paulr
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Post by paulr on Jun 8, 2008 19:33:27 GMT
Hi!
I was born in Preston way back in 1954 and my Father took me to my first match at Plainmoor in 1963, the year of the snow! I watched United on and off over the years with a gap during the late 60’s and early 70’s when I went away to college on deepest Dartmoor (not at Princetown)! I think my earliest real memories though are standing on the uncovered concrete terraces on the Popside watching the Sandercott brothers, Clint Bolton and my favourite all time player one Ian Twichen. He was never going to set the world on fire but he was a character much like Kevin Hill.
I moved away from Devon in the mid 70’s to Somerset and have travelled up and down to Torquay ever since. That was hard work when the motorway finished at Wellington!
Great…feel really ancient now!
Back to today, I am looking forward to next season having witnessed the rebirth of Torquay United Football Club over the last twelve months. What a turn around! Despite the heartbreak of the last two matches, and that in essence was all it was, I thoroughly enjoyed the season.
I would also like to thank Dave for this new forum. I enjoy reading other fans views and keeping in touch with all things United without feeling the need to post every two minutes, just for the sake of it!
Keep up the good work Dave. Regards to one and all.
PaulR Taunton.
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jun 8, 2008 19:36:50 GMT
Hi and a warm welcome Paul great to have you here, look forward to reading your posts
Dave R
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Post by Dave on Jun 8, 2008 19:46:31 GMT
In Taunton twice a week Paul, spiller& Webber, R. m Tools, Eagle Plant, Bradfords and One more ** fastners (menory block) are all customers of mine.
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Post by paulr on Jun 8, 2008 21:33:14 GMT
There was a time when Torquay appeared to be the feeder club for Taunton Town...Michael loram, Russell Musker,Ellis laight and a few others whose names escape me for the moment, or at least until I finish typing! With Summer traffic coming I expect your running times on the M5 will increase dramatically! Taunton traffic can often rival the Newton Road!
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Post by Dave on Jun 8, 2008 21:41:08 GMT
There was a time when Torquay appeared to be the feeder club for Taunton Town...Michael loram, Russell Musker,Ellis laight and a few others whose names escape me for the moment, or at least until I finish typing! With Summer traffic coming I expect your running times on the M5 will increase dramatically! Taunton traffic can often rival the Newton Road! On Mondays and Thursdays I leave Newton at 6am (Paignton 5.40am) and I have 5 or 6 calls in each town. First call Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Crewkerne,Chard, Weston Super Mare, Bridgewater, Taunton, Wiverliscombe,Culumpton, then as I have such a good boy, back to Newton and then home to Paignton, wears you out just thinking about it. |
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Post by merse on Jun 9, 2008 2:56:31 GMT
................. and then home to Paignton, wears you out just thinking about it.  Life's like that for me too Dave. I habitually get up at 3am and have done so for many years now on a working day. Trouble is the "body clock" inside me also wakes me up at that time when I am not working, and after two or three hours of succumbing to back ache I'm usually out of bed on those mornings too at 6am. I'm a real slow coach in the early hours and like to poke about making a hot drink, shower and catch up with the night's news on the internet. Because I have to take Friday out of my working schedule this week to travel to a funeral in the Midlands, I made myself available for work yesterday and my first job was to take a guy from a London hotel to Gatwick - a guy who's travelling schedule dwarfs ours by a long way! Tour de France and Giro d'Italia rider Mark Cavendish was "popping home" to the Isle of Man for a day before taking off for his team base in Italy to prepare for this year's TdeF,and then the Beijing Olympics where he rides the Madison event. The night before he had taken part in the City of London Criterium - tearing around the streets of Smithfield Market in front of an excited and partying crowd. A typical pro' cyclist, he just travels with a small piece of hand luggage whilst his bikes and other equipment is all looked after by his team and is always (hopefully) there to meet him at his next destination. Reminds me of myself over a quarter of a century ago when I kept different items of clothing in Paris, London, Birmingham and Newton Abbot and used to travel the same way between working engagements.............one grip bag and that's it. ;D Like you, I am on the road for a living; but once my first pre-booked jobs are done I never know where the next one will take me, what time I will finish for sure; but being self employed I do retain the right to instantly "log off" once an individual job is complete or at least insist on only accepting one that will take me "in the direction" of home! |
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Post by Dave on Jun 9, 2008 17:24:50 GMT
Body clocks, well they rule your life Merse. 16 years on the milk starting at 3am, but I loved it out there for hours alone while the rest slept. What a change then 10 years on the entertainment circuit, often not getting home from a show until 3am. Now for the last five years in this job, back to early mornings(5.45am) but what is great is the other staff don't start until 8.45am. By then I'm miles away, I don't see or hear from any one from my company, until I get back and then I spend about 10 Min's with them. Left alone all day to get on with my job, when things are on your mind, then maybe not so good as too much time to think, but then I planned this forum out there on the road.  |
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Post by merse on Jun 9, 2008 18:41:30 GMT
16 years on the milk starting at 3am, but I loved it out there for hours alone while the rest slept. what is great is the other staff don't start until 8.45am. By then I'm miles away, I don't see or hear from any one from my company, until I get back and then I spend about 10 Min's with them. In my latter years on the buses, that's exactly how it was for me Dave. I had the seniority to claim a fixed rota job on a 24/7 route which allowed me to let myself in every morning, collect my vehicle and work out on the road from as early as 3.30 and finish around midday. Monday to Friday, no weekends, no management to get in my face - just one of a select band of 6 guys who could all do the job with our eyes shut. Then we became victim to the new brand of "youth management" who wouldn't know a bus if it came up and rammed them up the bum, they wanted to be in our faces all the time and expected us on the "Ghost Shift" to come in and see them in our own time................it was time to move on and I took retirement from the pension scheme and started working for myself. The best thing I ever did, now I work for an intelligent boss (me!) as part of a blue riband logistics network, when I want for as long as I want. You can't beat being left alone to get on with your job! |
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Life's like that for me too Dave.