Flotsam and Jetsam

[theoldfart2]

Bloody marvellous scenes round the Back of the Wight in the last few days.

A load of timber, seems to have been jettisoned from a ship and has been washing in on the beaches.

The world and his wife have been down here collecting it,, and this time the bloody council didn't close the beach and pay for their employees to cart it away and burn it , like they did the last time.

But yesterday, when it was really blowing and people were risking life and limb between the waves to get a piece of driftwood, a police car drew up at the Bay.

I sauntered over to have a yarn and see if they were going to close the beach, which they wernt , they had just come down to see the waves.

The copper wound down the window and asked me, what the people were getting off the promenade between waves.

'Wood'. I replied.

'Is that all wood out there' ? He asked pointing to the large raft like load of planks going back and forth in the tide.

'Yes' I replied  'Its washing in all along the coast'

'Where did it all come from he asked?'

'Trees' I told him.

Young coppers know nothing.

I know this ain't really about fishing but I doubt there is much being done with this bloody weather. 

[loopy78]

Young'uns in general TOF!!

[Sunny]

Be a few sheds and such getting done then :0)

[theoldfart2]

Back in the 50s and60s me and the old chap used to go round the rocks at low tide at night and shoot the pigeons that roosted up in the caves on the cliffs.

Times was hard then and 10 or so pigeons every two weeks in the winter made a difference.

Anyhow one night we was off round the rocks with our BSA Airsporter and our Pifco Lantern torch (anyone remember those?) when we see a shiny tin on the beach, about the size of one of those catering tins. No label, just a big shiny  tin .

We picked it up and it was quite light ,so it wasn't paint.

'I reconsider that is coffee, Nipper ' says the old man, 'or could be backy' 

Then we sees another one, and another, there were loads of them.

We had no way to open them ,so we starts to carry them back home. 

Back and fort over the rocks we went, then all along the shingle, and along the prom.

It took us bloody ages, but eventually we had every last tin, making sure no other bugger got them.

Course we had no car back then, come to that , we had no washing machine, TV, freezer, or fridge, but we had a larder! 

(The following year, we got a TV, (one on legs) and a Creda Debonaire Spin Dryer (remember those?) load that up wrong and it would walk round the kitchen.)
 
So after our trips along the beach, we had to walk all the tins back home.

Eventually we had them all stored back home, so finally the old chap openers one up.

Would it be backy, ? would it be coffee?

I, to this day remember the old chap prising off the lid and underneath was a foil seal.

'Looks good Nipper, ' said the old chap, then he cut into the seal.

Sliced dried carrots!!

Every bloody tin ,was sliced dried carrots.

Still not to be outdone,mother cooked them up the next day for dinner.

They tasted like dried cardboard.

After, a week of this torture, we gave up and as even the chickens wouldn't eat them , we chucked the lot away.

We reckoned that some cook on board a ship chucked the bloody lot overboard.

To this day I wish I could meet him, preferably on a dark night with a crowbar in my hand 

Still happy old days back then beach combing.

[theoldfart2]

Incidentally ..back in those days ,when we did get the TV, which was in black and white, we had decent program's on it, not like the crap today.

We had Boots and Saddles, Whirleybirds with Chuck and PT, Cannonball Express with Casey Jones , Super Car, Fireball XL5, Rag Tag and Bobtail, Bootsy and Snudge, The Rag Trade, Steptow and Son ,ZCars, and best of all the intermission.

Those were the days.

Any other Old Farts remember those ?

And when we went fishing we had split cane rods, proper rods they were, but there again there were fish in the sea. 

Mind you we also has Whooping Cough, Scarlet fever , Mumps, Chicken Pox, Measles and Tonsillitis.

I had than all as did all my friends, no sissy inoculations for us back on those days.

And we walked to school in thick snow in short trousers, wrapped in our Duffle coats 

Bloody kids today don't know the meaning of life!

Well as the weather is so crap we can't go fishing, we might as well yarn about something, either that or watch ' I am a gay politically correct fading celebrate, who needs the money so now I am making a prat of myself by dancing on ice so please get me out of here' on theTV.

Mind you that is better than watching the bloody cricket!

[snoopy54]

Oh F***

I remember all those programmes.........

My first Rod was a Split Cane ........

Does that mean..... does that mean ....

I,m sorry,I cant continue - got all emotional ..

[theoldfart2]

And if you remember on the radio.... The Goons,  Two Way Family Favourites,(Allways on Sunday lunchtime)  Round the Horn, The Navy Lark,  I'm Sorry I'll read that again , Round my Way with Brian Johnson.

And what about the TV adds, back then?

proper adverts they were. 

Remember the singing petrol pumps? The good old Fairy Liquid adds, 'now hand that do dishes can be soft as your face. ,etc' The Babysham advert every Xmas, the little drink with the big kick! And of course a lot later the bounty bar/ Hamlet/ Cadburys flake adverts with bits of hot Totty in them.

