If the wind changes...

[RED-DOG]

Don't look into the mirror at night because you will see the Devil.

Thinking about it, it's amazing I turned out so well adjusted.

[kinboshi]

Ouija boards.

[RED-DOG]

Ouija boards.

I'm still scared of ouija boards.

[tikay]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

[tikay]

Don't look into the mirror at night because you will see the Devil.

Thinking about it, it's amazing I turned out so well adjusted.

You did?

[RED-DOG]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

[RED-DOG]

Bloody Hell Tone, we're turning into Flanagan & Allen.

[tikay]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

If I may put you right Tom - well I'm going to anyway - what on earth is a "road mender"?

We don't mend roads, we repair, rebuild or replace them. "Road Mender" is something I'd expect to see in The Sun, or Woman's Weekly.


"Road mender" falls into the same department as that ridiculous expression  we see so often in the media, "workmen". WTF is a "workman"?

[EvilPie]

Ouija boards.

I'm still scared of ouija boards.

Me too. I have no idea whether they work or not and I have no intention of ever finding out.

[arbboy]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

If I may put you right Tom - well I'm going to anyway - what on earth is a "road mender"?

We don't mend roads, we repair, rebuild or replace them. "Road Mender" is something I'd expect to see in The Sun, or Woman's Weekly.


"Road mender" falls into the same department as that ridiculous expression  we see so often in the media, "workmen". WTF is a "workman"?

. 

Road mender used to be a nightclub in Northampton when I was growing up. No idea how it got its name or if it still exists.

[RED-DOG]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

If I may put you right Tom - well I'm going to anyway - what on earth is a "road mender"?

We don't mend roads, we repair, rebuild or replace them. "Road Mender" is something I'd expect to see in The Sun, or Woman's Weekly.


"Road mender" falls into the same department as that ridiculous expression  we see so often in the media, "workmen". WTF is a "workman"?

Click to see full-size image.

Road-mender at Blackburn. Image supplied courtesy of Violet Carson

[RED-DOG]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

If I may put you right Tom - well I'm going to anyway - what on earth is a "road mender"?

We don't mend roads, we repair, rebuild or replace them. "Road Mender" is something I'd expect to see in The Sun, or Woman's Weekly.


"Road mender" falls into the same department as that ridiculous expression  we see so often in the media, "workmen". WTF is a "workman"?

. 

Road mender used to be a nightclub in Northampton when I was growing up. No idea how it got its name or if it still exists.

[tikay]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

If I may put you right Tom - well I'm going to anyway - what on earth is a "road mender"?

We don't mend roads, we repair, rebuild or replace them. "Road Mender" is something I'd expect to see in The Sun, or Woman's Weekly.


"Road mender" falls into the same department as that ridiculous expression  we see so often in the media, "workmen". WTF is a "workman"?

Click to see full-size image.

Road-mender at Blackburn. Image supplied courtesy of Violet Carson

Violet Carson - are you kidding me? She was about as daft as Grandma Angell. In fact, she even looks like her.

Click to see full-size image.

[RED-DOG]

Ouija boards.

I'm still scared of ouija boards.

Me too. I have no idea whether they work or not and I have no intention of ever finding out.

Crazy isn't it. I would happily spend the night in a 'haunted house' or a graveyard, but play with a Ouija board? GTFO.

[RED-DOG]

"You have a cold, so go and stand by the  gasworks, that will clear your chest"

(This might be in the dead of winter)

Grandma Angell

I think there could be something in this one. We were told to stand by the road menders and smell the hot tar.

Yup, it was an "either/or".

In fact, when the guys came every 2 or 3 years to tar & grit our road, she'd say "go stand outside & smell that, in case you get a cold".

There's a belief that old people are wise, but I think it's a sort of bell curve thing, & Grandma Angell was 90 odd. In my judgement, we reach the top of that bell curve when we are in our late sixties.  Ralph is a shining example. 

Can you imagine anyone sending a small child out to stand by the road menders these days?

If I may put you right Tom - well I'm going to anyway - what on earth is a "road mender"?

We don't mend roads, we repair, rebuild or replace them. "Road Mender" is something I'd expect to see in The Sun, or Woman's Weekly.


"Road mender" falls into the same department as that ridiculous expression  we see so often in the media, "workmen". WTF is a "workman"?

Click to see full-size image.

Road-mender at Blackburn. Image supplied courtesy of Violet Carson

Violet Carson - are you kidding me? She was about as daft as Grandma Angell. In fact, she even looks like her.

Click to see full-size image.

I bet Granny Angell didn't send you out to stand by the 'Road Rebuilders".