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A very proud day for us, we went to see our 7 year old Granddaughter take part in her first rememberance service with the Brownies this morning. She stood there looking proud as punch. It was very well attended and was lovely to see so many youngsters taking part, the Brownies, Guides, Scouts and the local army cadets and pupils from both of the local primary schools laid wreaths, as these children are the generation who will hopefully ensure that this momentus tradition continues to be upheld long after we are all gone. 'Am also not ashamed to admit that it always brings tears to my eyes

Unlikely to get coarse mixed up with fine but the one to beware of is Whit (BSW) vs. UNC. Both coarse threads, mostly same pitch (so they may appear to fit). However, Whit is 55 degree thread angle whereas UNC is 60 degree. The different head size (so different spanner required - Whit vs. AF) is one way to differentiate.

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The person who mended my bike has just returned it....gave it a full service mended Puncture and even cleaned it......when the person collected it had a long chat about bikes in general......didnt bore me at all.....had another chat just now when it was returned very interesting person.........''Men in sheds'' eat your heart out......this person was a Lady.......lol

One year master and myself were traveling around Europe and it was just a coincidence that we reached Ypres Belgium on Rememberance day we stood at The Menin Gate Memorial with a lot of other people not all were from the Uk but there was not a dry eye anywhere

This is between me and you one day in my salon. a new member of the staff named Stuart had a client (lady) in for a trim normaly I would have done the trim, but I was booked up. Well clippers at the ready he started in the nape of the clients hair. The lady had a no 1 then no2 from the bottom of her ears. Now being a new stylist in my salon i was keeping my eyes on his work. A'HHHH just a minute Stuart you are useing th clippers with out any guard. I had to go over and stop him from cutting I blended in the mess that he had made, I did explaine to the client who was very nice about it. Then

My mum always erupted in floods of tears when they played the last post, she was in the WAAF during the war and lost her brother in the rearguard action at Dunkirk. I am proudly named after him.

Not much Whitworth about these days except perhaps for building bridges and repairing beam engines, Fred Dibnah would have known. Even huge ships are now welded together. I started in 1960 at Syd Smith's and some of my work in the gauge shop involved tapered threads to American Petroleum Institute (API) affectionately known in-house as IPA. I guess there's a good reason for the plethora of differently threaded thingies but the differences between some are very small and a pain for stocktaking. PS I always measure in metric.

When starting as an apprentice at the ROF straight from school I was faced with these funny measurements - millimetres!? Was not taught anything in metric at school. The reason for using metric at the ROF was that most drawings were based on Bofors designed guns. Then there was the mystery of different thread sizes and standards. unc, unf, bsf, bsw, bsp, ba, buttress, acme, square and even a 'bicycle' thread among others!

Did a bit of woodworks yesterday. Removed a rotted rowlock mounting from one of our club boats while still docked. Replaced the mounting using G clamps then drilled through existing holes so that new bolt holes aligned. Bit tricky using the battery drill from outside of the boat while sitting in the boat. Then did a bit of fishing and caught nowt.

History could repeat itself? If we knew what that history was, of course!

At the junction of Bar gate and the Great North road Newark, or The traffic island near the castle Rog

According to my Zeus book the tapping size for 5BA is 2,65mm or a number 37 drill

From the film 'Ragman's Daughter' - all three just visible here. (Yeoman's might've been Army & General).

RIP Sub-Lieutenant Phillips I used to enjoy listening to the Navy Lark on Sunday lunchtime. Along with many other roles he voiced the sorting hat in the Harry Potter films. The last surviving cast member is Judy Cornwell of Keeping up Appearances fame who played Wren Cornwell in one series. My favourite character was Leading Seaman "Taffy" Goldstein I just loved his Welsh accent.