{"id":1044,"date":"2010-04-07T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T08:55:13","slug":"forging-ahead-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/forging-ahead-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging Ahead part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forging Ahead part 7<\/h2>\n

<\/strong>FORGING AHEAD by Jimmy Connerly (based on an idea by Rico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

scene 3 continued<\/strong>
\n\"willGrandad: Do you reckon we’ll find it Del?
\nDel: Where do we start?
\nGrandad: P’raps if I went and saw Reggie? He might confide in me, I am his father Del-boy.
\nDel: No, save your effort Grandad, he’d know Rodney and me sent you.
\nRodney: I still don’t get why he couldn’t get the money last Christmas if he knew where it was.
\nTrigger: Too tricky, Brian said.
\nRodney: Not tricky, no. Didn’t get the opportunity he said. And they were dad’s words, what did he mean by that?
\nDel: I wouldn’t knock yourself out over it Rodney, dad lies so much it’s hard to know what to believe and what not.
\nRodney: Gotta feel sorry for Inky though.
\nDel: Sorry for Inky? What about us?
\nRodney: We ain’t got nothing to do with this Del, even dad was only a fence.
\nDel: Launderer!
\nRodney: Fence, Launderer, no difference. It was Inky’s skill that got the money in the first place. We’re just vultures scavenging off a rotting carcass.
\nDel: Oh shut up Tinkerbell. You didn’t even know him. Inky was loaded long before this caper came along.
\nTrigger: No need to feel sorry for Inky Dave, he used to own a great big house up the Kings Avenue. His house was next door to Boycie.
\nDel: There you go Rodney, whatever has happened to Inky, at least he’s got better neighbours now.
\nRodney: Blimey, all that money from forgery!
\nDel: Get off, forgery! That was just a hobby with Inky. He made all his money in the print.
\nRodney: Get off!
\nGrandad: No, it’s true Rodney, he was a sign-writer.
\nDel: Yeah, sign-writing, lettering. It was Inky that did the New York, Paris and Peckham on the side of the van.
\nRodney: He made all that money doing signs?
\nDel: Yeah, straight. Landed a whopping contract with IBM when computers first started to get big. Designed and made all their logos for the city. Huge contract.
\nTrigger: Floors and Ceilings!
\nRodney: Eh?
\nDel: What’s up Trig? Are you stocktaking?
\nTrigger: No, I mean Inky, it weren’t just the sign writing. He organised all the false floors and ceilings for IBM. And walls.
\nDel: False ceilings, floors and walls? This is IBM Trig, not MI5!
\nTrigger: It was to tidy up all the computer cables Del. Like a plastic wall to keep them all out of sight and not in the way. Inky got me and Monkey Harris to install a load for them about then.
\nDel: What, you did all the computer cabling for IBM?
\nRodney: No wonder Amstrad and Apple are going so well these days!
\nTrigger: No, I didn’t do the cabling Dave, our job was just to house the cables behind the false walls and floors and that. It was like a plastic paneling really.
\nDel: Bloody hell. Are we going to concentrate on where this money’s got to or are we just going to discuss Trigger’s C.V. all day?
\nTrigger: I think you’re getting me mixed up with Denzil there Del-boy, he’s got one in the cab of his lorry.
\nRodney: No Trig, C.V.! Not C.B.! Your Curriculum Vitae!
\nTrigger: (None the wiser) Oh!
\nDel: Don’t worry about it Rodney, I don’t think he ‘copies’!<\/p>

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