The Times They are a Changing

Balcarres Estate.

My Mother Got A Job At Balcarres House as a Cleaner. Lord and Lady Balcarres Were Great people and my mother got on Well with Them.

Every year in February the Grouse Shooting Season began and my father and us went there and it was called "Beating" . We would go first through the woods and beat the trees with a stick then the pheasants would fly up and go in the direction of the shooters. Which the lords Friends would shoot the pheasants in the Air, and Not on the ground as we would be in line of fire. Great time that was.

It was about this time i was diagnosed with TB (Tuberulocis) Me and my Mother Had it and had to go to Cameron Hospital To get treated for it. I was there for six months and every morning at 10 am the ward sister would come with a rubber tube and kidney dish. She would stick the rubber tube down my throat in to my lung on each side and i had to vomit up the gunge that came out of my lungs...yeeukk. horrible times lol. after that was done i got a giant needle in my hip which stung like hell ahhhhhhhh!!!!  and to top it all off The Medicine yukkkkk.  A whole half pint of this Strawberry or lime Drink that tasted like Salt Water. (Still remember its name "Pecina "D") My Mother and me recovered from it and what a time im my life that was lol.

Waid Academy

That's the Secondary School i Went to.

I left School When I Was 14 years old And Got my First Job as a Mechanic Apprenticeship. The Garage was Called Summers Garage Right across from the entrance to Waid Academy School.

I Only Lasted About 6 months in that Job..The Day I was Fired Ill tell you How...One Morning i came into work and the garage doors were open and sitting right in front was a Morris Minor Like This One...

The Bonnet was up and the key was still in the dashboard ...so I Started the car up and heard this awful l crash bang wallop!. So i turned the key to off and jumped out the car and what did i find on the floor next to the front wheel?... bits of metal from the engine. someone had taken the Sump off and the Bottom Connecting rods ends from the pistons and NEVER TOLD MEEEEEE! I was panicking

panic1

/ˈpanɪk/

verb

gerund or present participle: panicking

feel or cause to feel panic.

"the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit"

Similar:

be alarmed

be scared

be nervous

be afraid

overreact

become panic-stricken

take fright

be filled with fear

be terrified

be agitated

be hysterical

lose one's nerve

be perturbed

get overwrought

get worked up

go/fall to pieces

lose control

fall apart

flap

get in a flap

lose one's cool

get the jitters

get into a tizzy/tizz

freak

freak out

get in a stew

get the willies

get the wind up

go into a (flat) spin

have kittens

lose one's bottle

throw a wobbly

have an attack of the wobblies

frighten

alarm

scare

unnerve

fill with panic

agitate

horrify

terrify

throw into a tizzy/tizz

spook

put the wind up

Opposite:

relax

drive someone through panic into (hasty action).

"we are not going to be panicked into a decision"

I Ran ! lol

I came Back after my panic attack and found the owner and Mr Summers (The Boss) Looking at the Car. The Boss Said " What Happened" Im gone for 10 mins and i arrive back with the owner of the car to tell him what ive to fix his car!.. i tried to explain to the boss what i did.. I was trying to move the car out of the way so i could get an issetta Bubble car ito the garage to work on it as instructed by you yesterday, I did'nt know you had the car sump off and the connecting rod end off as well. There was no sign saying "Don't Start" and the Battery Was Still Connected! Anyways i tried explaining to him what happened but all i got was a hand on the scruff of my neck and a boot up the Ass all the way out of the garage.. He was swearing like a trooper and shouting "Its gonna cost me a fortune on a new Engine Swearing Shouting Your Fired! Another boot up the Ass i got Then at last he let go off me and i said before he left to go back up the street to the garage "Can i get my Piece bag Back! I left it in the Garage" all I got Back was "F*^K O&F" lol i can laugh now but at the time.....

Isetta Bubble car

Interior

BMW's Isetta has one door --- and it's in the front! The entire front end of the car opens to allow folks in and out; the steering mechanism is specially-designed to handle what appears to be mis-use, but it holds together very well and the entire car needs very little regular maintenance. Isetta was born into a post-WW II world where small, inexpensive, efficient and reliable were all critically-important traits, and cars like the Isetta met those goals in novel ways, many of which appear to us today to be "fun" ways. These cars, known generically as "bubble cars", added a much-needed and highly-appreciated note of levity to a very tough post-war world.

And A Song That Reminds me to this day i heard on   the Garage Radio The Day I Was Sacked Was This....

To Be Continued