Is this the perfect bivvy?

[Peter Waller]

Here are a couple Newt. Regretfully I have no colour shots. A well decorated wagon is an amazing bit of folk art.

 

[John S]

Peter Waller:

Here are a couple Newt. Regretfully I have no colour shots. A well decorated wagon is an amazing bit of folk art.

I've got one of those, in need of a little restoration however. I'll post a couple of photo's tomorrow....

 

Tight lines

[Dick Dastardly]

quote:

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Originally posted by Alan Stubbs:

My other half is seriously dyslexic... seeing the above reminded me that she told me the best dyslexic joke I ever heard:

 

2 dyslexic men talking to each other, one says 'Can you smell gas?'

 

The other replied 'Smell gas? I can't even smell my own name!' [/QB]

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In a similar non PC vein Alan,did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?

 

He used to lay awake all night worrying in case there was a Dog!

 

[ 11. February 2005, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: BUDGIE ]

[Alan Stubbs]

Wordbender:

Of course Lee's entirely correct. Try as I might, I just couldn't keep this thread on topic.    

 

I mean what IS the point of serious, dedicated anglers like my fine self giving all to the furtherance of the sport, when I'm surrounded by louts who simply REFUSE to take everything seriously, eh? Yes, Stubbs Minor - I'm looking at YOU boy!

 

It's enough to turn a fellow absolutely Waller, I tells yer! Now, I suggest you chaps either shape up, or ...um...er...jolly well take up embroidery or something. Let's have no more of this jocular shenanigans.

 

Yes, that's got 'em told and no mistake!    

I take plenty of things seriously Mr Wordbender, sir. Particularly light-heartedness!

Stitch that! You embroiderer, you!

 

Ah! A new collective noun. It's no longer a chapel of journalists, it's an embroidery thereof.

[Alan Stubbs]

Alan Fawcett:

 

...............aww gawd i'm all bloody confused now  

Since when was that difficult to achieve!

 

I still have 2 text messages from you Fawcett! Sorry, you just haven't offered enough camels for the trade to go ahead!

[Alan Stubbs]

BUDGIE:

Alan you have issues............serious issues                

 

Good job Newts fast asleep other wise this thread would have been locked by now!    

I can't argue with that. Being caught in the crossfire between a piker and a carper is causing serious collateral damage! Friendly fire? Hahaha!

[Alan Stubbs]

BUDGIE:

   

I often sit here wetting myself laughing over the stuff on here    

You aren't alone, that's for sure. I spent most of my working day chatting to you guys yesterday. it made what would otherwise have been very tedious into something really enjoyable.... serious issues notwithstanding

[Peter Waller]

John S:

 

I've got one of those, in need of a little restoration however. I'll post a couple of photo's tomorrow....

 

Tight lines [/QB]

See, so an angler does have one! How many shades of green is yours decorated in then John?

[Wordbender]

My dad used to live in a Vardo - first a Reading wagon, then a fancy bow-top - before that he lived in a bender, which was basically a tent made of canvas stretched loosely over hazel limbs.

 

He's had a most varied and interesting life, my dad and he's definitely responsible for my 'feral' mindset. Neither of us are happy being cooped-up and we both need to be outdoors among what matters most to us.

 

Mind you, he reckons living in the Vardos and benders was hell at times. 'We froze in the winter, roasted in the summer and if the lice got in only burning would get rid of them.'

 

Not entirely the raggle-taggle romanticism you'd expect, I guess, but he actually lived it for real. He's a remarkable man and I'll tell his story one day, for sure.

[Peter Waller]

Apparently no more than 6% of U.K.Romany now live in vans. Whether by choice or because of circumstance I don't know. Pity, good people.