What can you say.

[5150]

Same here Alan, out of the door and it was an open field, farm land and woods. Could raise hell all day without disturbing anyone - but at the same time we still hung around in the village with only the odd complaint (at which point we DID actually move on and didn\'t give the people a load of grief for asking)...

My kids don\'t play in the street often, the road isn\'t busy but there\'s too many other kids in the area who are allowed to roam and get upto no good. I\'ve got an English Heritage membership so we take them out to a site every weekend, do the beaches, parks, plessey woods, museums etc... there\'s plenty of free places to visit so other parent\'s have no excuse for ignoring their kids.

[Charlton]

Great minds think together, in English Heritage too, take the grandbairns to castle etc, and let their imaginations run riot, amazing the stories they come up with. Do the farms, Discovery museum in the town one of their favourites plus the Hancock, they loved the dinasaurs. formulae is wetaher good the becah, parks woods. wetaher poor, museums, castles, painting/making at home.

[batt22]

Nelson: \"Order the signal, Hardy.\"

Hardy: \"Aye, sir.\"

Nelson: \"Hold on, that\'s not what I dictated to the signal officer.
What\'s the meaning of this?\"

Hardy: \"Sorry sir?\"

Nelson (reading aloud): \"England expects every person to do his duty,
regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious persuasion or
disability\". \"What gobbledygook is this?\"

Hardy: \"Admiralty policy, I\'m afraid, sir. We\'re an equal
opportunities employer now. We had the devil\'s own job getting
\'England\' past the censors, lest it be considered racist.\"

Nelson: \"Gadzooks, Hardy. Hand me my pipe and tobacco.\"

Hardy: \"Sorry sir. All naval vessels have been designated smoke-free
working environments.\"

Nelson: \"In that case, break open the rum ration. Let us splice the
main brace to steel the men before battle.\"

Hardy: \"The rum ration has been abolished, Admiral. It\'s part of
the Government\'s policy on binge drinking.\"

Nelson: \"Good heavens, Hardy. I suppose we\'d better get on with
it....full speed ahead.\"

Hardy: \"I think you\'ll find that there\'s a 4 knot speed limit in this
stretch of water.\"

Nelson: \"Damn it man! We are on the eve of the greatest sea battle in
history. We must advance with all dispatch. Report from the crow\'s nest
please.\"

Hardy: \"That won\'t be possible, sir.\"

Nelson: \"What?\"

Hardy: \"Health and safety have closed the crow\'s nest, sir. No
harness. And they said that rope ladder doesn\'t meet regulations. They
won\'t let anyone up there until proper scaffolding can be erected.\"

Nelson: \"Then get me the ship\'s carpenter without delay, Hardy.\"

Hardy: \"He\'s busy knocking up a wheelchair access to the fo\'c\'sle,
Admiral.\"

Nelson: \"Wheelchair access? I\'ve never heard anything so absurd.\"

Hardy: \"Health and safety again, sir. We have to provide a
barrier-free environment for the differently abled.\"

Nelson: \"Differently abled? I\'ve only one arm and one eye and I refuse
even to hear mention of the word. I didn\'t rise to the rank of admiral
by playing the disability card.\"

Hardy: \"Actually, sir, you did. The Royal Navy is under- represented
in the areas of visual impairment and limb deficiency.\"

Nelson: \"Whatever next? Give me full sail. The salt spray beckons.\"

Hardy: \"A couple of problems there too, sir. Health and safety won\'t
let the crew up the rigging without hard hats. And they don\'t want
anyone breathing in too much salt - haven\'t you seen the adverts?\"

Nelson: \"I\'ve never heard such infamy. Break out the cannon and tell
the men to stand by to engage the enemy.\"

Hardy: \"The men are a bit worried about shooting at anyone, Admiral.\"

Nelson: \"What? This is mutiny.\"

Hardy: \"It\'s not that, sir. It\'s just that they\'re afraid of being
charged with murder if they actually kill anyone. There are a couple
of legal-aid lawyers on board, watching everyone like hawks.\"

