General Chit Chat

[thebish]

had a rare sunday off today - so did all the things normal people do on a sunday (or so I'm told!)

1. lie in
2. be forced to get up due to crossness when extended radio interview comes on radio with Pritti Patel
3. huge cooked breakfast
4. fanny about on the internet
5. tinker with the bike - free up jammed kick-stand cut-off button, tighten chain, lube some bits, clean and lube chain, wash bike
6. wash car (as i had the stuff out!)
7. have some dinner
8. polish off last episode of Homeland
9. eat some chocolate cake and biscuits

I could get used to this - and it's still only just gone 4pm!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

had a rare sunday off today - so did all the things normal people do on a sunday (or so I'm told!)

1. lie in
2. be forced to get up due to crossness when extended radio interview comes on radio with Pritti Patel
3. huge cooked breakfast
4. fanny about on the internet
5. tinker with the bike - free up jammed kick-stand cut-off button, tighten chain, lube some bits, clean and lube chain, wash bike
6. wash car (as i had the stuff out!)
7. have some dinner
8. polish off last episode of Homeland
9. eat some chocolate cake and biscuits

I could get used to this - and it's still only just gone 4pm!

I do none of those things on a Sunday before 4pm. Does this mean I'm not normal?
EDIT except a little bit of 4, internet fannying.

[thebish]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

Which I admitted...

[thebish]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

Which I admitted...

Ahh - I see an edit addition!

You also must have had some dinner...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

Which I admitted...

Ahh - I see an edit addition!

You also must have had some dinner...

I have dinner at 8pm each night. My only meal, each and every day with exceptions on holiday, sometimes.

[Harry Genshaw]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

Which I admitted...

Ahh - I see an edit addition!

You also must have had some dinner...

I have dinner at 8pm each night. My only meal, each and every day with exceptions on holiday, sometimes.

You dont eat until 8pm every day?

[Hoboh]

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day man!
Maybe not in your case but those I know that skimped a decent brekkie spent most of he day topping up with any old shite!

[thebish]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

Which I admitted...

Ahh - I see an edit addition!

You also must have had some dinner...

I have dinner at 8pm each night. My only meal, each and every day with exceptions on holiday, sometimes.

that would be your tea then!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day man!
Maybe not in your case but those I know that skimped a decent brekkie spent most of he day topping up with any old shite!

Well I don't (top up with any old shite). I don't top up at all. I eat one meal a day and have done so since the age of eighteen. If I'm going to do a particularly arduous walk into the mountains I may occasionally have a breakfast before I set out - but I'm talking twelve hour treks of forty miles or so over three or more mountains of three thousand feet of ascent. I don't do those every day. I've probably eaten about three breakfasts in the last year in total. I very occassionally have some oranges, bunch of grapes, cherries, apples, bananas or other fruit at 'dinner time'. I've maybe eaten fruit around midday on about twenty five days over the last year.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Well, as far as I can see you did number 4!

Which I admitted...

Ahh - I see an edit addition!

You also must have had some dinner...

I have dinner at 8pm each night. My only meal, each and every day with exceptions on holiday, sometimes.

that would be your tea then!

Indeed. I'm quite relaxed on that debate, because as I see it, it's my breakfast and my dinner, my tea and supper, win win win win situation.

[TANGODANCER]

Anybody old enough/able to recognise this? Found the pic and the vintage Vauxhall Cresta parked outside Bridgemen Street swimming baths. They closed in the seventies sometime. Used to have our weekly swim from Bolton Tech there as it was just around the corner from Bridgemen Place which was part of the Tech.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Anybody old enough/able to recognise this? Found the pic and the vintage Vauxhall Cresta parked outside Bridgemen Street swimming baths. They closed in the seventies sometime. Used to have our weekly swim from Bolton Tech there as it was just around the corner from Bridgemen Place which was part of the Tech.

I'm old enough but I never used those swimming baths and don't remember them. However, I'm fairly certain it was Bridgeman St. not Bridgemen St. I do remember the Turkish baths on Great Moor St. but never used those either.

[clapton is god]

^ I went there occasionally but was nearer to Moss Street (and the cockroaches). I used the roller skating room upstairs more than the pool though. There was a bakers shop almost opposite the building and our Saturday treat as a 10yr old was a swim followed by a freshly baked loaf each, or if at Moss Street baths a visit to the temperance bar on Waterloo Street for a sarsaparilla or nettle beer. Happy days!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ I went there occasionally but was nearer to Moss Street (and the cockroaches). I used the roller skating room upstairs more than the pool though. There was a bakers shop almost opposite the building and our Saturday treat as a 10yr old was a swim followed by a freshly baked loaf each, or if at Moss Street baths a visit to the temperance bar on Waterloo Street for a sarsaparilla or nettle beer. Happy days!

That brought floods of memories back all sparked by Martha and the Cockroaches, a particularly naff but visually startling female punk/skinhead/rockabilly fusion band I saw a few times in the Swinging Apple.

