Making the news today....

[Stubby]

3 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Crikey. Hope he’s ok 

 

 

Was it a solid piece of paper , or one with holes in ?

[sime42]

Was it a solid piece of paper , or one with holes in ?

Or maybe a little piece of paper carefully folded up with some white powder inside.

[openspaceman]

6 minutes ago, sime42 said:

1 hour ago, Stubby said:

Was it a solid piece of paper , or one with holes in ?

Or maybe a little piece of paper carefully folded up with some white powder inside.

I'll sing you a story of my uncle Jim

Somebody threw a tomato at him

Tomatoes don't hurt you, I said with a grin,...

[Stubby]

9 hours ago, openspaceman said:

I'll sing you a story of my uncle Jim

Somebody threw a tomato at him

Tomatoes don't hurt you, I said with a grin,...

But this bugger did it was still in the tin .

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, Stubby said:

But this bugger did it was still in the tin .

This is a family song so:

This one it did it was wrapped in a tin

 

 

I cannot remember any of the other verses but I associate it with the yard at devonport

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

3 hours ago, openspaceman said:

This is a family song so:

This one it did it was wrapped in a tin

 

 

I cannot remember any of the other verses but I associate it with the yard at devonport

When were you in the yard?

[openspaceman]

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

When were you in the yard?

Never, my father was determined to get away and came to Surrey. All my male cousins seemed to work there and have passed away, asbestos related cancers.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

56 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Never, my father was determined to get away and came to Surrey. All my male cousins seemed to work there and have passed away, asbestos related cancers.

I well remember the 'lagging teams' in the old steam boiler ships...  My TKD instructor is a proper Plymuff bey and an ex-yardy from the scaffolding gang back in the day.  He was actually at a funeral yesterday, he's been to quite a few recently - lots of them ex-yardies.

 

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[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I well remember the 'lagging teams' in the old steam boiler ships...  My TKD instructor is a proper Plymuff bey and an ex-yardy from the scaffolding gang back in the day.  He was actually at a funeral yesterday, he's been to quite a few recently - lots of them ex-yardies.

 

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Yes it's very sad but I'm not sure what my cousins did, one of the three was definitely a carpenter and the eldest one left early and became a publican yet they three all died from asbestos related disease. I don't think any got to my age now.

 

In my teens we would have raucous family gatherings for weddings and such at a ex serviceman's club somewhere off union street.

[difflock]

My first boss started with "The Corporation" or the Council in Londonderry, and talked about the men mixing the dry asbestos fibres with runny fire cement and plastering it in and around pipework and boilers with their bare hands. Probably in the middle 1980's when asbestos related deaths started to spike or were newsworthy. Anyway I remember him discussing it. He however is as healthy as a trout in his 90's.