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Role reversal this weekend. Our gardener trainee Guide can't pole.
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Lovely pic
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Thanks, lg
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Fliegs is the guy dressed all in white dancing at the begining.....
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Mr & Mrs OFSO (left and right) and German friends at my 73rd birthday lunch yesterday. The smiles are because we have just reduced the population of wild boar by at least one.
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Rather be an 'old fart' than an 'old tart' !
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OFSO wrote:Mr & Mrs OFSO (left and right) and German friends at my 73rd birthday lunch yesterday.
The smiles are because we have just reduced the population of wild boar by at least one.
Great photo, happy birthday.
The boars taste good ?
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I am reminded of a business lunch at Tegel See, Berlin, circa 1969. Fabulous open-air restaurant in woodland setting. Just two of us for lunch. Waiter walks passed carrying tray aloft containing very large roast leg of lamb?. Comment to another waiter taking our order "We'll have some of that", with an expectation we would get a few slices off said leg.
In due course a waiter turns up with similar loaded tray. Places it on our table and with very sharp knife scores the leg down one side, turns it over and scores the other. Then splits the meat clean off the bone and places half on each of our plates. Vague recollection of there being some vegies and salad, but neither was touched, as we hoed into the biggest lump of beautifully cooked lamb I had ever tasted. Ample lubricant of good German wine to accompany.
Happies OFSO.
Alison
In due course a waiter turns up with similar loaded tray. Places it on our table and with very sharp knife scores the leg down one side, turns it over and scores the other. Then splits the meat clean off the bone and places half on each of our plates. Vague recollection of there being some vegies and salad, but neither was touched, as we hoed into the biggest lump of beautifully cooked lamb I had ever tasted. Ample lubricant of good German wine to accompany.
Happies OFSO.
Alison
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Belated Happy Birthday OFSO
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The boars taste good ?
This is an amazing restaurant up in the hills. Started by a chap from the deep south who came up here and is now very Catalan. Has had the same staff for as long as I can remember, closes for six weeks in spring every year and flies them all off on holiday - at his expense. He remembers every client: if I phone for a reservation I don't even have to say "this is.." as he immediately knows my voice. Restaurant is full every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday with French who drive down to get a superior meal and enjoy not being chucked out at 14:00 by a French proprieter wanting a sleep. Yes, despite the wretched EU imposing laws which prevent locally-killed boar being dressed and hung on the spot as they used to be, the meat is superb. I find stewed boar better than roast: stewed boar falls apart under the fork, roast can be chewy.
Must not be too rude about the French - the New Year's Eve meal I had last night at a tiny French restaurant (friends and family only) was amazing. Roast duck in a honey sauce. Only drank one glass of wine, but didn't pass a single police car on the way home at 2 a.m.
Thanks for birthday wishes. Where HAS the last 73 years gone ? Work, drinking and fornication explains a lot, but I must have done other things.....
This is an amazing restaurant up in the hills. Started by a chap from the deep south who came up here and is now very Catalan. Has had the same staff for as long as I can remember, closes for six weeks in spring every year and flies them all off on holiday - at his expense. He remembers every client: if I phone for a reservation I don't even have to say "this is.." as he immediately knows my voice. Restaurant is full every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday with French who drive down to get a superior meal and enjoy not being chucked out at 14:00 by a French proprieter wanting a sleep. Yes, despite the wretched EU imposing laws which prevent locally-killed boar being dressed and hung on the spot as they used to be, the meat is superb. I find stewed boar better than roast: stewed boar falls apart under the fork, roast can be chewy.
Must not be too rude about the French - the New Year's Eve meal I had last night at a tiny French restaurant (friends and family only) was amazing. Roast duck in a honey sauce. Only drank one glass of wine, but didn't pass a single police car on the way home at 2 a.m.
Thanks for birthday wishes. Where HAS the last 73 years gone ? Work, drinking and fornication explains a lot, but I must have done other things.....
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A New Year's Day picture.
New Years Day 1958 that was!
The guy at the front left, with the handfull of lightning was a slightly younger me.
New Years Day 1958 that was!
The guy at the front left, with the handfull of lightning was a slightly younger me.