Spootnick going into space, the world on the edged of a nucular war, Kennady shot, ( I remember where I was) and then we had real music to listen to, Elvis, Buddy Holly then the Beatles, Stones Who etc etc

Great times!

Thing is ,way back then we had a spoon for flatfish, a spinner or feathers for mackerel, and everything else we caught on a line with a hook , weight and swivell .
We never had a rig for this or a rig for that .
If you were fishing for sole,small hook and worm, for Bass big hook and half a herring , it wasn't rocket silence then, I wonder why it is now? 

Oh Yeha don't forget, Double your Money, Opportunity Knocks, Twizzle, Bill and Ben, Dixon of Dock Green, Ready steady Go, Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg, 

all that were 1000 times better than any X box, Internet , Tablet, I phone.  

They don't know they are born today. 

And you could get 5 Parkdrive (fags) for a penny hapeny.

[snoopy54]

Then there was Tenderfoot and Gunslinger and Bronco Lane...... Texas Rangers ...... I liked
Westerns.Lawman was another - Eliot Ness and the Untouchables - I had to beg my Dad to let me
stay up and watch that. Highway Patrol,Fireball XL5 ........ eeee them were the Days

[Sunny]

most pre-dated me by a few years....but I do recall our family getting the first tv on legs. My dad replacing all the doors in the house with those aweful sliding things....because they were the latest thing

My favourite was Jack Hargreaves with his show - Out of Town - all about fishing and country ways....flippin awesome.

[theoldfart2]

The first DR Who, Elliot Ness, was that Robert Stack without cheating and going on Google. 

Course the finest of them all was 'Tales of the River Bank' staring Hammy the Hamster, filmed on the IOW. 

Mystery and Imagination , the scared one, and the all time trendsetting classic, The Prisoner. 

The Avengers, Adam Adamant, The Munsters, Car 54 , but which one started with 'The names have been changed to protect the innocent' was that The Untouchables?

And a bit later there were that couple who went diving, didn't he invent the scooba a gear, was it someone Taylor or have I got that wrong? 

Mind you I lost interest in the TV after a certain program called Corrination Street started, with Ena Sharples and Minni Colewell trying to chat up Albert Tatlock. I could see that was the beginning of the end. 

Mind you we did watch Grandstand every Saturday, and the wrestling with Kent Walton, staring Less Kellet ( isn't he Elvis Costellos uncle), The Royal Brothers, Tally Ho Kayne' Kendo Nagazaki,   Aye that is what Saturday afternoons were about, and it was all real in those days, not like the put up wrestling of today,  Honnest!    

[skyetoyman]

Hans and Lotte Hass ."Dragnet" Jacky Palo. To name but a few.
Jacques Cousteau - aqua lung

[theoldfart2]

That was the guy, a Frenchman, but a genius. 

The Undersea World of Jacques Causteau 

I think he must have been the first one to 'bring the Oceans'  into our living rooms as it were.

And Dragnet, that was the one.

What was the one where they put the contestant into a big glass box and asked him or her questions? Was that Double your money? Come to that which one had the lot of boxes and you could 'Open the Box' or take the money.

I remember Hughie Green and Monica Rose , somewhere in this. 

But there again I remember the Black and White minstrels on Saturday night, ( can you imagine the uproar if they put that on now) and the highlight of the week, Dixon of Dock Green, oh and who was the chap who started out as the Hot Chestnut Man, and ended up doing all the voices for the animals in a zoo. was it Johnny someone.

[skyetoyman]

Double your money Hughie Green -- Johnny Morris "animal magic" - take your pick with micheal miles.
I watch alot of telly

[theoldfart2]

Take your pick!  What a classic, 

and Rawhide, and the one with a very young Clint. Eastwood, and the one with Marshal Dillion, was that  Gunsmoke?

There again we did have to suffer The Gang Show, and that bloody awfull one where everyone dressed up in old dresses and suits and the compare used lots of long words that everyone went Oooooohh and Arrrrrrrgh when he said them . 

And possibly the first cookery program with Johnny someone and his wife, and the modern day Tommy Walsh aka, Barry Bucknell, ( neither in my opinion know bugger all about building) 

And the Andy Williams show ,with the cooky bear , but that was later.

Mind you the jingles for the adverts were the best ,,,,,

'Rise and shine, go to work on a egg'

'Blue, blue,blue, blue ,Esso blue'

' When you fancy a fruity treat, unzip a banana'

Happy old times!

[richi]

Jan 10, 2014 19:49:03 GMT theoldfart2 said:

Take your pick!  What a classic, 

and Rawhide, and the one with a very young Clint. Eastwood, and the one with Marshal Dillion, was that  Gunsmoke?

There again we did have to suffer The Gang Show, and that bloody awfull one where everyone dressed up in old dresses and suits and the compare used lots of long words that everyone went Oooooohh and Arrrrrrrgh when he said them . 

The good old days it was called I believe

And possibly the first cookery program with Johnny someone and his wife,

Fanny?