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  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Barriers just closed
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,227
    Is that Jesus up front @markofkent
  • Curb_It said:
    Is that Jesus up front @markofkent
    yep ..... he is the only thing that keeps the camper rolling lol

    and we won promotion since he has been in the camper  <3
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Barriers just closed
    You on Maybanks pier @Baldybonce ?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    .....scrap that, Maybanks pier in the photo lol
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
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    You on Maybanks pier @Baldybonce ?
    In the bargeworks.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited October 2019
    Barriers just closed
    You on Maybanks pier @Baldybonce ?
    In the bargeworks.
    Used to catch the eels off Maybanks pier and down on the shoreline at low tide
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Mad old river by the barrier there, you'd be catching flattys as the tide came in and there'd be roach and frogs as the tide went out. Must've been right on the point where salt water went to fresh
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    edited October 2019
    My uncles had rowing boats they'd built themselves moored in front of the Yacht pub. As 9/10 year olds we borrowed them and rowed down to the barges and played on them.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited October 2019
    Up towards Greenwich from where you are, there used to be an old wooden pier with a big old rusty crane on it, caked in pigeon shit. We used shimmy up the jib, dangle off and drop into the water from it. Never done us no harm
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  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Up towards Greenwich from where you are, there used to be an old wooden pier with a big old rusty crane on it, caked in pigeon shit. We used shimmy up the jib, dangle off and drop into the water from it. Never done us no harm
    Kids now would never be allowed to do anything like what we used to do.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    lol. Our safe place was the walk way! After beating the under current and wading through the 2 foot of mud
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    My grandad said he used to swim up by Greenwich pier. They used to use the last person to get out’s shirt to dry themselves.

    He also said you’d often see dead animals floating by (amongst other things)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    My grandad said he used to swim up by Greenwich pier. They used to use the last person to get out’s shirt to dry themselves.

    He also said you’d often see dead animals floating by (amongst other things)
    We used to drown a week old kitten to attract the eels in
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    ...and older than a week and they'dd scratch your arm to buggery
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    Great Photo that @Baldybonce
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    Finally the rain stopped, Tropical Darrzzet this evening
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Great Photo that @Baldybonce
    Cheers. Just spur of the moment on my phone.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Do you work on the river @Baldybonce?
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  • Baldybonce
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    Do you work on the river @Baldybonce?
    Sometimes. Afternoons at the bargeworks.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Do you work on the river @Baldybonce?
    Sometimes. Afternoons at the bargeworks.
    Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Do you work on the river @Baldybonce?
    Sometimes. Afternoons at the bargeworks.
    Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back 
    I’m a contractor so just visiting. Like yourself i tried to get on the river when i left school but no luck. Until recently it was father to son but even now it’s who you know..
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Do you work on the river @Baldybonce?
    Sometimes. Afternoons at the bargeworks.
    Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back 
    I’m a contractor so just visiting. Like yourself i tried to get on the river when i left school but no luck. Until recently it was father to son but even now it’s who you know..
    There was a well known family who passed it down. They were into the Lighterman / Waterman rowing race thing. I think they are more pleasure boats though. And there was a ginger lad I used to have mutual friends with, he was the youngest to get his Thames licence apparently. That's all changed too, the EU brought in different rules and the quality of people has gone down hill, so I've been told
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Do you work on the river @Baldybonce?
    Sometimes. Afternoons at the bargeworks.
    Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back 
    I’m a contractor so just visiting. Like yourself i tried to get on the river when i left school but no luck. Until recently it was father to son but even now it’s who you know..
    There was a well known family who passed it down. They were into the Lighterman / Waterman rowing race thing. I think they are more pleasure boats though. And there was a ginger lad I used to have mutual friends with, he was the youngest to get his Thames licence apparently. That's all changed too, the EU brought in different rules and the quality of people has gone down hill, so I've been told
    If i’m correct the ginger lad is still here and i’ve just been talking to him :)
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,227
    Photos only no discussion.
    ahem.  
    tho i did slip myself. 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Curb_It said:
    Photos only no discussion.
    ahem.  
    tho i did slip myself. 
    Just for you while i’m killing time
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026



    Why on earth would I want to click and collect. I'm in the shop!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948

  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Stig said:



    Why on earth would I want to click and collect. I'm in the shop!
    This happened to us last week funnily enough. We went to get a cheap hoover for some building work I'm doing and it said online there was 31 in stock. When we go down the shop, there was only an opened box on the shelf, so I asked the assistant if she could get another from outback, but she instead, scanned the bar code on the price tag on the shelf, gave a code and we had to go and pay at the checkout, using the code, the wait in collections FOR 20 MINUTES for them to bring the hoover out,