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Great pic Ian. I didn't know you had served with Mr. Pastry (Top row, 2nd left )
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ian16th wrote:The guy at the front left, with the handfull of lightning was a slightly younger me.
Only slightly younger Ian.
Years back everyone on TOP Military tried to convince me that as a Cpl Tech down the Gulf in 1966 my stripes weren't upside down, but I am still convinced they were. They also said that all the Tech ranks had been discontinued by then. Given the shoulder flashes and Cpl stripes were you a Cpl Tech Ian. I have photos of me from 1965 when my Jnr Tech stripe was upside down.
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When I was at Finningley 65-67 the techies stripes were definitely upside down. Can’t remember whether they were or not when I returned to Finningley in early 68 after a tour Khormaksar/Sharjah but I think they were gone by the time I went to Scampton at the end of 69.
Wikipedia reckons that the inverted chevron was discontinued in 1964 but I guess it took a while to work through the system.
Wikipedia reckons that the inverted chevron was discontinued in 1964 but I guess it took a while to work through the system.
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Sise I have a quite strong memory of tacking my Cpl stripes on to KD at Sharjah, later to be done properly by a tailor down the souk. And they was definitely upside down. Being a Cpl Tech had far more status than an ordinary CPL. Reckon Wikipedia in this context is a heap of sh1t.
Alison
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Why? Those sound like perfectly good recreations, provided you don't overdo the work.Thanks for birthday wishes. Where HAS the last 73 years gone ? Work, drinking and fornication explains a lot, but I must have done other things.....
(Belated) Happy birthday, OFSO.
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I too became a Cpl/Tech, and was so at the time of the demise of the rank.
Cpl/Tech's, Sen/Tech and Master Tech's became Cpls, Sgts and W.O. on 1st April 1964. The same date the J/T's single chevron became a 4 bladed prop.
The guys who really missed out and had most to moan about were some of the Chief/Techs. They stayed in existence, but they were now a rank above Sgt and below Flt/Sgt, and their badge of rank changed from 3 chevrons with the apex uppermost surmounted by a crown, to 3 chevrons apex down surmounted buy the J/T's 4 blades prop.
At the time some of these Chief/Techs had passed a Trade Test to be PROMOTED to Chief/Tech from Flt/Sgt!
On 1 April 1964 they found themselves junior to guys who had been promoted to Flight/Sgt since the Chief/Techs were promoted from the rank!
There was much muttering into beer mugs in the Sgt's Mess's of the RAF.
This came back to haunt me recently.
Medal Review
At this Medal Review it was decided to give the GSM to guys in Cyprus, for the period 21 December 1963 to 26 March 1964.
These dates are from when the Greek & Turks started shooting at each other, until the UN Forces officially took responsibility.
You can see that the end date, 26th March 1964, is just before the change of ranks on 1st April 1964.
Medals that are engraved with a persons number, rank and name, should show the rank at the time, not any subsequent rank.
Cpl/Tech Ian was Ord/Cpl at Akrotiri on 21st Dec 1963! It was the Saturday before Xmas and the night of the Cpls Club Xmas Dance & Draw, and even that normally went on to the we small hours and it was definitely the worst night of the year to pull Ord/Cpl.
During the afternoon of 21st, I was sat in the Cpls/Club drinking tea and reading the papers. When a head appears asking for the Ord/Cpl.
One of the Ord/Cpls responsibilities was the Transit Billet! Some guys wanted bedding, on a Saturday. Not at all normal.
So off I go to the Transit Billet where I find, not new arrivals but 3 guys from RAF Nicosia.
They had been acting as an escort to a load of outdated ammunition, which in those Eco-Friendly days was disposed of by the Marine Craft Unit at Limassol taking out to a deep part of the Med and kicking it over the side!
The 'escort' each had a .303 and 10 rounds.
The Greeks had decided to ignore the Turkish veto in parliament and the Turks were demonstrating in Nicosia, 2 Greek policemen paniced and shot a couple of Turks. We all know now how it escalated.
The RAF Bedford was told not to travel back via Nicosia City but go to Akrotiri for the night. They handed their .303's and 10 rounds into the armoury and came to me looking for for somewhere to sleep.
