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[plantfit 7,670]

Viewed from another angle

 

 

And me at the back end of a Lancaster

 

 

Rog

[Brew 5,460]

3 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

I think that is disgusting. When is this airbrushing of history going to stop?

It won't, even when the whingers and self-righteous get their way another generation of whiners will come along to replace them

[Brew 5,460]

5 hours ago, Willow wilson said:

You're right, it wasn't a base for B52s. I must have seen it elsewhere on a news programme or something. They're  still big heavy things though.

I wasn't contradicting you WW, I don't know if they ever flew from there

[Oztalgian 3,370]

19 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

I've been to many sites where tragic events have occurred yet never felt anything like that.

Jill,  I visited the A bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima Japan. You walk around the flame of peace until you find a plaque in your language that explains what happened. Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an air burst bomb that exploded just below 2,000 feet. It was not far from the Aioi Bridge. Regardless of nationality everyone looks up as if they can see something, I did too. From where I was stood my eyes were drawn to the cenotaph of the victims of the A bomb, almost 300,000 I felt a distinct aura around the place, I could not explain it and I am not religious but there was something there that I felt.

[Jill Sparrow 10,386]

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.

[Willow wilson 898]

59 minutes ago, Brew said:

I wasn't contradicting you WW, I don't know if they ever flew from there

Cheers Brew. I posted without checking the history. Which is not recommended. 

However, interesting post about U2's unusual landing operations.

[trogg 2,032]

Today I decided to do some thing completely different for a change  I was going to go hunting. I dressed in the correct gear taking the correct equipment and traveled to the far reaches of Bulwell , after going as far as I could by transport I proceeded on foot. I made my way along Main Street across the Market Place until I passed the ancient place formally known as Woolworths and onto the bridge over the Bogs, knowing my prey is not seen further than here I backtracked  my route . I looked carefully at all groups of women as he is known to join up with groups of them, then it was back across the Market and along Main street where I position myself outside Jeromes which is my quarries favourite watering hole. After all this exercise I took sustenance here ,the food and coffee was great but Ben was never sighted, I even took my glasses so I could recognise him if he was about. Although I failed this time I will continue my quest to find him another time, may be he had been trapped once again and held hostage by a female at some other place.

[Jill Sparrow 10,386]

He's easy to spot, young Trogg. He has a menu where his head should be and sometimes peeks rather furtively round the side of it!

[philmayfield 6,237]

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!

[plantfit 7,670]

48 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:

He has a menu where his head should be

As demonstrated here

 

 

Rog

[Jill Sparrow 10,386]

I visited Theresienstadt many years ago. It was a sombre place with obvious connotations of what took place there. One felt uncomfortable but nothing like the sensation I experienced at RAF Scampton.

 

The most frightening experience occurred in the undercroft of Wingfield Manor.  Some years ago, English Heritage were running tours of the ruins and a friend who grew up in the village and still lives there asked me if I'd like to go.  Everything was fine until we entered the undercroft through the large doors. We had walked about half way through when I walked into a wall of what felt like severe electrical static. There were two exits ahead of us and others were walking through the exit on the left, out into the open air.  There was no way I was going through that exit. Wild horses wouldn't have dragged me.  I had the terrible feeling there was something on the other side of it and if I walked through, I'd be dead. Totally irrational but that's how I felt.

 

After a lot of fuss and my friend's embarrassment (since no one else seemed to notice anything amiss) I turned round and ran out of the doorway I'd entered by.  No amount of cajoling would persuade me to go back inside.

 

Some weeks later, my friend ran into his old school chum whose farm encompasses the land on which Wingfield Manor stands.  He told him about what had happened to me. The farmer wasn't surprised.  He commented that he knew several people who had experienced the same thing and security guards with dogs cannot persuade their hounds to enter that area.

 

I'd love to know what it was but I don't intend going back to find out. I couldn't, even if I wanted to, as the ruins are no longer open to the public.

[Jill Sparrow 10,386]

13 minutes ago, plantfit said:

As demonstrated here

That's him! I'd know him anywhere!

