Mrs Bloggs 'At Home' Etiquette/Protocols
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I see your posting was at 0628 today. I presume the excitement of today being THE DAY was just too much for you in your anxiety on behalf of MM?
Am i correct in my observation?
I see your posting was at 0628 today. I presume the excitement of today being THE DAY was just too much for you in your anxiety on behalf of MM?
Am i correct in my observation?
Well now ..........
........... thegypsy, at the risk of being thought a braggart, I should say I am an early riser and always have been (paper round used to start at 0530 in my youth). I usually have to go to bed, however, shortly after the early evening news!!
So this morning, spring out of bed 0505 hours GMT - cold shower of course
, make cup of tea for self and another for Mrs O-D, then a quick flick through the emails and pprune before off with the dogs for a morning walk - local muntjac, badgers, hares etc take cover.
No luck with the lottery ticket again this week so must write another book to stave off the rent collector! Now where was I? Chapter One; 'With one bound he was at her side, his hot breath upon her her cheek'. Thank heaven for the Mills and Boon contract!!
O-D
So this morning, spring out of bed 0505 hours GMT - cold shower of course
, make cup of tea for self and another for Mrs O-D, then a quick flick through the emails and pprune before off with the dogs for a morning walk - local muntjac, badgers, hares etc take cover. No luck with the lottery ticket again this week so must write another book to stave off the rent collector! Now where was I? Chapter One; 'With one bound he was at her side, his hot breath upon her her cheek'. Thank heaven for the Mills and Boon contract!!
O-D
'Behind the hangar Doors' traces the history of the Royal Air force by recalling folklore, anecdote and the origins of the services own customs and traditions.
Shouldn't take long to read then, pending promulgation of MM's full report on today's "At Home", once he has recovered, and possibly a contender for the world's shortest book ......
PS And no comment about spelling since I'm feeling charitable, having just come back from a thoroughly enjoyable "At Home"
Shouldn't take long to read then, pending promulgation of MM's full report on today's "At Home", once he has recovered, and possibly a contender for the world's shortest book ......
PS And no comment about spelling since I'm feeling charitable, having just come back from a thoroughly enjoyable "At Home"
Newer Book Than 'HANGAR DOORS'
Philip Congdon, who frequently writes letters to the Telegraph, published an updated version of 'hangar doors'. It is called PER ARDUA AD ASTRA - A Handbook of the Royal Air Force. The ISBN is 1853104787 and it retailed at £14.95 from the now defunct (I think) Airlife Publishing Ltd. Its second edition came out in about 1994 and so much of the stuff about the more modern aspects of the service are dated.
Haven't checked what Amazon is selling it for.
O-D
Haven't checked what Amazon is selling it for.
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PER ARDUA AD ASTRA - A Handbook of the Royal Air Force
Amazon have used copies from £2.76 inc. P&P.
I must mention this to my dearly beloved. With a little luck, a copy might just appear under the tree in three weeks' time. I could do with a bit of a refresher as I lent my CESR booklet and notes from the early eighties to a VR(T) friend some time ago.
I presume that the distinctions between glowing, perspiring and sweating remain but does eating chocolate in public still cause offence in today's mess?
Awaiting MM's comprehensive report with interest.
I must mention this to my dearly beloved. With a little luck, a copy might just appear under the tree in three weeks' time. I could do with a bit of a refresher as I lent my CESR booklet and notes from the early eighties to a VR(T) friend some time ago.
I presume that the distinctions between glowing, perspiring and sweating remain but does eating chocolate in public still cause offence in today's mess?
Awaiting MM's comprehensive report with interest.
Old Duffer
Have you still got a copy of 'Best of Sellers'? I'm sure the Mills & Boon quotation is from 'Balham, Gateway to The South'.
Can't wait to hear how IT WENT!
This thread has kept me with PPrUnE - most of the rest are typical of argumentative forums.
Brian
Can't wait to hear how IT WENT!
This thread has kept me with PPrUnE - most of the rest are typical of argumentative forums.
Brian
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Brian 48Nav,
Spot on - it was the only line I could think of on the spur of the moment. I'll probably be 'done' for plagerism and infringement of copyright.
It's 2113Z here, I expect MM is collecting his thoughts about his after action report. I shall set my alarm especially early tomorrow so as to be first with the hot news.
