Admiral Draper's Really Really Boring and Totally Pointless Snippets of Information
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: South of Old Warden
Age: 85
Posts: 1,376
I have a couple of old RAF mates coming to stay with me for a few days, this coming week. We've known each other for over 60 years and although we're all a bit doddery now we'll no doubt revert, or attempt, to being 20 year old corporals again. We'll also be sampling beers and whisky, hopefully with some moderation! Loads of banter will be the order of the day.
Scalextric for Men
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Southern England outside the M25
Posts: 276
The mistake is to get everything on the go and forget the essential mug of tea.
The abutment to 4mastacker's lock: needs a redesign.
Include a bunker for passing wardens, bird watchers etc.
Tea making power supply; for the use of.
Gun turrets to frighten the canal pirates.
So where will the person stand and say: "I see no ships".
The abutment to 4mastacker's lock: needs a redesign.
Include a bunker for passing wardens, bird watchers etc.
Tea making power supply; for the use of.
Gun turrets to frighten the canal pirates.
So where will the person stand and say: "I see no ships".
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: with the wife
Posts: 356
A "Tea making power supply; for the use of." was just a few yards further off to the right where natural needs breaks must also be taken. We are not allowed to "water" the bushes as it apparently affects the ecology and might scare maiden ladies walking their pooches. The local farmers have a very good "pirate alert" system in place to prevent their tractors and other good stuff being...errr.....recycled by white van owners of no fixed abode.
Stargazing
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: West
Posts: 427
Reasons to be Cheerful
Looks great, 4ma, 'tidy job' as they say hereabouts.
Was thinking about the little pleasures in life; specifically, favourite sounds. Right there at the top of the list would be the small, contented, snuffling noise my dog makes when she's eating the food in her dish.
What would yours be?
Was thinking about the little pleasures in life; specifically, favourite sounds. Right there at the top of the list would be the small, contented, snuffling noise my dog makes when she's eating the food in her dish.
What would yours be?
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: uk
Posts: 894
My resident male Blackbird shouts very loudly through my kitchen window if I have allowed the raisin supply on the windowsill to run out.
The female just sits there and stares very hard in similar circumstances.
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The female just sits there and stares very hard in similar circumstances.
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Stargazing
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: West
Posts: 427
Just settling down for the evening with a plate of toasted cheese sandwiches, a glass of merlot and a copy of 'Lord Halifax's Ghost Book'.
There are benefits to husband being off playing golf........
There are benefits to husband being off playing golf........
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Coasting South
Age: 67
Posts: 70
Ah yes! I forgot to mention the sound of Merlins. It not only brings a smile to my face but also makes the hairs on my neck stand up, sends a tingle down my spine, brings me out in goosebumps and I get a lump in my throat.
Second to the sound of Merlins is four Olympus engines attached to a Vulcan doing a climb. Audio ambrosia.
"Grub up." with a cork being popped is another one.
Second to the sound of Merlins is four Olympus engines attached to a Vulcan doing a climb. Audio ambrosia.
"Grub up." with a cork being popped is another one.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: 59°09N 002°38W (IATA: SOY, ICAO: EGER)
Age: 78
Posts: 812
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: with the wife
Posts: 356
I think I've overdone it with the weed & moss killer on me front lawn. It looks like a lorry load of coal dust has been dumped on it....Oooops! 
Whilst I was doing a submission for our society's magazine, I came across a photo of the lock taken a year ago just before restoration work started. The bend in the nearside wall is quite clear. Been a few changes since then.
Whilst I was doing a submission for our society's magazine, I came across a photo of the lock taken a year ago just before restoration work started. The bend in the nearside wall is quite clear. Been a few changes since then.
Tsamaya sentle
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Germany
Posts: 154
We'll be getting new roof tiles plus new insulation and two new windows in a week from now. Must get all furniture and stuff out of the attic before then. Horror.
P.S.: And back in again when it's finished. Also horror.
P.S.: And back in again when it's finished. Also horror.
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: EGNX country
Age: 66
Posts: 215
Good morning all.
Another beautiful start to the day following on from yesterday's beauty.
Quite fond of the sound of a burbling stream myself or at the
other end of the scale a really good thunderstorm while wrapped
up in bed.
On this day in 1944
World War II: The Battle of Normandy began. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commenced with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France to liberate Western Europe from German occupation.The allied soldiers quickly broke through the Atlantic Wall and pushed inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...plan-revealed/
Another beautiful start to the day following on from yesterday's beauty.
Quite fond of the sound of a burbling stream myself or at the
other end of the scale a really good thunderstorm while wrapped
up in bed.
On this day in 1944
World War II: The Battle of Normandy began. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commenced with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France to liberate Western Europe from German occupation.The allied soldiers quickly broke through the Atlantic Wall and pushed inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...plan-revealed/
