Keith Sanders the Storyman Podcast
All the stories are taken from the "It's a Rum Life" series of books created by Keith Sanders.Every incident is real and factual beginning in the early 1950's and still continuing in 2020 with "It's a Rum Life in France".Many are available as individual free audio stories and all compiled into complete books available to download FREE OF CHARGE from our website at www.it'sarumlife.com
Episodes
226 episodes
The final Wonderbun story. This time the dustcart was victorious.
It was another trip to the Ford Motor Company, but it was not so funny this time.A moments inattention..........
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"WE WERE USING MORE OF THIS DRUG THAN THE HUGE LOCAL GENERAL HOSPITAL"
The title of this story in our books is "How Many Tablets," but I now prefer the title above!This is another Goliath and Bonnie story from Lincolnshire's Northcote Heavy Horse Centre in the 1990s.You can access Goliath's own online pict...
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"GOLIATH CALLS OUT THE SKEGNESS FIRE BRIGADE"
Another Goliath and Bonnie story from Lincolnshire's Northcote Heavy Horse Centre in the 1990s.Drama and stress on a cold wet night.You can download Goliath's own online picture storybook from our bookcase site at:
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HOW DID WE GET INVOLVED WITH CANADA'S "NORTH WEST PASSAGE" a story from 1986.
It came about in 1986 and we were living close to Spilsby in Lincolnshire.Sir John Franklin, Spilsby’s most famous “son” was born there in 1786 and subsequently lost his life together with the rest of his crew and two ships, undertaking ...
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A VERY UNUSUAL OPTHALMOLOGIST. Its a Rum Life In France, 2021.
Back to that interview with my lady surgeon who happened to say, “well the only little problem you might have with the new lenses is that your extreme peripheral vision might be affected when driving in the dark.” “Oh that’s o...
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"IF YOU TOUCH A HORSE, A DOG OR EVEN A CAT IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, DO NOT COME BACK HERE!"
A story from the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre in about 2005.On a wet and windy night one of the horses managed to dislocate my right shoulder.Unfortunately, it was the same shoulder that I had broken when falling over "that" d...
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R.M.S. QUEEN MARY IN JEOPARDY Another Spike Jones story from Boston Grammar School in 1958.
This is a re write of the story "Incident with Queen Mary."Just a few changes. It involves a contingent of CCF Naval Section Cadets let loose on HMS Vanguard while in Portsmouth Harbour.
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WARP SPEED AT HARROGATE BUS STATION Harrogate, Yorkshire 1950
This is a story about a Bus Journey, well several bus journeys really.A story of "Financial aspirations" of a 6 year old in 1950.The scene is Harrogate, Yorkshire, in the North of England. A very smart and affluent town with more Ro...
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"SPIKE TOOK US TO SEA IN A BATHTUB WITH WHEELS." A story from the Lincolnshire Coast in 1958
We were going into all this. Perhaps it was good that these machines had wheels, that would help when we touched the sand way out at sea. You will have to imagine that you are taking a journey into rough offshore seas with breaki...
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"I STOPPED YOUR CAR BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING FOR THE DRIVER!"
Letter from France continued....MILOU'S FIRST BRUSH WITH THE LAW.We were driving a car originally registered in the Uk but that we had since imported into Franceand was now French registered! Driving carefully on ente...
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CHRISTMAS CAN BE A SAD TIME TOO... Reflections on Christmas 1991.
One of our first losses around Christmas was our very first Shire Horse Ebony.He retired from Young and Cos Brewery in 1988 and came back to live with us in Lincolnshire.He helped us with the opening of the Northcote Heavy Horse Cent...
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LETTER FROM FRANCE "TODAY I STOPPED THE TRAINS ON THE MAIN LINE"
A letter from France 1st October 2022.TODAY I MANAGED TO STOP THE TRAINS ON THE MAIN LINE!Not intentionally, well not really, but you see the local crossing barriers were stuck.I had set out on my normal dog exercis...