[Beefheart]

In Basel this week for work. It's a bit of weird place! We came out of the airport, walked over to the taxi rank, told the guy where we wanted to go. He gave us a funny look and said 'You're in France, you need to go back into the airport then go out of the Switzerland door'. So we did, and it was just the same driver in a different hat and a false moustache! (ok that last bit was made up but the rest is true). The languages are all over the place! There's German, French and Italian going on. This is what happens when you're outside of the EU, I thought. There are no rules, it's chaos.

Then, when we got the hotel I found that instead of complementary biscuits, we'd been given complementary salami sausages! If that wasn't enough, there was also a fridge full of free beers in the hallway! If this is what life outside the EU is like, then I may be switching my allegiances to team #brexit

[Lost Leopard Spot]

In Basel this week for work. It's a bit of weird place! We came out of the airport, walked over to the taxi rank, told the guy where we wanted to go. He gave us a funny look and said 'You're in France, you need to go back into the airport then go out of the Switzerland door'. So we did, and it was just the same driver in a different hat and a false moustache! (ok that last bit was made up but the rest is true). The languages are all over the place! There's German, French and Italian going on. This is what happens when you're outside of the EU, I thought. There are no rules, it's chaos.

Then, when we got the hotel I found that instead of complementary biscuits, we'd been given complementary salami sausages! If that wasn't enough, there was also a fridge full of free beers in the hallway! If this is what life outside the EU is like, then I may be switching my allegiances to team #brexit

If your firm goes bust suddenly and you are temporarily short of money, here's a handy tip. The streets are heated - as in warm, as in you can sleep on them nice and comfortably (well outside the railway station at the very least, if you can avoid the cantonal police. The feds are alright, well they were back in the late 70s anyway).

Oh and another thing, which I found out last year on my way through, most places you can pay in Euros and get Swiss Francs in change, very obliging.

[Hoboh]

In Basel this week for work. It's a bit of weird place! We came out of the airport, walked over to the taxi rank, told the guy where we wanted to go. He gave us a funny look and said 'You're in France, you need to go back into the airport then go out of the Switzerland door'. So we did, and it was just the same driver in a different hat and a false moustache! (ok that last bit was made up but the rest is true). The languages are all over the place! There's German, French and Italian going on. This is what happens when you're outside of the EU, I thought. There are no rules, it's chaos.

Then, when we got the hotel I found that instead of complementary biscuits, we'd been given complementary salami sausages! If that wasn't enough, there was also a fridge full of free beers in the hallway! If this is what life outside the EU is like, then I may be switching my allegiances to team #brexit

Typical Chaos of the EU states, no wonder they cannot get anything done!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

In Basel this week for work. It's a bit of weird place! We came out of the airport, walked over to the taxi rank, told the guy where we wanted to go. He gave us a funny look and said 'You're in France, you need to go back into the airport then go out of the Switzerland door'. So we did, and it was just the same driver in a different hat and a false moustache! (ok that last bit was made up but the rest is true). The languages are all over the place! There's German, French and Italian going on. This is what happens when you're outside of the EU, I thought. There are no rules, it's chaos.

Then, when we got the hotel I found that instead of complementary biscuits, we'd been given complementary salami sausages! If that wasn't enough, there was also a fridge full of free beers in the hallway! If this is what life outside the EU is like, then I may be switching my allegiances to team #brexit

Typical Chaos of the EU states, no wonder they cannot get anything done!

Switzerland ain't EU. Schengen, yes; EU, no.

[TANGODANCER]

^ I went there occasionally but was nearer to Moss Street (and the cockroaches). I used the roller skating room upstairs more than the pool though. There was a bakers shop almost opposite the building and our Saturday treat as a 10yr old was a swim followed by a freshly baked loaf each, or if at Moss Street baths a visit to the temperance bar on Waterloo Street for a sarsaparilla or nettle beer. Happy days!

To answer two posts in one: Yes, Monty it was Bridgeman Street, just typos. As I said, I went to school at Bridgeman Place so I'll have to write it out fifty times. The Turkish Baths building still stands in Great Moor Street and you may find this interesting:
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Clapton. That Temperance bar was Johnny Sheffields and we went in there a lot as teens. There was a real dive of a greasy spoon on Moss Street corner called Joe's Cafe, and is my mind playing tricks or was there a small branch of a Trustee Savings Bank on the corner opposite the Waterloo Hotel? I remember that bakery shop across from Bridgeman Street Baths too.

Bolton Tech had three locations and we had lessons in all of them weekly. The main and best remembered building was on Manchester Road, Bridgeman Place was around the corner and the third ( my favourite) was Chadwick House down Bromwich Street. I mention this because Chadwick House was originally Chadwick Orphanage, founded and built by the same Samuel Taylor Chadwick Bruce mentioned a couple of days ago, and whose statue stands on Bolton town hall square.