Page 152 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

He explained it like this.

John “We’ve been held up.”
Ruth,”held up where?”
John, “In Lancashire.”
You can imagine Ruth’s tone, “Lancashire!!” she choked” “Where are you now?”

John, “Well, somewhere south of Ferrybridge on the A1.”
John was not one to let it all out at once.

Ruth, “What are doing on the A1?”
John, “Well Keith is driving a lorry!”
Ruth, “A Lorry? What on earth is he driving a lorry for?”
John, “Well, we’ve bought it.”

You can imagine the explosion at the other end.
“What do you want a lorry for?” or words to that effect followed.
John, kindly finished with something like, “Keith will explain when we get home,”
Before the phone at the other end was dropped loudly!

The explanation was relatively easy after I had the rest of the journey to think about the
“problem”.
“Well you see,” it went; “John and Terena………….. and finished with something about the
Land rover wrecking the express train and us not wanting to do something similar!

All seems to have ended well so far, as in March, Novartis at Immingham approached us
to do a display at their summer celebrations in July and sent us a cheque for £400 in
advance!

In fact it has been a further good thing as we have been to three displays using the lorry
and trailer and even managed to dislocate my shoulder at one in the process!
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First Picture of THE lorry and trailer and horses is at Novartis later in the year!

ANOTHER TIME.......second picture….............................doing the job we really bought it
for!