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THURSDAY WAS MY DAY FOR STAMFORD A story from Ivy House New Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire in 1971.
This particular day, I had just pulled in to the side of the road close to the depot entrance, when there was an almighty bang and the front of the roof of the tyre retail premises was lifted off the brick cladding over the main front doors.
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WHAT INTERNATIONAL "TWINNING" IS ALL ABOUT A story from Northcote in about 1987
The Official launch of the twinning with Boston and Fresnay was a big event. Spilsby took a local community Brass Band and their were representatives from local football teams, young farmers clubs and other associations.The a...
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DVLA HEART CHECK UP IN LEICESTER A story from Northcote in 2008
The local surgery has five partners. I have tried almost all of them and my current doctor is brusque and always very much to the point.I like his straight forward “no nonsense” approach, but many do not.He began,” after everythin...
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SIERRA COSWORTH EXPERIENCE (Rewrite) A story from Northcote in 1987
If I remember, I won and would have liked nothing better than to drive with John thorough the French Countryside for four days or so as fast as we could go, with safety.However, and it was a big however.It was only two and a half ...
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AN ANGEL APPEARED IN THE GUISE OF KEITH GUYLER A Northcote Story from 1994
A TIME OF TRIALOur bank were trying to foreclose on our mortgage because it had not been paid for over six months, we had over 15 very large Heavy Horses of various breeds in our care. Some like Goliath and Big Bonnie had very ser...
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"THEY ARE FRIGHTENED OF YOU IN THE X RAY DEPARTMENT" rewrite of story from Northcote 1998 to 2008
“They’re frightened of you in the x ray department,” he continued. “But I must have this shot down at the joint.”I couldn’t for the life of me think why they should be frightened!I was in this trolley with sides, although...
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LETTER FROM FRANCE WEEK 2022 Week 27, 27 June "The 4L needs fixing"
We began to look at Ruth's Renault 4L (our local shopping runabout) at the end of last week, as it had this smell on petrol hanging around and seemed to be getting worse.I stuck a piece of cardboard under the fuel tank and yes to be sure...
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"IF YOU TOUCH A HORSE A DOG OR EVEN A CAT,".........rewrite of story from Its a Rum Life at Northcote.
“IF YOU TOUCH A HORSE, A DOG OR EVEN A CAT IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.....DO NOT COME BACK HERE !!”Rewrite of a story from Its a Rum Life at Northcote,Book Two 1998 to 2008These very words were spoken to ...
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THE ONIONS DAY IN COURT (Re write) Chapter 19 in It's a Rum Life Book Three, tales from New Bolingbroke
A few months passed and we received a strange phone call from those farmers and produce merchants we had carted the onions for, they were in a big way of business, located to the north east of Boston and about ten miles out of town.They ...
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WE OPENED A BOTTLE OF "GRAVES" TODAY. Letter from France Week 28 11 July 2022
Yes we have a proper cellar on the property, again all by accident as our whole coming to live here has been.There is a small house here and a huge barn, a metal built barn, high and wide, easily big enough for a couple of large combine ...
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SATURDAY MADHOUSE AT THE BELL INN Tales from Ivy House, New Bolingbroke, 1974
Then just as suddenly it was all over and relative peace and quite reigned until the next group of buses from another large part of the midlands would descend on that modern “oasis” and it would all begin again.We admit to finding good r...
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CREATING OUR FIRST WINE CELLAR Tales from Ivy House, New Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire UK 1973
Back to Ivy House and the now established wine cellar, we had plenty of storage capacity and as the years went by we learned much more about wine and how to keep it.Buy the late 1970's we were making annual trips to France ourselves and ...
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HUGE DIVERSIONS Motoring Story 2.5 Harrogate to Scarborough in 1948 via Middlesborough
The bridge has over the years been the subject of many amusing stories, the main one was televised when a gang of locals sold it to some gullible folk in America...it was only a story of course!So, whenever we set off to visit Scarborough, ...
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