very very best avaliable deal on this car. Then I give him a little friendly advice, make dam sure its your very best deal because you have one last chance before I walk. I had done all my homework and knew exactly what figures I wanted, to be fair he done well and deal was sealed.

North Tees Hospital.

Become a footballers agent.
You make it sound oh so easy.

If you do your homework Kev and have a vast experience in buying new vehicles it is so easy. As for being a football agent I would work out what the player was worth then offer him that, if he wanted more I would say bye bye next please.

Picking up dog logs.............i want to throw up!

Oddly enough speaking of dog shit…one mine comes out black and one browny yellowish…..and solid.
I always have poo bags in my pocket, embarassing when you pull em out of your pocket by mistake
Oddly enough I only had Ruby out down Seaton this morning (Rat-boy was working) and as I reached the promenade and looked over the top, down on the beach were five stiffs laid cold on the beach and two chubs sat on stools near them…then bizarrely one stood up with a small bell and stood next to each one and tinkled the bell each time…..at this point I wondered what the hell was going on….then, one of the stiffs moved….is the world going MAD!

That's completely lost me Snowy

Well the first paragraph was on dog shit obviously…..but the second was on a group of geriatric middle class hippies on the beach …don’t know if they’d overdosed on the old Biffo gas but the scene was quite bizarre.
You see some loony sights down there first thing

Went down the Headland this morning, you know it’s bad when the waves are swamping the Heugh breakwater at low tide you’ve more waterproofs than A lifeboat crew and when the dogs pee it goes side ways to confuse them…so I was baffled to see in the wind and lashing rain see a one armed bloke in a blue tartan shirt riding a bike with a cardboard tube jammed under his only bike driving arm.
Rubbed my eyes but he was still there wobbling along in wind and spray .
Surreal
Only on the Headland.

Was he a bandit

I wanted to know what was in the tube

Maybe it was a lance.

Some of those "swimmers" are in danger of being harpooned.

Must have been a fracking big boil if it was……

Had a pleasant experience this morning, saw a lad riding his bike ‘hands free’ while looking down at his phone who rode effortlessly into back of a parked van…some things really warm your cockles.

What a coincidence! I seen a teenager on a bike yesterday doing the same thing. A car passed him and indicated to park, he rode straight into it and buckled his wheel and started to blame the driver until he got out and looked down at him.

Down York Road the other tea time four of the ski mask raggy lads on their electric bikes all over the place swerving round cars yet they need no licence, no insurance, crash helmets, no test and all doing 40+mph.

My mate said two of those parasites crashed on a Scooter in west view after hitting a car. The bike snapped in half, both got injured. They got up and limped away leaving a woman with a huge dent in the rear quarter. Police called ( to everyone's amazement ) they turned up and organised a recovery truck. The woman asked what happens about the damages to her car the copper laughed and said you can either claim off your insurance or just keep using the car it's not illegal. The car was 3 years old, surely she could claim off the council or Police for allowing the shit to happen. What would happen if we all said fook it I will do the same? I bet my life they would do something then.

Pity they can’t put a couple of cops on scramblers and sort the problem out….it’s only gonna get worse.

Well interesting indeedie because my mate told the police one of the names and the street he lived in. He also told them both had been injures. But apparently after the recovery took place the police van pulled away in the opposite direction. Allegedly.

they had one in bradford but they crashed it.

The friggin A1 at Doncaster really warms my urine, bridge repairs my ar£e.
Over about half the time it’s taken to “repair” the bridge I’ve seen the construction of the new A14, 6 lane carriageway, 3 east, 3 west, with numerous bridges over, from the A1 to Bar hill.
Criminal how long it’s taking and the traffic delays for small bridge repairs, some fooker needs firing.

just another on the long list that pisses people off. Roadworks with a speed limit on them where there is sigbs for protecting the workforce when there is nobody there working. traffic lights where there is a period given for pedestrians to cross when they do not exist and general speed limits with cameras that are only there really for certain parts of the day and not a full 24 hours. feel drivers would be much more understanding and willing to conform if all this nonsence wasn,t around.

Rotating Toasters in hotels, the bread comes out warm first time around and occasionally burnt the second time round.

Why do hotels even the posh ones have cheap toilet tissue the type if you don’t double up your fingers go straight through it ?

Apologies if I've missed this one already but, tracksuit bottoms. Why, why, why are they only 3/4 length now?! Ridiculous.