Holiday pics, and pub story.

[Tom D]

Here's a few pics of my weekend in Northumberland, "Sycamore Gap" in Hadrians Wall and a few others of the wall. And a really cool view of a large spruce rootplate.

 

 

 

 

 

And the pub story:

We were staying in a great pub which was full of locals and was the sort of place that shuts when the landlady gets tired and then everyone drives home. Most of the guys I spoke to were either harvester drivers or forwarder drivers, one of them told my this story about a colleague who was a bit of a character and liked a drink. One monday after a heavy night he turned up in the works van at 12.00 and got into his harvester to start work, he was feeling pretty ropey and worked through till five when all the others went home. They were paid by the ton so he'd had a pretty crap day so far and since her was starting to feel better he thought he'd work on a bit. By midnight he thought he'd done enough and left the harvester in the wood and walked back to the van. When he went to set off he found the van was stuck, all it needed was a little push but everyone else was long gone so he walked back to fetch the harvester.

On his return he couldn't find a rope but eventualy found a really short piece of dirty old stuff that one of the truck drivers had thrown away. He tied the van to the harvester and pulled it out, then, just as he was getting out of the cab the rope snapped. He ran after the van which was slowly accelerating backwards down the track and managed to get a finger on the bonnet before it dissapeared out of the harvesters floodlights and off down the track into the dark. He got back in the harvester and went looking for the van.

A hundred yards down the track he found it, it was lying in a ditch at the side of the track with the front wheels in the air but luckily there was no damage, he thought he was going to get away with it.

Tying the two broken ends together he attached the harvester on for the second time he draged the van out of the ditch. As he got down from the harvester he realised that things weren't going his way after all, this time the harvester was rolling back, all he could do was watch as the van was squashed into the ditch, it was about a foot thick apparently.

[Stephen Blair]

ha ha

[Catweazle]

When I worked shifts as a maintenance electrician I used to finish at 3am. One of the guys I worked with had a mini 1275gt with a very noisy exhaust and his wife complained that he was waking her up in the early hours as he got home, he decided to try to get home quietly.

 

He took a run up towards his house and cut the engine, intending to roll quietly up the drive. Unfortunately he had servo brakes on the mini which hardly worked with the engine off. Result was him driving through the garage goor at 3.30am. It woke his wife up.

[Yve_Clark]

Sycamore Gap - wasn't that the tree made famous in the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves movie?

[penfold]

Sycamore Gap - wasn't that the tree made famous in the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves movie?

 

yep. He then goes for a shower under Hardraw Force and fights little john at Aysgarth falls in yorkshire. Unless of course all three of these places are in Nottinghamshire:lol:

[Yve_Clark]

Unless of course all three of these places are in Nottinghamshire:lol:

 

No it was def. Northumberland Bamburgh Castle and Hulne Priory were used as Maid Marion's home and Sycamore Gap was where Robin first encountered Guy of Gisborne and his gang who were chasing Wilf.

 

(Sorry, thread drifting off course............)

[Tom D]

You are right, it was in robin hood. Its a nice looking tree close up looks pretty healthy and well balanced despite its exposed location.

[Mark Bolam]

Which pub was it mate?

[MattyF]

That is an awsome part of the country one of the last unspoilt places in england and not as many tourists as the lakes! hope you had a good time its where i usaully go for my hols ,my parents live about 10 miles from there so its always an easy option but never regret it but unfortunietly did this year as i havnt been since christmas!