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Title: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Nick on September 08, 2021, 05:00:04 PM
In 1972, when I was 17, some friends and I got a job strawberry picking in the Cotswolds.  We lived in tents at the bottom of the strawberry field. For a month. In the summer.

We had no toilets. We had no means of washing except for a churn of cold water the farmer brought down once a week.

We had no means of washing clothes

We cooked stuff from tins over an open fire.

One night a mad axeman got loose in the village scared2:

We must have stunk  noooo: noooo:

It was a very happy month cloud9:

We went to the 8 Bells in Chipping Campden and drank cloudy cider (6d a pint and then fall over) or the Ebrington Arms

Tomorrow I am meeting one of our number for lunch at the now much posher Ebrington Arms

I wonder if that buxom local lass Dawn Payne is still around? eyes: redface:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Barman on September 08, 2021, 05:17:37 PM
In 1972, when I was 17, some friends and I got a job strawberry picking in the Cotswolds.  We lived in tents at the bottom of the strawberry field. For a month. In the summer.

We had no toilets. We had no means of washing except for a churn of cold water the farmer brought down once a week.

We had no means of washing clothes

We cooked stuff from tins over an open fire.

One night a mad axeman got loose in the village scared2:

We must have stunk  noooo: noooo:

It was a very happy month cloud9:

We went to the 8 Bells in Chipping Campden and drank cloudy cider (6d a pint and then fall over) or the Ebrington Arms

Tomorrow I am meeting one of our number for lunch at the now much posher Ebrington Arms

I wonder if that buxom local lass Dawn Payne is still around? eyes: redface:

How splendid!... I was 12...  whistle:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Nick on September 08, 2021, 05:23:34 PM
A local woman did offer me a bath one night. When I got out I noticed it was black.

Being 17 it did not occur to me to clean it redface:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Barman on September 08, 2021, 05:57:46 PM
A local woman did offer me a bath one night. When I got out I noticed it was black.

Being 17 it did not occur to me to clean it redface:

Popcorn:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Nick on September 08, 2021, 06:36:59 PM
Long enough has passed that she may be safely dead or has forgotten that I porked her daughter in a tent redface:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Just One More on September 08, 2021, 08:33:20 PM
In 1972, when I was 17, some friends and I got a job strawberry picking in the Cotswolds.  We lived in tents at the bottom of the strawberry field. For a month. In the summer.

We had no toilets. We had no means of washing except for a churn of cold water the farmer brought down once a week.

We had no means of washing clothes

We cooked stuff from tins over an open fire.

One night a mad axeman got loose in the village scared2:

We must have stunk  noooo: noooo:

It was a very happy month cloud9:

We went to the 8 Bells in Chipping Campden and drank cloudy cider (6d a pint and then fall over) or the Ebrington Arms

Tomorrow I am meeting one of our number for lunch at the now much posher Ebrington Arms

I wonder if that buxom local lass Dawn Payne is still around? eyes: redface:

Ebrington Arms... I've paid more than a few visits, cracking pub, excellent food  cloud9:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: apc2010 on September 08, 2021, 10:51:21 PM
Long enough has passed that she may be safely dead or has forgotten that I porked her daughter in a tent redface:

A Baby... whistle:   Thumbs:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Barman on September 09, 2021, 06:20:10 AM
Long enough has passed that she may be safely dead or has forgotten that I porked her daughter in a tent redface:

A Baby... whistle:   Thumbs:

 lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Grumpmeister on September 09, 2021, 08:25:03 AM
Long enough has passed that she may be safely dead or has forgotten that I porked her daughter in a tent redface:

Either that or she has had to deal with an accident prone ginger grandson or daughter..  whistle:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Steve on September 09, 2021, 11:20:29 AM
Long enough has passed that she may be safely dead or has forgotten that I porked her daughter in a tent redface:
Maybe the daughter never even noticed as it was so brief
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: apc2010 on September 09, 2021, 11:50:02 AM
Can't beat the country air and waking up at the crack of dawn ... Thumbs:
Title: Re: Teenage adventures revisited
Post by: Nick on September 09, 2021, 07:44:31 PM
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