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), failing that can you please put 5 EW on the 4th favourite for me? yeah sure will Dave, Confirmed, so whatever horse was 4th fav at the end of the race is your bet.Frosty wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:21 amHi John,
I am taking the family on holiday this week up to Rarotonga where the internet has about the same effectiveness as post.
Will attempt to make my pick at the end of the week (for what it's worth
cheers Dave
I think that was where Stu came from, i know i laughed at the name and thats how i remembered it,
Hibsgoldandblack wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:05 pmI think that was where Stu came from, i know i laughed at the name and thats how i remembered it,
No i didn't have a clue where it was except it was in Edinburgh, is it close to the Hearts area of the City, ?
Ah, so Stu's a traitor aye,marko69 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:22 pmHibsgoldandblack wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:05 pmI think that was where Stu came from, i know i laughed at the name and thats how i remembered it,
No i didn't have a clue where it was except it was in Edinburgh, is it close to the Hearts area of the City, ?
will be mentioning that if/when i hear from him LOL Their here, Their there, their every f........where,
And he walked off. I had no choice but to go as well as they were one day installs. Couldnt do that myself. marko69 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:43 amItching to tell you the Dumbiedykes story……. The memory has been in my head since you mentioned the place.
Try make this brief. As said, Dumbiedykes is close to Holyrood Palace, BUT, the place is an absolute shitehole. Horrible flats and a real drug problem. Certainly not what you’d expect in the Palace vicinity.
The gas board had “one day heating” contracts all over but you couldnt pick or choose the good ones in the good areas…… you had to start out doing these contracts in the poorer areas. When we started the contracts around 96/97, Dumbiedykes was a big contract. At the time it was only myself and buddy Paul Brown (RIP, brain tumour)
We were discussing stuff with the guys in charge, things like insurance, van insurance in case the vans were screwed etc.
One week before the contract started, someone was murdered in Dumbiedykes. We were like, “Come on guys? Whats going on? We cant concentrate on gas installations when folk are being murdered and vans are being broken into.”
We had a meeting, guy called Ian Davies (who made the mistake of telling people he drove a kids train at weekends……, he was The Fat Controller after that) ….. Ian assured us all that we’d be at the High street side of Dumbiedykes for the entire contract, the “nice side”.
Morning of the contract….. we were on a 2nd floor flat. Walking up the stairs on arriving we passed the first floor flat door which had a mountain of flowers and condolences cards outside it.
Paul was like, “Thats where the guy was murdered! FFS! Is that Fat Controller b*stard taking the p*ss?! Am no working where folk are being murdered, fk this sh*t!”
To this day, no idea at all if Ian had planned that job for us.
“Give them the job near the killers!”
Sounds like a nice quiet area, 
. and that Ian Davies had a wicked sense of humour This real….. or you been watching Midsomer?goldandblack wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:07 pmmarko69 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:43 amItching to tell you the Dumbiedykes story……. The memory has been in my head since you mentioned the place.
Try make this brief. As said, Dumbiedykes is close to Holyrood Palace, BUT, the place is an absolute shitehole. Horrible flats and a real drug problem. Certainly not what you’d expect in the Palace vicinity.
The gas board had “one day heating” contracts all over but you couldnt pick or choose the good ones in the good areas…… you had to start out doing these contracts in the poorer areas. When we started the contracts around 96/97, Dumbiedykes was a big contract. At the time it was only myself and buddy Paul Brown (RIP, brain tumour)
We were discussing stuff with the guys in charge, things like insurance, van insurance in case the vans were screwed etc.
One week before the contract started, someone was murdered in Dumbiedykes. We were like, “Come on guys? Whats going on? We cant concentrate on gas installations when folk are being murdered and vans are being broken into.”
We had a meeting, guy called Ian Davies (who made the mistake of telling people he drove a kids train at weekends……, he was The Fat Controller after that) ….. Ian assured us all that we’d be at the High street side of Dumbiedykes for the entire contract, the “nice side”.
Morning of the contract….. we were on a 2nd floor flat. Walking up the stairs on arriving we passed the first floor flat door which had a mountain of flowers and condolences cards outside it.
Paul was like, “Thats where the guy was murdered! FFS! Is that Fat Controller b*stard taking the p*ss?! Am no working where folk are being murdered, fk this sh*t!”
To this day, no idea at all if Ian had planned that job for us.
“Give them the job near the killers!”
We had a pub in this nice little village on the outskirts of the City
in around 2/3 years we had 4 customers murdered, 3 by customers , another by an unknown.
Another was shot who survived , and another who shot himself dead after murdering one of the 4.
Village Life
could be a bit scary for mere mortals on here to read, 
yes your right mate it looked a good race but that changed,Kerry Blue wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:46 pm£5 EW Divinely. Rubbish race with a big odds on favourite and only 8 runners 6 from the O'Brien clan it's a pity I won't even bother to watch.
that's what i was worried about, i can see it ending up down to 5 or 6. runners, and its on ITV,Kerry Blue wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:18 pmThat's a better race Wolfie just hope the others agree, with the other one a non runner would mean the stake goes on a odds on chance which is not worth doing.