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NutLoose 22nd Jan 2019 17:01

Whats in your airing cupboard?
 
Sheets, clothes, a few hundred K LOL

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartandhp

ex82watcher 22nd Jan 2019 17:37

I have vague mememories as a 5-7 year old living in MQs at RAF Abingdon,early 1960s of accompanying my mother to collect freshly laundered sheets (with 3 dark-blue lines down the centre) from a laundry on the station.Is my memory playing tricks ?,or were these provided in those days when domestic washing machines were not so ubiquitous.

langleybaston 22nd Jan 2019 19:52

Not so at RAF Nicosia 1961 4, but in Comet Crescent in almost all other respects "we never had it so good".

Rigga 22nd Jan 2019 19:54

I'll give him a year to 18 months before promotion...

Lionel Lion 22nd Jan 2019 20:14

That’s nothing I have a tank in mine!

old joke I know!

langleybaston 22nd Jan 2019 20:22

Minor digression warning.

Back in the day, RAFG seemed well paid and perked, so that new cars and frequent holidays were the norm.
During one flap [cause forgotten] I stashed a very considerable wad of DM, thinly arrayed and wrapped, under the driver's foot mat.
And there it became forgotten [clearly surplus to requirements] until we bulled the car ready to upgrade yet again.
Those were the days when cash was king and we could mislay a large chunk.

I wonder what she spent it on?

falcon900 23rd Jan 2019 09:24

It speaks volume for the quality of their accounting systems and processes. How come nobody noticed the £300k was missing from the safe?? Major Wilson is as culpable as WO2 Hodgkinson in my view.

Cows getting bigger 23rd Jan 2019 09:39

He's probably counting himself lucky that Clare Balding had moved-out of his airing cupboard a couple of days earlier. Imagine the stink if she had found 300k of Royal Navy petty cash stuffed between the sheets.

mopardave 23rd Jan 2019 09:49

Some defective heating controls.....what a time!

AARON O'DICKYDIDO 23rd Jan 2019 10:59

Ex82watcher
 

Originally Posted by ex82watcher (Post 10367543)
I have vague mememories as a 5-7 year old living in MQs at RAF Abingdon,early 1960s of accompanying my mother to collect freshly laundered sheets (with 3 dark-blue lines down the centre) from a laundry on the station.Is my memory playing tricks ?,or were these provided in those days when domestic washing machines were not so ubiquitous.

I recall back in the 1950's when the families club at Cranwell was taken over by Barrack Stores every Tuesday and Thursday for the purpose of exchanging bedding, light bulbs and issue of paper etc.
Yes, 3 blue lines down the centre of all bedding including blankets and of course the bolster case - remember those?

Aaron.

KenV 23rd Jan 2019 14:35

So three hundred grand disappeared for months and no one noticed? But only the one guy got hammered for it?

sitigeltfel 23rd Jan 2019 18:27



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