Keith Scantlebury

Have they got leccy in that part of Bedlington like ? sheeeesh, talk about being affluent, they're on it like a car bonnet

Rossini's Italian restaurant.

Got to agree there then

easy for you to say

MEN , KITCHEN !!!!! . Do all houses have these ? ( A kitchen that is ) I sometimes see the wife disappear into another room and come out again with cooked food. Could a mystery be solved here ?

Nowt like a little light reading eh. jeeeeeez

Aye, Nostalgia aint what it used to be , is it ?

we went as well. Always a nice sunny day as well. Remember going with the 14th Bedlington Scouts ( the ones at the Sally Army).

You must have SOME bloody cat flap in your door marra

Done , Its festering away now. Just short of 2 gallon . 5lb + elderberries stripped 6ib sugar hoyed in . will be in demi johns next weekend 6 weeks later in bottles then we will see if I can leave it alone for 6 months or so. Soon as we get a frost the sloe gin will get going.

Going into the garden now to strip the elderberry trees of their fruits before those greedy pigeons and their marras get too many. Should manage to get a couple of gallons or so on the go. Should be ready for next Summer.

Waiting for the sloes ... hic $R%E^&....... mebe get some blackberry wine on the go as well .... double hic ^%&^%$

I was talking with Ian Lavery last Saturday (7th). He came to Burnside on what he calls a " street surgery". A leaflet was put through doors a couple of days before and if anyone wanted to talk to him they placed it in their window where it could be seen and he would stop for a chat. He spent a bit of time with me and he seemed to take on board what I had to say ( which is usually drivel ha ha ). What was noticeable was the lack of leaflets in the windows of those people who spend their time bemoaning the actions of our Parish Councillors, our County Councillors (who were all there as well ) and our MP. It seems that they are prepared to slag them off to other people and complain that they do nothing for us, yet they don't seem to want to vent their spleens in front of the people that matter , ie. Parish and County Councillor and the MP.

I remember one Bedlington lad giving the boxer a right good pasting. We still talk about it till this day.

Cash draw !!!! note my new address squatting in Johnsons shoe shop, Market place .....

Aye cos its the reet spellin, us at the station are quite posh yi kna borderin on been intelijunt

We just louped the wall from where we lived to get to the Whit weekend shows in Milnes field.

I can remember Graham Coatsworth going on about Bedlington Young Farmers Club. I think he may of hosted a ploughing match or two. Graham was actually a Yorkshireman who farmed Sleekburn cottage farm on the Barrington road. (now Keith Muters stables and livery yard ). Bedlington Young Farmers Club was not around when I was old enough to join, I was in the school YFC and later Tritlington YFC.

There was a Darling family in Bedlington when I was a kid, I cant remember much about them except for a daughter Audrey who was often seen out and about . She had mental health issues (as far as I remember) and she would wander about with her head tilted to one side. I don't know if there is any of the Darling family left in Bedlington now.

good line, "In these days of false idols and rats in a race"

A Roman walks into a bar, sticks two fingers up and says "can I have 5 beers please " A Budhist monk walks up to a hot dog seller and says "Can you make me one with everything "

I get seasick

They were at the Market Place before going to Glebe Road were'nt they Foxy ?

They were at the Market Place before going to Glebe Road were'nt they Foxy ?

so my idea is out the window then.!!!! I've been plaiting and knotting bits of string together for weeks to make a zip rope between trees and over the river down the woods. I was just about to persuade members of WBTC and EBPC to dress up as pixies and live down there for a while to act as guides and helpers to the hoards of kids who will be abandoned down there while their parents are living it up in the Clayton.