[plantfit 7,670]

And once again between Jill and Den

 

 

You gotta be quick with a camera to catch him

 

Rog

[Jill Sparrow 10,386]

I'm now half the woman I was there, I'm delighted to say!  I was gaining weight without any logical reason and looking very bloated.  Thyroid problems, as yet unsuspected and undetected.

[Cliff Ton 10,527]

1 hour ago, trogg said:

 After all this exercise I took sustenance here ,the food and coffee was great but Ben was never sighted, I even took my glasses so I could recognise him if he was about. Although I failed this time I will continue my quest to find him another time, 

 

A reminder of what he looks like in his natural habitat, some time last year.

 

[mary1947 2,099]

 Before the Red Arrows were based at Scampton Lincs my brother had returned from an RAF station abroad and was based at Scampton (we had many a good Saturday night in the mess) but did you know that every night the camp was on RED ALERT and all the planes were pointed one way. One day when they used to have the Lans onshow near the gate, my brother ask if we woud like to go inside the plane. Well once inslde the Lancs  it was so small in they there was just no room to move, and as for the chap who was in the glass bubble with his machine gun, well there was just no hope. 

[philmayfield 6,237]

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.

[Beekay 5,232]

Wrong thread but....these Clematis blooms are massive. Like dinner plates. Pity theres only 9 blooms, but that's the extent of my gardening...

[mary1947 2,099]

Well done BK is this Clematis the one that is named Nelly-Moser?

[mary1947 2,099]

On 5/18/2024 at 12:59 PM, Oztalgian said:

Jill,  I visited the A bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima Japan. You walk around the flame of peace until you find a plaque in your language that explains what happened. Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an air burst bomb that exploded just below 2,000 feet. It was not far from the Aioi Bridge. Regardless of nationality everyone looks up as if they can see something, I did too. From where I was stood my eyes were drawn to the cenotaph of the victims of the A bomb, almost 300,000 I felt a distinct aura around the place, I could not explain it and I am not religious but there was something there that I felt.

i read with interest about your visit to Hiroshima japan. quite a few years ago we went to Poland to the see the Auschwitz  German concentration camps,l  the train tower you see in film's  I stood  looking out from the tower and pictured trains coming in full of humans, we went into the huts where people used to sleep it was also a very cold day. The people in the camps used to wear just rags they must have been so cold. They did have stoves in the huts but nothing to burn on them. We were invited to go inside the gas oven's sorry I did give that a miss. There were some school children who were there on a visit, they were with a Rabbi and each child had the flag with the star of David around their shoulders. It was very moving.

[Beekay 5,232]

38 minutes ago, mary1947 said:

Well done BK is this Clematis the one that is named Nelly-Moser?

Absolutely no idea M. When we bought many years ago, it was just a scraggy, runt of the litter that only cost me about 0.75p. It were more like a little twig, but we chose to buy it and give it a chance. It has rewarded us ever since. I cut it right back at the end of each year and we think we've lost it, but it surprises each year.

[IAN FINN 827]

Looks like one of your paintings Beekay very nice.

[nonnaB 4,909]

On 5/18/2024 at 9:18 AM, philmayfield said:

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.

My mum had a dog called Nigger when she was little. 

[nonnaB 4,909]

3 hours ago, Beekay said:

Absolutely no idea M. When we bought many years ago, it was just a scraggy, runt of the litter that only cost me about 0.75p. It were more like a little twig, but we chose to buy it and give it a chance. It has rewarded us ever since. I cut it right back at the end of each year and we think we've lost it, but it surprises each year.

A bit like our fig tree  €1.99 from Lidl and hasn’t stopped producing fruits . Last year our neighbour pruned it and said it probably wouldn’t give much fruit .  Haha This year I pruned it and cut out more than I should and said the same thing  . More leaves than fruit. It is now overloaded with big figs , medium figs and baby figs with grandchildren figs just sprouting through. I do thin them out but it never seems to deter it.

[Oztalgian 3,370]

At one time there was a brand of shoe polish in Australia called Nigger.