Hi all, will there be a 2023 40yr Newcastle convention? I just missed the 30yr one & it's a canny hike for me from Australia. Further than a leisure centre building site in Washington. 2023 isn't too far away & in these strange times it would be great to have something to look forward to. Apologies ...

Not visited the site for a few years, I think I overdosed on AWP nostalgia. Happy to be back, have trowel will travel. All the best to everyone

Totally agree with you Lou, I went into a shop last year, it was unbelievable, I actually felt sick. If that's what it means to be part of civilised society I'll sit on my verandah and talk to my chickens thank-you!

I could imagine what Oz would say about this pokemon shite.....

I could have voted, they hassled me to vote. But I live in Australia and I didn't think it right that someone who no longer lives in the UK should be able to vote. That decision belongs to the people who live there.

Bugger got the dementia creeping up on me already

Turn doon the bloody mixer man, I canna hear meself type

AC/DC, Styx, Madness and Kim Wilde's alright and her records aren't too bad either

Don't strangle me if this has been asked before. Just wondering who and when in the AWP series actually says 'auf wiedersehen pet'? Dennis said it to a nurse when Hedley is in the hospital springs to mind. Must be heaps of others. Seems an obvious question for you jammy arabs.

Beyond jealous, only Newcastle near me is north of Sydney

Lee, how about giving Barry a 'Oz quote tee' Would be a canny gesture like

Looks like a 1977 Scania Metropolitan :) Tyne and Wear PTE were second largest operator of Metropolitans, building up 150 of them between 1975 to 1977. By the mid-1980s most of the Tyne & Wear Metropolitan's were withdrawn although a handful did pass to the new arms-length private company Busways Tr...

Canna believe it man. The boilers are hot to trot for the auld silver foxes n here's me just bought 5 gallons of just for men.

How about the 'howay kettle' scene Lee man. On second thoughts divn't bother, a kettle takes longer than 6.5 sec to boil, especially in Dusseldorf in winter.

Wonder if he gets to say 'howay kettle'