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This is the end of the 1960’s and the next stage is when
Ruth and I quite unexpectedly, manage to buy a beautiful
house in the country.

“IT’S A RUM LIFE” Book Three
Ivy House 1970 to 1984

All the problems that go with the Westmoreland Slate roof
blowing off in the first winter, coping with the new threat,
“Inflation” and how ECYB is recreated and eventually becomes
a lorry “fleet” to take us forward into the 1980’s.

There are over 40 individual stories of “incidents”, life and
work in the small village community of New Bolingbroke.
Some very amusing, some deadly serious.

Horses come into our lives for the first time, a Flower
festival brightens up the community life. I take my HGV driving
test... eventually and manage to stop a police patrol car once
again on the seven mile straight, but this time by creating my
own fog blanket.

If you vaguely like Book Two you will be sure to like
Book Three. If you really liked Book Two, Book three will
be a revelation!

Two stories from Book Three:

THE AUGER PROBLEM
from 1974
My tyre collection business had been running for a few
months alongside my work for Firestone. Following a few
raised eyebrows and a long talk to Henry Offiler my then boss,
I eventually left the company, but now the new business
needed a boost. It was not yet paying sufficiently to live on and

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