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  1. Brought large fish from the supermarket or me tea got it home & all the insides where missing ...... Gutted!
    3 points
  2. 'Exclusive' as seen on Yahoo News this afternoon. Former suspects mother remembers a woman in purple loitering near the McCanns apartment. Well that's brilliant after 10 years. Geordie tart and 1D toy boy conjure up unusual name for their brat........ I couldn't be arsed to enquire. Paris Jackson lands movie role.....Zzzzzzzzz. Bob Geldof ........ As above..... Cockney tart regrets abortions........ Likewise.... Diane Abbott makes a hash of interview over 10,000 more proposed police......... God, she's thick !
    2 points
  3. Part 2(of 3) Field training was entirely different, if we weren’t taking Bren Guns, grenades mortars etc. to pieces we were marched up on to Woodbury common crawling about in the heather & gorse learning to live (& fight?) in the open. Also on the range firing every type of infantry weapon used during the war from Browning pistols to a PIAT anti tank weapon that really needed a firm hold when fired! I achieved ‘Marksman’ with the rifle and followed it up several years later being in the County small bore rifle team nearly 200 times. Exercise got rid of the extra calories we were b
    2 points
  4. We all know April 23rd. is St Georges Day (or should do!) but I have another reason to remember this date. Going back to the autumn of 1945 I had been virtually made redundant for the best of reasons, servicemen returning after the war wanted their jobs back! I was one of the victims and with no trade training another job was hardly an option with 2 years compulsory National Service coming up. So being a keen Army Cadet I decided to try the Army for a career so on my 17th. birthday, a Monday, I called at the recruiting office at London Rd. School @ 5.05.pm. to find it closed 25 minutes Early!
    1 point
  5. Willy warmer now there's a blast from the past, mine got stollen off the washing line, not to bothered, it's the 40 pegs I would like back.
    1 point
  6. The two most upsetting words for a man are "Don't" and "Stop" Unless of course they're said together..
    1 point
  7. Thanks for the infro about the goldfish plantfit. I just hope some one is looking after them, but it's so sad to see these gardens and pond looking in a way that no body cares any more. but this seems to be the norm now, message to planners please, please do not destroy any more of our city.
    1 point
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