Next I'm called to a major meeting! The Ord/Officer, Ord/Sgt and me! Remember this was the Saturday before Xmas, we 3 were running Akrotiri!
The O/O had been briefed and it was decided the the Cpls/Club Dance & Draw, that would have many attendee's from Limassol, would stop at 23:00 and all LOP's would be home and out of danger by 23:59.
I at least was going to get a nights sleep. In the draw, I won a Russell Hobbs Automatic electric kettle! With a few new elements and a couple of switches, it lasted about 15 years!
Back to the GSM.
Last year I applied for my 50 year old GSM and realising the likely errors with my rank, on the application I put:
Guess what is engraved on the medal?
So I annotated the receipt thus:
Of course this was met with a total lack of response from Innsworth.
Cpl/Tech's, Sen/Tech and Master Tech's became Cpls, Sgts and W.O. on 1st April 1964. The same date the J/T's single chevron became a 4 bladed prop.
The guys who really missed out and had most to moan about were some of the Chief/Techs. They stayed in existence, but they were now a rank above Sgt and below Flt/Sgt, and their badge of rank changed from 3 chevrons with the apex uppermost surmounted by a crown, to 3 chevrons apex down surmounted buy the J/T's 4 blades prop.
At the time some of these Chief/Techs had passed a Trade Test to be PROMOTED to Chief/Tech from Flt/Sgt!
On 1 April 1964 they found themselves junior to guys who had been promoted to Flight/Sgt since the Chief/Techs were promoted from the rank!
There was much muttering into beer mugs in the Sgt's Mess's of the RAF.
This came back to haunt me recently.
Medal Review
At this Medal Review it was decided to give the GSM to guys in Cyprus, for the period 21 December 1963 to 26 March 1964.
These dates are from when the Greek & Turks started shooting at each other, until the UN Forces officially took responsibility.
You can see that the end date, 26th March 1964, is just before the change of ranks on 1st April 1964.
Medals that are engraved with a persons number, rank and name, should show the rank at the time, not any subsequent rank.
Cpl/Tech Ian was Ord/Cpl at Akrotiri on 21st Dec 1963! It was the Saturday before Xmas and the night of the Cpls Club Xmas Dance & Draw, and even that normally went on to the we small hours and it was definitely the worst night of the year to pull Ord/Cpl.
During the afternoon of 21st, I was sat in the Cpls/Club drinking tea and reading the papers. When a head appears asking for the Ord/Cpl.
One of the Ord/Cpls responsibilities was the Transit Billet! Some guys wanted bedding, on a Saturday. Not at all normal.
So off I go to the Transit Billet where I find, not new arrivals but 3 guys from RAF Nicosia.
They had been acting as an escort to a load of outdated ammunition, which in those Eco-Friendly days was disposed of by the Marine Craft Unit at Limassol taking out to a deep part of the Med and kicking it over the side!
The 'escort' each had a .303 and 10 rounds.
The Greeks had decided to ignore the Turkish veto in parliament and the Turks were demonstrating in Nicosia, 2 Greek policemen paniced and shot a couple of Turks. We all know now how it escalated.
The RAF Bedford was told not to travel back via Nicosia City but go to Akrotiri for the night. They handed their .303's and 10 rounds into the armoury and came to me looking for for somewhere to sleep.
Next I'm called to a major meeting! The Ord/Officer, Ord/Sgt and me! Remember this was the Saturday before Xmas, we 3 were running Akrotiri!
The O/O had been briefed and it was decided the the Cpls/Club Dance & Draw, that would have many attendee's from Limassol, would stop at 23:00 and all LOP's would be home and out of danger by 23:59.
I at least was going to get a nights sleep. In the draw, I won a Russell Hobbs Automatic electric kettle! With a few new elements and a couple of switches, it lasted about 15 years!
Back to the GSM.
Last year I applied for my 50 year old GSM and realising the likely errors with my rank, on the application I put:
Guess what is engraved on the medal?
So I annotated the receipt thus:
Of course this was met with a total lack of response from Innsworth.
Cynicism improves with age