59to60 pt17

Hello and welcome to part 17 of my blog and if you happen to be reading this I hope your enjoying it and even if your not then well stick by it anyway. So was back at work yesterday and unfortunately my arm had a reaction to Sunday’s cycle and doing bit of garden was sore most of the day but on good side it has settled down again so decided to just do some light stuff today, went out for breakfast then some messages, back home and out to do bit in the garden just some light work. Helen back for wee kip and weather is ok so need to get out for while.

Teenage years were bit of a blur truthfully i remember some days things like having party’s at the wknd at my sisters just a load of us dancing to heavy metal and getting drunk and sometimes to much drink and we would have a few square goes 😂 but mainly was just a bit of a riot and mainly good fun with not much sleep involved but plenty of other things mmmm good days and maybe during the blog i shall go into it a bit more mmmm maybe.

As you can see was fun and i was going out with the girl in white top Christine she was one tough cookie but she was fun and i think she has a lot of kids not seen her in a long long time but i hope she is well. My sister Margret she was cool but i think at times we took a loan of her as it always seemed to be her house. Apart from parties we used to just hang out around Kirkton just mucking about really just did not seem to have a care in the world and really it wasn’t until i got my first job i thought man this could have been all different. Growing up when i left school well for first nearly three years i basically never did much i depend on dole money and what mum would give me, but in the summer we would go to the berries to make a bit extra cash, it would be an early start as you wanted to get a bus that would come and pick the berry pickers up the bust was always an old wreck but boy it was great getting on them if you were on time, it normally be there for 7ish or maybe 8 am no sure and it would take you out of town to Blairgowrie or other parts of  Tayside and Angus you would leave armed with sandwiches and coke or flask oh tea and you’d get to berries and pick all day until around 4is when boy would let out a loud shout of BERRY UP BERRY UP ha ha, i was able to make about a tenner sometimes but you had the real nabblers who would probably make near double that and my brother Chris well he was one of them he also did the tatie but an fook that it looked to much like hard work 😓 he used to come home and went straight to kip totally beat, back to the berries it was fun and sometimes a berry fight would start bloody poor farmer watching ah his money getting chucked at each other bloody mental. But it always seemed to be sunny. So you would fill a bucket or a punnet and take them to get weighed it would be a crate of berries or a black bucket and you would be payed, if you had a bucket you were able to squash them down and and put more in so it weighed more as the heavier it was the more money mmmm i wont tell you what some people used to do in there buckets though 😂 and that what you did for the day, but i used to love the journey home bus full of great people ah smelling oh berries having a good laugh some sleeping as well but good honest people real down to earth most of them, and when got home mum used to let us keep our money as she would say we worked for it man why did the penny no drop for me during these years of being unemployed but I’m sure mum knew it would eventually and i say again what a woman she was.

                                                       Picking strawberries and raspberries 

So onto the rest of the day and not much to say, new phone arrived iPhone 12mini so did bit of garden and now about away to set up phone and chill the tea time again.

                                                                             16/07/21

So Friday and finally few days off i am now sitting in back garden with a cold glass of wine trying to do this blog fore the battery runs out as i only have 4% left. Been an ok day had 11miles on bike after breakfast and at the moment my arm seems fine so tomorrow’s planned 40miles looks good to go ahead. Just a circuit today again on the mtb and its a nice sunny day but very warm at times.

As you can see by the pictures it was a really nice day and I hope for the same tomorrow fingers crossed . We went out when I got back bought a book and more vinyl this time pink floyds wish you were here another great find, then onto farm to get eggs strawberries, raspberries then for a coffee and cake and big jar of blossom Honey which I usually put in a cup of tea this very nice. Well will stop here as doing this on my phone and it’s bit tricky. Will add more tomorrow. 

