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Bryn

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  1. On my THIRD mug of caffeine already! Ye gods how to people get up at this time every day???
  2. And CrazySue & I'll be updating the Live Updates website at http://speedwayupdates.proboards103.com/in...00002686&page=1 well with Glenn Russell texting through results to me from the track (thanks Glenn!) so looks as if we're well covered - well let's hope so!
  3. DON'T work too hard spiderweb and thanks for letting us know. Can't believe I'm up at this ungodly hour in the morning!!!
  4. And I always thought you were a Hammers fan!
  5. Just say a huge thankyou to the IOW for training him up for you Steve! Seriously though as soon as I saw him in action for the first time in Australia I had the feeling that here was a young 'un who was going to be something special. The same sort of feeling I got from watching Mark Loram practising at Iwade before he was old enough to race.
  6. Oh My God!!!! He's not got you to agree to streak around the track has he BFD???
  7. Yes he was at one time, he outbid Uncle Alf for the concession rights!
  8. Ah - Alan Basham who, many years ago was a Crayford fan.
  9. Have seen Allan in his riding days at West Ham and nowadays as "the spares man" at King's Lynn but don't ever recall him flogging pics in a track shop Kev! The two regulars behind the counter were Alf Weedon's son Keith (the curly blond haired one with glasses and all the chat!) and his mate "Little" Tom.
  10. BFD DID warn you CS! You should see him in the flesh - lots of it!
  11. Cheeky Cheetah MIGHT have asked if Matty had it (the camera!) dangling as they say Jemma!
  12. 4/5... The ref's box was actually down low - poor old announcers had to go mountain climbing! Remember one night I was doing the centre green mic at the local derby v Rye. Poor old Mudlark (Kelvin Mullarkey) came down on the first bend 2nd / third lap and went into the fence. I wandered over to him once the medics had checked he was ok and he was up on his feet and had dusted himself down. The conversation went like this (leaving out profanities!): ME: Ok Kelvin? ML: Yep but that was stupid, cost me money. Hell it's a long a long walk back to the pits! ME: Sure is! As we approached the startline, Kelvin was beginning to feel the pace I think and the conversation continued: ML: Does that phone work? (pointing to the centre green phone) ME: Yep but only IF you press that button. ML: OK At which point he picked up said phone but DIDN'T press the button and appeared to start ranting and raving, waving his spare arm all over the place etc. Once the crowd spotted him there was uproar! Meanwhile, Lew Stripp was head down in the ref's box dutifully filling in his programme etc totally unaware of what Mudlark was doing and, of course, his phone hadn't rung! Hearing the kerfuffle, Lew looked up at which point the centre green phone was slammed down in dramatic fashion leaving Lew totally bemused! Kelvin turned to me smiled, winked and said, "That got 'em going didn't it?" Sheer entertainment eh? 7: I think Dave Turner, who printed them, used pink once! 9. Sadly Michael is no loinger with us. 11. Sure was!
  13. Unless it's MY memory playing tricks I don't think "the terrible twins" set fire to MY trousers! And as for your query regarding the Kestrel News and Jon Cook - now would I have ever played such a nasty, underhand, dirty, funny trick on Cookie????
  14. Not Guilty on THAT score - the culprit was this Facebook lark that my darling daughter introduced me to very recently - damn addictive!
  15. Looks like this thread might keep me busy for a while! I didn't get involved "behind the scenes" in those days Bob as I was more than fully involved at Crayford but I made a date to be there at eight every Friday night in the season when I wasn't elsewhere with the Kestrels. Sadly poor old Snowy is, I'm told, not very well nowadays and is in a nursing home. "Wild and Wooly" Thommo eh? The ONLY rider I've ever known who could run last places in all his races and STILL be a crowd hero! Christer Lofqvist - first saw him at West Ham I think, cracking little rider indeed. Banger, Plechy, Bo Peep et al - ah the memories!
  16. Keep trying not to hit ANY fences Sedgy - think how your poor old Pop feels when you do!
  17. Oh dear - didn't wake up in time to catch that ruddy 7.24am train from here!
  18. Yes I can't deny it Schumi ''twas moi! But blimey was that little girl chasing Galvini YOU????
  19. Go easy on the Poms BFD - they've still got two more rounds to go!
  20. Jeez Vincent where do I start???? Give me a little time! Just a quickie though but the Kestrel News actually started in the CRAYFORD days on a supporters club coach on the way back from Mildenhall after we'd taken advantage of the bar facilities a tad too much! Someone said wouldn't it be a good idea if we produced a fanzine; muggins here (well and truly under the influence!) said, "I'll write it!" and did so on my portable typewriter - no computers back then! And a certain Dave Turner on the coach happened to be in charge of the printing shop at the old Woolwich Polytechnic - and so it was born!
  21. Oh dear - mind you IF it had been Bundy rather than Vodka, I'd have caught a train to Devon tonight!
  22. Oh heck missus - for want of a better phrase and not wishing to cause the moderators more hassle than they've got already! Anyway, being unable to cadge a lift anywhere (my last resort being cream crackered after umpiring a fiery hockey match this afternoon! ) looks like a train trip BUT will have to catch the 7.24AM train from my local station here in Kent - does that time EXIST on a Sunday? The things we do for the sport! Now where did I put those alarm clocks? And sjl - SNAP!
  23. Spot on Iris and he WAS in tears on the rostrum that night - myself and Dave Pavitt couldn't believe our eyes! SUCH a tough guy - one night when I was at Exeter in the pits, Cribby crashed and dislocated a shoulder. Refused to go to hospital instead walked back to the pits and somehow managed to manipulate his shoulder back in then swung from a piece of scaffold pole holding up the pit roof - went out for his next race!
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