O-D
Spot on - it was the only line I could think of on the spur of the moment. I'll probably be 'done' for plagerism and infringement of copyright.
It's 2113Z here, I expect MM is collecting his thoughts about his after action report. I shall set my alarm especially early tomorrow so as to be first with the hot news.
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MM hasn't been sighted on here since his last post on 22nd Nov 2010.
Pre mission lock down ?
Hope he remembers to do a post action report.
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Pre mission lock down ?
Hope he remembers to do a post action report.
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Hopefully it will play out like some of the old WW11 movies,
with the bomber coming in low on 2 of it's 4 engines, flak damage
smoke trailing but a good and successful story to tell and all crew
returned safely if not a little worse for wear.
I wonder how many PPruner's are waiting for the report ?
Hopefully it will play out like some of the old WW11 movies,
with the bomber coming in low on 2 of it's 4 engines, flak damage
smoke trailing but a good and successful story to tell and all crew
returned safely if not a little worse for wear.
I wonder how many PPruner's are waiting for the report ?
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God, the suspense, waiting on the report, is killing me! 
Did MM let an audible fart slip in front of the hostess? Did the Colonel tell any stories of nailing Bengal Tigers when he was in India? Did MM laugh at the right time? Will he ever get re-invited? Most importantly... what was the hostess WEARING??... 
Did MM let an audible fart slip in front of the hostess? Did the Colonel tell any stories of nailing Bengal Tigers when he was in India? Did MM laugh at the right time? Will he ever get re-invited? Most importantly... what was the hostess WEARING??...
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It's worse for us, we are awake for the next 12 hours, at least those in the UK can get some sleep during the waiting period - unless the suspense is keeping them awake.
Maybe MM was ambushed by Mrs Col. or the daughter and might not have made it home - or to his home. Then again, no request for reinforcements or SAR seems to have been made. Could have gone into E&E mode ?
It's worse for us, we are awake for the next 12 hours, at least those in the UK can get some sleep during the waiting period - unless the suspense is keeping them awake.
Maybe MM was ambushed by Mrs Col. or the daughter and might not have made it home - or to his home. Then again, no request for reinforcements or SAR seems to have been made. Could have gone into E&E mode ?
Oh My Gauld!
0651 and nothing yet. Somebody take 'overdue' action and those south of the M4, commence search operations - MM must be found. Hang on a bit we don't even have a description to circulate to the Police.
Coffin-Dodger, just to let you know, if MM doesn't come back on line we'll just make it up!!!
Does anyone remember: "Sea Wife & Biscuit"? In the last 1940s or so there were adverts in the national press about these two with cryptic notices in the personal columns and this led to speculation that it was somebody trying to trace a wartime love. A spin off was a '50s (I think) film starring somebody like Richard Burton and Jean Simmonds about a couple shipwrecked together on an island and how they lived together until rescued: turns out the woman was a nun and the guy never found this out. Last scene shows two nuns walking along and man passes them. Nun 'A' says: 'who's that', Nun 'B' from under her wimpole, replies; 'Just someone I used to know'; role the credits, play the music, turn up the lights.
Perhaps MM was really the colonel wanting to know how to handle some ex-RAF type and its all been a double spoof - cue: Conspiracy Theories.
Dogs waiting - twoodle pip!!
O-D
Coffin-Dodger, just to let you know, if MM doesn't come back on line we'll just make it up!!!
Does anyone remember: "Sea Wife & Biscuit"? In the last 1940s or so there were adverts in the national press about these two with cryptic notices in the personal columns and this led to speculation that it was somebody trying to trace a wartime love. A spin off was a '50s (I think) film starring somebody like Richard Burton and Jean Simmonds about a couple shipwrecked together on an island and how they lived together until rescued: turns out the woman was a nun and the guy never found this out. Last scene shows two nuns walking along and man passes them. Nun 'A' says: 'who's that', Nun 'B' from under her wimpole, replies; 'Just someone I used to know'; role the credits, play the music, turn up the lights.
Perhaps MM was really the colonel wanting to know how to handle some ex-RAF type and its all been a double spoof - cue: Conspiracy Theories.
Dogs waiting - twoodle pip!!
O-D