Nelson: \"Then how are we to sink the Frenchies and the Spanish?\"

Hardy: \"Actually, sir, we\'re not.\"

Nelson: \"We\'re not?\"

Hardy: \"No, sir. The Frenchies and the Spanish are our European
partners now. According to the Common Fisheries Policy, we shouldn\'t
even be in this stretch of water. We could get hit with a claim for
compensation.\"

Nelson: \"But you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.\"

Hardy: \"I wouldn\'t let the ship\'s diversity coordinator hear you
saying that sir. You\'ll be up on disciplinary.\"

Nelson: \"You must consider every man an enemy, who speaks ill of your
King.\"

Hardy: \"Not any more, sir. We must be inclusive in this multicultural
age.
Now put on your Kevlar vest; it\'s the rules. It could save your life\"

Nelson: \"Don\'t tell me - health and safety. Whatever happened to rum,
sodomy and the lash?\"

Hardy: As I explained, sir, rum is off the menu! And there\'s a ban on
corporal punishment.\"

Nelson: \"What about sodomy?\"

Hardy: \"I believe that is now legal, sir.\"

Nelson: \"In that case ...kiss me, Hardy\".

lmfao

[willywetegg]

Well what can you say to that, well apart from lmfao of course.

I don\'t think it really matters what your beliefs or thoughts are on the subject, funny is still funny (well I think it is anyway lol).

Jim.

Oops sorry meant to say great post Bat 22

[Edited on 21/7/2005 by willywetegg]

[batt22]

lol hi willy is a good en aye lol hope to start chatting and get to know you guys soon is that ok ?

[alan]

fine by me Batt

[willywetegg]

Post away and enjoy Nesa mate that is what it is here for.
Looking forward to reading your posts and probably fishing with you one day,

Jim.

[batt22]

thanks lads yeah i need to get back fishing again all the best

[bribones]

a bit off subject batt but spot on and although we may think its funny its not far off the mark

5150 AC you take your kids/grandkids ,what would happen if a group of 15 year olds wanted to say go to the hancock or the discovery museum alons without an adult ???

[5150]

Bri, I\'d expect them to behave like anyone else and if they don\'t then I\'d expect the staff to deal with them - at which point they either behave or get thrown out. Same rules apply to them as anyone else. Wouldn\'t expect them to not be allowed in or anything like that though.

Alan - we did the Knights Tournament last Saturday at Belsay, one of my kids has ADHD and he can be a real handful at times but all three of them were pretty well behaved and really enjoyed the day, they\'re still talking about it now! It\'s saddening that we come back from trips out like that and I hear my kids telling others in the street about it, I know full well that those kids don\'t get taken anywhere.

We do the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens aswell as the ones in Newcastle, always popular with my three :-)

[willywetegg]

It wouldn\'t be a problem Bri. Neither are open after nine at night mate.
There are lots of shops that do not allow groups of children in without an adult because of theft. Never heard anyone ever complain about that.
If my 15 year old was coming back through a dodgy area after music lessons and it was after nine at night I think I would be picking them up in my car but maybe the courts thought more about his safety than his parents.

Jim.

[Red5]

Spot on Bat22

[Charlton]

5150 is the drunken knight still falling off his horse. I know what you maen when your own talk to other kids about what they have been doing and they get funny looks. It is amazing when we are on the beach, how many people come down with kids and it is there first time there and they only live a few miles away. Another thing i do with the grandbairns and id di with own kids is if i am doing anything from overhauling an outboatrd to renovating a bit of furniture i let my lot help. Never told them to go away. It is great watching my three year old grandson using a hand drill to drill holes in a sheet of hardboard to re back a chest of draws, he is really good. And all my kids could handle my boat when ythey where ten. The looks my daughter got when balsting round Luce Bay at ten.

Batt22 you had a lucky escape in the jungle mind, bet you have never been on a golf course since, welcome to the board much safer this fishing lark

[batt22]

well spotted mr charlton ya good how you doing alan you never change all the best bat