Land-line phone

[Oldtimeram]

Does anybody still use one?

We have one, but it hardly ever rings and when it does its 9 times out of 10 a junk call from someone that cannot speak English.

I don't know why I don't just have it taken out really?

[barrie_burn]

They certainly do.

My 93 year old Mum totally relies on it.We bought her a basic mobile a few years ago and I doubt she ever made a call on it.

I get a lot of phone calls myself due to my activities in bowls but they all know that if they want to speak to me it has to be on my landline.I got totally fed up with mobiles and I rarely carry one.Think my age may have something to do with it.

[alfinyalcabo]

Yes,I still have a landline as the mobile phone signal where I live is awful..

[sinkov]

Yes,I still have a landline as the mobile phone signal where I live is awful..

Same here Alfie, if I stand in the front window the mobile might work, from the back of the house it probably won't. Besides with my BT landline and internet package I get BTSport for a fiver a month, wall to wall football for next to nowt.

[Oldtimeram]

They certainly do.

My 93 year old Mum totally relies on it.We bought her a basic mobile a few years ago and I doubt she ever made a call on it.

I get a lot of phone calls myself due to my activities in bowls but they all know that if they want to speak to me it has to be on my landline.I got totally fed up with mobiles and I rarely carry one.Think my age may have something to do with it.

I used to play a lot of bowls at one time. I remember beating a guy called Brian Duncan once in a tournament when everyone said I would get hammered as he was the bees knees at the time in the 1980s

[alfinyalcabo]

I used to play a lot of bowls at one time. I remember beating a guy called Brian Duncan once in a tournament when everyone said I would get hammered as he was the bees knees at the time in the 1980s

Brian Duncan was one of the best bowlers around Rammy,he won the prestigious Waterloo cup in Blackpool four times.. You must have been a blody good bowler..

[sinkov]

I remember beating a guy called Brian Duncan once in a tournament

Best manager Chesterfield ever had.

[Oldtimeram]

Brian Duncan was one of the best bowlers around Rammy,he won the prestigious Waterloo cup in Blackpool four times.. You must have been a blody good bowler..

I think I just got lucky in the day. I remember I got him on a short mark down the side and being a left hander may have fooled him. More likely I was playing out if my skin and he was having an off day.
Won a few local tournaments in the Derby area but I was not good enough to win the Waterloo or any other big trophy

[barrie_burn]

Good win against Brian Duncan.

I started playing in Rammy park after my Dad retired.He was one of the founder members of the Club down there and I used to join him when we were up there visiting.I enjoyed it so I joined a Club down here in Cardiff in 1988.I had a bit of a shock when I first went there as I thought "This isn't Crown Green" but I am now heavily involved in the flat Green game.

Incidentally a couple of years ago someone walked into our Club and expressed an interest in joining as he was now working in the area.It turned out that he was the captain of the Welsh Crown Green team but played his Club bowls in Knutsford and he still does.
He is a left hander and says that sometimes gives him an advantage.Good prize money in Crown Green Roger tells me that he has won about £55000 over the years.

[Oldtimeram]

He probably played at Knutsford Conservative Club. I used to play flat green in the winter in a winter indoor league and played a few times outdoors but I find it's not as good as crown green in my opinion