                                                                              17/07/21

So just back from 37 miles cycle and what a day only thing that hampered me was there was a strong wind and by the end it had become really difficult i was hoping to extend it to 45 or more but that wind took it out of me and it was roasting as well so a mixtures of both and my 11miles yesterday think it was just bit to much for just getting back into longer miles but it was a great day in the saddle i even managed to stop for a scone and a coffee at the cornkist which was needed and helped as i went on also some nice photos.

Was the Bianchi today a nice smooth ride mmm well sometimes as some roads you have to watch out for, seen a few cyclists out and was good as most said hi and even when i stopped to take an photo couple asked if all was ok so that was good as i would do the same, i feel like when i have my shower its going to be messy as i had a lot of sunscreen on so the dust will be stuck to me 😂 yuk.

Well I’m now in relax mode for wee while thinking about memories of growing up i have concentrated on Kirkton of course as that is where a big chunk of my teenage life was thinking of what used to happen in these days one memory i have at the moment was the rag and bone man who used to come he would be pulling a cart or his horse would and he would have a trumpet he would blow and shout out RAG AND BONE 😂 so if you had any old clothes or household stuff you would run out with it to give to him and from what i remember you got a ballon a bloody ballon I’m sure my mum hid all her good clothes but I’m sure we still managed to get some stuff to take out to him, i think there may have been other things he gave you but i can only remember getting a ballon and he was always dressed in rags as well 😂 

                                                                           Rag&bone

Amazing when you tell others about this and they looked shocked as you probably would not get anything like this these days as they all go to charity shops for us to go in and buy, had to copy the photo above just to give an idea of how it worked but as you can see he has balloons 🎈 we used to have someone who sold whelks as well these were like snails and tasted like boogies ha ha and thing is i used to like them and go to the beach and collect them to boil in salt water but will tell you about that later.

Helen just back after bite to eat with her friend and I’m sitting listening to the football no alcohol involved at the moment but i may have a glass of red tonight. 

                                                                                18/07/21

Good morning a cloudier start today but it feel just as warm as I’m sitting doing this and can begin to feel myself warm up, today will be a garden and shopping day and if time allows maybe a sit in the garden as well to do a bit mor of this blog. Last night we had a great sunset over the sidlaws here are a couple of photos.

Back home and settle for a while i still feel bit weary after yesterday but think it was just the heat and it took a bit more out of me than i first thought, i had enough sun screen on but face does feel a bit hot 🥵 and when finished the garden i was soaked with sweat so i have been drinking a lot of water today. Well as i come to the end of another weeks blog i have to say that this has been a massive help to me remembering things from when i was young and i will continue but feel i should mix it up a bit in the next weeks blog so to finish this wee story about end of school disco 🕺 i want to say 1978 and it was the first time i was introduced to punk music, we all brought our own music for the DJ i took my kiss alive album but a guy i know called Frank brought never mind the bolloks this is the sex pistols, I remember meeting some guys before i went in and we had couple of tins of beer and when your 15 the excitement took you over, the music was loud and all the girls from classes were all dressed up one in particular i really fancied looked great but unfortunately i don’t think she thought the same as it was near Christmas and some of the guys had mistletoe and yes i think you can guess the next bit but i did get a hug from her and it did make my night (fkn sad i know) i have saw her recently and she always speaks and remembers me well. But the thing i do remember most now i was still getting into my music the DJ put on pretty vacant by sex pistols and place went crazy we all just flooded the floor and started poogoing jumping up and down and bumping each another around and I remember thinking wow this is new.

I was never a real punk i was mor of a metal head but this made me get into other kind of music like Blondie, the stranglers also bands such as Boomtown Rats and the Police but still my main music was heavy metal. The disco i think finished around 10 ands i remember leaving i never looked back at my school but I remember the next day when i woken up thinking well that’s that over with and what’s next well as i have said before the first three years i really just never did much at all which when i think back i wonder why or how things may have been different if i had got a job straight away but i never and well that’s just the way it is or was.

So another weeks blog comes to an end back to work tomorrow but as always will start next weeks asap, i am now sitting enjoying a cold cider just the one though so on that note i will finish this here.

Thanks again.