they troop out all forms of reasons for the demise of pubs and clubs...in the seventies Doncaster and district C.I.U. had 365 members [clubs] I dont know but i reckon there might be about 65 left.. what i noticed in the 80s was the invent of home-brew or rather the rise in participants... guys were coming into the club at ten pissed up getting a half pint then rocking to the turns last spot...lol.. absoloutly nothing we could do about it, but it certainly shrunk the amount of clubs and pubs... do folk still do home-brew?

yes looking back solves little, I am 85 if i had continued down the mine i doubt i would be sat here now...everyone thinks Scargill called the strike, a much sharper mind than his simply lit the touch-paper a stepped back, she held out the hoop and he dived thru followed by all of us,,,, the real criminals of the strike were the mine officials, they had a vote knowing that if the pits closed their pensions were as good as their wages, so for them it was a no brainer, they voted to stay in work, which allowed the scab pits to continue whereas if they had come out ever pit ceased production
lets see who else can i blame...lol.. the canteen ladies..lol... bless them they were out if their pit was out...yesterday was history and resolves nowt...but similar idiots are making even bigger mistakes with the migrants and keep opening new boxes of sticking plaster when its obvious only amputation will solve anything.. but thankfully its not a problem for me to worry about, goodluck to the younger element your gonna need it.

Joan was going to a Christmas do
She'd bought a new dress and sparkly shoes
Her eyelashes were over an inch
Her lippy was a fluoescent pink
Hoping she'd collar Phil for a smooze

Owww. What's happened. She's fallen down
"Damn heel" she cries out with a frown
There she lays legs akimbo
Looking like a drunken bimbo

I'm similar every day. I get up and pull on my scruffs. Eventually I'll get a shower and dress in a slightly less scruffy set of scruffs. 

Quote from: GrannyMac on <strong>Today</strong> at 07:23:37 AMWe've been paying the same amount to BHF for years! Never increased or been asked to IICRC.

I wonder if the signup was through chuggers and it is them doing the nagging. If the signup was in a supermarket, shopping arcade, on a town street or at the door it would probably have been chuggers. They get a large percentage of such donations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fundraising

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