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I’ll be voting. I always have done but this is the first time ever I can’t decide which party to support. Many others are sharing the same dilemma. Labour will probably win on a wave of apathy and a low turnout.
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…..as will be the case at the July election!
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The late Queen waved at me once!
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We went for lunch in a hotel in Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre and the waitress said ‘Och, you’ve just missed Mr. Mcartney!’ ( He had a farm nearby when he was married to Linda.)
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Elsie and Dorris Waters. I remember them. They weren’t remotely funny.
I’ve never met anyone famous. I once sat next to Princess Michael of Kent (I was told afterwards) on a flight from Milan (we didn't enjoin in scintillating conversation) and I once smiled at Lionel Blair in the newsagent’s at Heathrow. I also stood next to Stirling Moss in the check in queue.
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‘I remember you’. Rings rather hollow doesn’t it!
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Why I was christened Philip I’ll never know. It means ‘lover of horses’. I’ve been thrown off a couple of times so they don’t love me! I’ve always been called Phil. As a wartime baby my grandfather wanted my parents to call me Winston but that conjures up someone from the Windrush generation!
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Rear gunner - known as ‘Tail End Charlie’. A life expectancy of 40 flying hours.
I’ve been in a Lanc and remember the confined space and climbing over the main spar to get rearward.
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3 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:
I don't think there is an explanation, as such, but these places seem to have some way of retaining memories of what occurred there.
I had a similar feeling some years ago when I was being driven from Munich to Augsburg to see machinery trials. I saw a signpost to Dachau. It sent a cold shiver down my spine!
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11 hours ago, Brew said:
Nigger the dogs grave is to be moved to RAF Marnham if the council proposal goes ahead
Apparently the gravestone has been removed as ‘it might cause offence to black people’. There was a petition to reinstate it but it was rejected.
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The chap I knew there was Gavin (Harry) Marshall. Although a ‘techie’ he sported the full RAF handlebar moustache. Latterly he was instructing on track days with Porches, Astons and similar. He also works for forces charities based in Grimsby.
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3 minutes ago, Beekay said:
When driving for SPD, I frequently had to visit many of those RAF stations in Lincs and Cambs., including USAF Alconbury. Mainly delivering to the NAAFI and stores. When at Wittering, near Peterborough, I was driving round when a bloody great Harrier jet came in to land and what I thought was just above me. It frightened the life out of me as I thought he'd took my roof off.
I flew over Alconbury back in the 70’s when it was a US Airforce base. To make it ‘easy’ for the American pilots the active runway was marked with electrically lit moving arrows!
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The protesters were still there when I passed by three weeks ago but the ‘asylum’ camp is on course to go ahead and temporary buildings are arriving.
I remember the days when there was a Lancaster bomber parked as a ‘gate guardian’. It was moved to the Lincolnshire Air Museum at East Kirby where it’s being restored and they bring it out for display on air days. It’s sign written ‘Just Jane’ and they hope to get it flying again one day. The flying one is based at nearby Conningsby with the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and there’s one other in Canada which flew over here a few years ago. The borrowed an engine from Just Jane to fly back home! You can get a taxy ride in it at a cost of £445!
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Some years ago, when I was a member of the Lincolnshire Porsche club, one of the members was the chief engineer for the Red Arrows at Scampton. He organised a behind scenes tour of the hangars and the Guy Gibson office and memorabilia. The airfield’s scheduled to be a holding camp for illegal immigrants in the near future and there have been protest camps of objectors outside the main gates for many months. It looks like the immigrant camp is going ahead despite objections from the local authority who want to turn it into a heritage site. The Red Arrows have moved out and are now based at nearby RAF Waddington.
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Another signed print. Tony Brooks, Stirling Moss and Frank Costin.
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22 minutes ago, Beekay said:
And now I've got it in stereo. So it did'nt fail after all.
That brings back memories. Must be 25 years since I stood on that very spot. We used to the Petwood quite often.
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I paid £200 for that some years ago in Newark. Limited edition of 750. A bargain when you look at the prices!
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Look at the signature bottom RHS. Beryl Cook.
Limited edition print.
’Four Hungry Cats’.
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Just for you Jill
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3 minutes ago, Beekay said:
Would'nt know. Never heard of him.
Must confess neither have I but we do have some Victorian watercolours and more prints than we have wall space for.
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The only time I tried pottery was at Patching’s Farm Art Centre some years ago. We still have the miserable specimen in a display cabinet.
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1 hour ago, Jill Sparrow said:
I think there's one of my older sister as a baby, looking gormless!!! I seem to remember the name Freckleton on the back of it.
There isn't one of me. I broke the camera!
There was another well known local photographer, Edwin Hadley, who used to live in our village. His house, The Acre, opposite the church, was for sale when we moved here in 1962. It was bought by a director of Boots who used to commute to Beeston by train where a car would collect him from Beeston station. I certainly recall the name ‘Freckelton Studios’ so I must have a photo of myself somewhere.
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Our art master at Mellish, Charlie Evans, was a good guy. He had been a Lancaster pilot during the war. He lived at Attenborough and turned out for the village cricket team. He was also one of the senior CCF officers. A very charming, amiable bloke.
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1 hour ago, Brew said:
A picture should be representative, it should not need an explanation or some 'expert' to interpret it and tell what to think about, or what the 'artist' is trying to tell us.
Or is he trying to tell us his face and hair needs a good wash.
Then again, I'm just an old Philistine
I disagree there. A diagram should be representative and convey definitive information but art is a creative process and the results are open to interpretation by the observer. They say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Why does the Mona Lisa have an enigmatic smile?
I suppose, however, that portraiture should endeavour to capture the likeness of the subject without attempting to be a photographic image.
My favourite artists are the French impressionists plus a bit of Van Gogh!
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It just illustrated what a complete pillock Sunak is to stand outside Number 10 and deliver a speech in the pouring rain. Had It been Starmer I would have understood it!