STEVES MAMS PIE
December 1998 Issue 34IN HONOUR OF STEVE’S MAM’S PIE
My favourite part of Wednesday nights is downing my first pint of Lambtons after doing the club session. My second favourite part is getting offered some of Steve Ramsden’s Mam’s pie - after all most of us run on an empty stomach on a Wednesday night and by 9.00 p.m. I’m often thinking of turning to cannabolism. So on behalf of us all, please thank your Mam again for all her hard work. P.S. That also goes for the veggie weidos as well !!
WATTS (no, not Peter) IN A NAME
Dicka approached me the other day (not thankfully from behind) and remarked ‘ What the hells got into people at the moment - they are all changing names’ ..........and do you know he’s correct I’ll let Dicka do the explaining ... .............
Watts his name?
Has anyone seen Lesley Haldane recently? She popped off to have a bairn a few weeks ago and was
mysteriously replaced by look-a-like Lesley Jackson. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened.
Shiela Richards vanished without trace last year and some blonde lass called Shiela Alcock turned up in her
place. I can understand Lesley changing her name, after all, Haldane sounds like some type of fire
extinguisher. But to change from Richards to Alcock is just silly (at least for a lass!). Then there's our
former Red Indian brave, expelled from his tribe when the horses he'd ordered didn't turn up until AFTER
the battle (Mickey Crow's Ear). Just who is going to be next? Linda Sunnyspells (nee Raine) or perhaps
Jacquie Stadium-of-light (formerly a Pitt). There are a few obvious candidates for name changes in the club
such as Wilson McKnight, just why has he got two second names? One or two of the Dixon's could change
'cos the name is common as muck around here. Finally, there's Peter Watts and Tony Howe, who have the
most confusing names, but we can't let Tony choose the new one's or we'll end up with Peter Who and Tony
Where! What a Mullarkey!
Now since Dicka wrote this article your favourite and mine Tony Howe has been up to his usual tricks as well. You see - Tony, always has and always will called Steve Hobday - Steve Hoppaday and now the other week he called Dicka - Kippa !!! So this got me thinking ...... what really is in a name ? I’ll let the computer define that one because I thought it was about time that I revealed what the computer’s SPELLCHECKER thoughts about your surnames. You see everytime I write one of these newsletters the spellchecker throws up the same queries and if you ask it will give you some alternative suggestions just in case you have spelled the word wrong ! So turn over to see the computer’s versions of some of the club members surnames.
Luxembourg
The Strollers are seen here practising before the Luxembourg half marathon - someone had told them that it was a 495 lap course !!!!!!
YOUR SPELLCHECK NAMES
Take a look down this list - you will see that the computer has an uncanny knack of being able to accurately describe everyone in great detail !!Warnaby - wearable, wallaby
Hobday - hotbed, hooray, obey
Woodward - woodworm, disown
Turnbull - turbulent, turnabout
Blair - bleary, blah, blab
Routledge - rusted, rustled
Clazey - clammy, classy, sleazy, slave
Sampson - shapes, scampi, shames
Hitchcock - hitchike
Garrington - jarringly
Davison - damson, dandilion
Felce - feeler, feline, fence
Colgin - collie, cologne
Dawn (Elliot) - legit, legist
Quinn - quit
BIRTHDAYS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:Bruce Davison - 55 yrs - 8th December
Linda Raine - 35 yrs on 10th December (and now a vet !!)
Peter Watts - 42 yrs on 3rd December
Andrew Rae - 49 yrs on 11th December
SPOTLIGHT ON ALLAN ( MAC ) ROBERTSON
Well, its young Allan no more as Allan recently turned from a sprightly 39 year old to a dirty old scotch git of 40 !!!I thought therefore that it was more than appropriate to ask Allan some personal questions before his memory and hearing fails him.
Born Edinburgh, 7th December 1958
Employment - Allan works at the ‘Prescription Pricing Authority’ in Newcastle - so if you want any cheap cannabis you now know who you need to see !
First girlfriend - a Glasweigian lassie called Alison. He met her when he was 15 on a caravan holiday whilst emptying the contents of his chemical toilet - apparently it was love at first shite.
Did you get your end away with Alison ? - No !!
First car - Ford Escort Mk 1
First record bought - a Rod Stewart L.P. of some sort
How did you meet your wife - in Benidorm it was a holiday romance in 1979 !!
Did you get your end away this time then ? - No (poor Allan - he seems to have a bit of a problem in this department)
Your favourite race - The Great North Run
Most embarassing moment - “ well I will admit to once being a ballroom dancer between the age of 6 to 11. I once reached the Semi - finals of the Scottish Championships” (that will account for Allan’s sequinned blouse he wears on a Wednesday night !
Favorite running session - Ryhope bank
Aim for 1999 - still to do a half marathon in under 1 hour 30 mins or 10k in under 40 mins
How did you get to join the Strollers - I saw an advert in the local paper which I think Bob Blair put in.
ODDS AND SODS
I see the club has it’s very first millionaire and self made at that - not a lottery winner I hasten to add. For Mark Feeley, teaching in Turkey has become a Turkish Lira millionaire in a little over four months or something like that.
A warm welcome back to the club to Bob Blair from his working holiday in the U.S.A.
Sad news on the departure front however, as Sonya or Von Gorgeous as John Wilson likes to call her has to return back to Germany in February ‘99.
Run back home