Mobile Phones

[cris_408518]

1st camping trip I went on as a young single adult with a friend we had two of those tents they advertised on the back of the Saturdays Daily Mirror, Sleeping bag and twin ( we were posh bikers camping Gaz burners tied to our bikes and headed to Scotland with no idea of where the camp sites were.

1st continental trip we had a one way ticket and knew we could camp at a race track after that we had no idea where we were going and had lost our map at the 1st petrol station after the ferry. We spotted some French bikers and followed them and found are way to Spa and then spent six weeks learning about camping in Europe from Saltzberg to Lake Constance, Tuscany and the south of France and down into Spain, only a few Brit caravanners around in those days but a few fed us well in exchange for a beer or pushing the van into place ;-)

 

[Berty3]

Those were the Days.....................memories...............keep your mobile phones with or without car kits and take me back to the happier times of the 60s & the red phone boxes............bliss.

Berty.

 

[BeemerMal]

In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea. A cup o' cold tea, without milk or sugar. And tea in a cracked cup, an' all!

Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son". Aye, 'e was right. I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us!

Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road. Cardboard box?

You were lucky....We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today, with their mobile phones and ipods, that ..... and they won't believe you!

 

[cris_408518]

Sound like you had it tough Beemer

Where do we send the donations ;-)

 

[BeemerMal]

Sound like you had it tough Beemer

Where do we send the donations ;-)

All donations please to:

"The Four Yorkshiremen"

c/o Monty Python's Flying Circus.

 

[Berty3]

I'm overwhelmed, I can't see to type properly, my eyes are so full of tears.

Berty, (distraught, heart broken, in floods of tears, totally inconsolable)

 

[cris_408518]

I'd pass you a tissue Berty but you would probably want a bit of cotton or linen rather than new fangled paper technology ;-)

 

[BeemerMal]

Cotton, Cotton...luxury...you were lucky! I had to make do with an old greasy chip wrapper! LoL

 

[cris_408518]

We traveled the world as kids and even had maids and gardeners.

 

[Berty3]

Travelling the world to me as a kid was a day trip to Skegness! Memories.

Berty...

 

[cris_408518]

I have to say that as a kid I had and a truly idyllic up bringing traveling to exotic places 1st class on planes and boys and trains.

I've lead a simple life ever since in comparison to my youth.

 

[LizCornwall]

Hi Cris, like us all I had a very good life with parents, trips to Southend, Margate, every year, top class hotels, cannnot afford it nowdays. Liz

 

[CarolineSimon]

FAO Liz,

Slightly off the thread, are you allowed to give me details of your camp site as we like Cornwall & go once a yr if we can, the children love it? Maybe we could have a hands free or wireless chat about it??

Ps I have a bluetooth headset but try not to use the phone whilst driving as it's just another distraction on top of the children, although when I worked full time before kids I was expected to answer work calls whilst driving although I was hands free thrn it's very difficult to have a business conversation whilst driving as you can't write anything dowm.

Caroline

 

[Marc1]

Last December I was overtaken by a Shogun towing a horse box going up Leadenham hill on the A17. This may not seem excessive but at the time the driver was on his mobile phone. I decided to slow down slightly to let him go and wished he could have passed his phone to lady in the passenger seat. Lunacy hardly seems to cover it.

Marc

 

[LizCornwall]

Hi Caroline, Not sure that I can advertise site on this forum we are situated just outside Truro. We are a private site. So we are well situated for all locations i.e. Eden Project, we have no club house, nor swimming pool, just a quite site, but convenient to all places. We do have rallies here, same rallies more or less every year. We are a 4 star site. Liz

 

[CarolineSimon]

Thanks Liz,

I will consult my sites books & try to locate you!

 

[BrianStAlbans]

I have to say that as a kid I had and a truly idyllic up bringing traveling to exotic places 1st class on planes and boys and trains.

I've lead a simple life ever since in comparison to my youth.

1st class on planes and "boys" and trains.

Is that legal ?

 

[LizCornwall]

To Caroline, Ok from Liskey

 

[BrianStAlbans]

Caroline & Simon

http://www.oakwood-village.com/Campsite/D/cslevel2.asp?sku=CAMP151&dept_id=3162#
hope this helps

Brian (",)

 

[LizCornwall]

Have you found me Brian?

 

[BrianStAlbans]

Liz,which one is you in the picture ;O)

Looks a nice site.

Brian (",)

 

[LizCornwall]

I am not in photo's only daughter, tiss a nice site, I work here Liz

 

[LizCornwall]

Hum!! I'm too busy, tiss a nice site Liz

 

[BrianStAlbans]

I envy you Liz, would love to do the same. We have looked into buying land in Spain to open a small site but my father is very ill and it's not a good time so have put on hold.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Daily Express - today.

Direct Line did research on the amount of people still using mobile phones whilst driving.

The worst offenders are in Cardiff where 188 out of 1,469 (12.8%) drivers were seen to be on their phones.

In second place were (dare I say it in here) 4x4 drivers where 55 out of 1,247 (4.4%) were observed.