Good Day from Durham UK

[Derg]

I am really thrilled with this site...it is one of the best I have found. I came across it by using the search term "building a trailer". Whoever was/ is responsible for designing and maintaining this site should be in the award list. The stuff it covers on every level goes well beyond Australia. The way this community shares ideas and more is just a breath of fresh air: exactly waht that guy who invented this internet and wanted..a FREE flow of information. I am a great believer in co-operative ventures...if I was in USA I would be an Amish they have some really great women too. I just love immigrant communities like Oz and USA: down to earth practical people get stuff done.

Anyways ya wanna know about the author. The main characteristic about me is that I am unique. I am not saying I am an ET or a Rock Star I am saying that basically I am kind of dispossessed. I was born in 1954 in a tiny coal mining community in SW Durham England. My dad had liberated my mother from Vienna Austria and took his woman home as a WW2 war trophy. And trophy she was in terms of looks and personality and a hell of a culture shock to the local community. To give you some flavour as to how thing were then...in 1955 I needed to be Christened. C of E said no way..mixed marriage. Catholic church was the same....local Chapel stepped in after a few discreet requests. My dad took up work as "putter" at the local colliery, I attended the local school but fron the word go I had problems.

The school staff thought I had a speach defect beacuse I spoke with a German accent as my mother did. Simple syuff like "de book" or "wit de dog". So I was classed as educationally subnormal. The guy came out from the County HQ and realised that I was on the other side of the scale, thank god he realised


Think I will continue this later...

[wheelinround]

Derg welcome

I will say your story has brought some memories back.

Dipton - Stanley - South Shields all old stomping grounds well as much as a 5 year old can stomp

I can relate to language problems when I came from there to here they could not understand the Queens English (geordie)

So you want to build a decent trailer yell for Yonnee he's tops even better than me

[Ed Reiss]

welcome Derg....you've found a good forum!

[artme]

G'day Derg and welcome to the forums. It's a good place to be.

At least someone thought you were strange when you were young. Joining the members of this place simply confirms it.

[Woodwould]

Velcome Derg!

[Derg]

Hey Hiya thanks for kind welcome.

Anyways in 1963 she decided that this small place in SW Durham called Ramshaw was no place to be..she upped and left to the nearest town..Bishop Auckland. In the same year my dad was diagnosed with MS, we were in a rented flat behind a cafe and I attended a local school. My mother got a job as a nurse and I did well enough at school to pass the 11 plus. My mother thought I was an Einstein..decided I should be a medical doctor.

to be continued...

[Johncs]

. I was born in 1954 .

G'day

I remember the year. That's when my sister was born and mine wasn't the first birthday in the family any more.

Walking/standing around the streets of Perth clutching my little Australian flag, trying to see The Queen.

Did get a glimpse.

Oh, that's the year Kim Hughes was born, just a few days before Sis. Same place.

That was 1954.

[Derg]

Just spent 40 mins continuing this then AOL decided to drop me off line.

[Johncs]

Just spent 40 mins continuing this then AOL decided to drop me off line.

I thought your typer was running slow. I found the thread, read it and replied and still you were sitting on yours.

If you didn't close your browser window, the back button is good.

If you're using Internet Exploder, might I suggest firefox or seamonkey? You could also add in adblock plus so as to block lotsa annoying ads.

[Derg]

The fact is I am hopeless making this machine to what I want it to do. So it is mostly trial and error. As an example today..my son had a run in with a Toyota Hilux in the shop he shares with his pal. It seems Toyota put a fancy anti tamper brass nut on the hubs more akin to a UFO than a truck. His pal is not the greatest fitter and he already had sheared no less than 4 wheel studs off..no wonder they were made out of 4,8 steel...then he was faced with this fancy nut brass nut fixing the disc on... So off I go to ebay for "toyota specialist tools"..NOTHING. Now as far as I am aware the hilux is a well respected vehicle you can fix world wide.....trial and error with me all the way.

[munruben]

Welcome Derg good to have you on board