Grovelling apologies to Haydn

[rog]

Very very humbly sorry that I totally misunderstood and called you a Welsh Mancunian but you do have a very Welsh name and I thought someone on the forum said you were from Manchester or somewhere like that up North - it's just that it all seems the same from down here as I'm sure you can totally understand. (Obviously Lancashire hot pot would have been a more apt reference, but I just didn't know your anticedents at the time)

However, I must also say that was really no excuse for trying to get me yellow carded - it's like taking a dive in the penalty area and that usually results in a red! Whilst spectators must've seen exactly what happened, it does seem the ref's on day off today so with any luck you won't be sent off.

Anyway no real harm done and of course thanks so very much for all your numerous posts of lengthy expert advice and guidance which is so very much appreciated by a newbie like me and especially from such an experienced oldie like you.

All in total fun (of course) - thanks very much for the advice
Rog

 

[hlb]

Just as long as we can sort out the dick heads and get you're self down here properley equipped in right frame of mind.
No problem. Dont come with no tackle. G&t speciel and winge.

Haydn

 

[tcm]

The Great Ouse: Land of H\'s Father!

What a total fraud! Here's us darn sarf thinking that Haydn was a proper Northerner, when all the time he's a flatland riverboater who lost his way hitchhiking on the M62!

This explain a lot, including the weird driving up to Stourport, and the extensive knowledge of northern stuff . Real Northerners know knothing at all about "t'northerner history" and only the southerners went for that Knotty Ash discomknockerating treacle mines and tickling stick rubbish, which H has evidently learnt very carefully, as though it's true! Which it isn't. Is it?

 

[longjohnsilver]

Dictionary corner

You leave our mate Haydn alone you gurt big bully. You should be encouraging him now he's learning to spell and keeping his cat off his keyboard.

If he carries on like this he'll soon be typing the complete works of Shakespeare without realising it. All that said it is slightly worrying to see that he and Colic come from roughly the same place. Anyway thort you were a migrant from up that way.

Oh oh, thought I was safe, see you're all online now. Head ducking below parapet!! Pass me my tin hat. ;-))

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[tcm]

Re: Dictionary corner

indeedy, I will go and a lump of coal to chuck at you! Oh, turns out there are no lump of coal any more. It'll have to be a compass catalogue.

Anyway, it's good to see that things have much improved up north, what with um, well, Leeds United players are now much better behaved than when I lived up there in the 70s.

 

[hlb]

Re: The Great Ouse: Land of H\'s Father!

Come and visit the Treacle mines at Sabden. Of cource they dont do it that way now, All very high tec. stuff. But treacle toffee from mine extract is still best. They get sugar today from sugar beat or from sugar cane before. But in the olden days it came from the sabden treacle mines. All the miners had to be bald cos the engineer had worked out suction. So all miners were let down the shafts on suckers.
The history of Sabden treacle mines is well documented. And a visit to the musium quite worthwile.

Haydn

 

[longjohnsilver]

Compass

They must have been impressed with what I said about them, so impressed that they sent me a second catalogue over the weekend. Wasn't that kind of them. I contacted them and they requested that I forward it to you as you apparently showed some interest last week.

It's now in the post!!

 

[tcm]

Re: eek! nm

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[tcm]

Re: Treacle mines

Um well it does sound quite interesting. Your account of the place is strangely believable, and has a ring of mad gritty northern truth about it.

 

[tcm]

Re: oh hell, it\'s true...Treacle mines

Sabden Treacle Mines:Sabden Treacle Mines. Meet the small, furry Sabden
Treacle Miners hard at work in the Treacle ...
www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/cs/htm/nfbtreacl.htm

Forest Of Bowland - Places of Interest... IN-PENDLE; PENDLE HERITAGE CENTRE; ROMAN MUSEUM - RIBCHESTER; SABDEN TREACLE MINES- SABDEN; SAWLEY ABBEY; SCULPTURE TRAIL - RIBBLE VALLEY; STONEYHURST COLLEGE ...
www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/cs/htm/nfbplaces.htm

All Things Treacle - Ancient Mines... Many people, living in Lancashire, during the first forty years of the 20th century,knew about the Sabden treacle mines. Above Sabden village, where the road ...
www.treaclemine.freeserve.co.uk/Mines/Sabden.html

 

[hlb]

Re: Compass

I am slowly getting Tuts around to half term. sh-- she thinks its a holiday. sh. Trick is to say boat has mildew on curtains. and bed wet. That should get her down there.300 mile trip to sleep on, dreemed up excuse of wet bed. I mean could a bloke go for this. Are they all mad or only mine!! but tell here that the beds wet and mildew and shes all mine.

Haydn

 

[hlb]

Re: oh hell, it\'s true...Treacle mines

Now of course, living here. I could have done all this for you. but hardly believable. So left to Matt to look up, Government resorces, Treacle. And lo and behold. Sabden Treacle mines.
Endeth first leason. Mark chaper 1 verse 9

Haydn