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Re: Photos of Everybody

#161 Post by Tall Bird » Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:12 pm

Mr Fox and TB:

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#162 Post by FD2 » Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:49 pm

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The charming presenter of that clip didn't mention the Royal Navy - do you think that was through being PC or just poor research?


Probably a bit of both FD2, as well as the fact that the current regime in SA are not very well disposed to anything that shows up white culture (of any stripe) in a good light and it is probably easier for young white film makers not to focus on the real history of the place which is the tragedy of the so called new South Africa. The old guard of conservative Afrikaners under the Apartheid regime were also suspicious of the English influenced navy after the hand over to the SADF back in 1957, so we have had two groups with chips on their respective shoulders trying to deny the very real cultural history of the place, but both have failed as almost every tradition and stone in and around the base speaks of the Royal Navy tradition and the town is still very English looking both in appearance and, in fact, through and by sentiment too.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the guest house 'Bon Esperance' still exists in some guise pretty much as it was in the 1940's by the way.

If you ever get a chance to travel back to Simonstown again then drop by the Simonstown yacht club for a drink and I am sure you will find many who will happily sit down and talk ad nauseam about the history of the town and the nautical goings on there back through the years reaching well back to the Second World war and earlier as well. Many of those people will have served in the Royal Navy, quite recently in many cases, as there is an ex-patriate British community living in and around Simonstown as well.

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Thought you might like this photo I just discovered in a book of mine - it must have been taken about the time I arrived there as a baby. The old man might well have been onboard Nigeria at the time.

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#163 Post by Cacophonix » Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:19 pm

FD2 wrote:
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Thought you might like this photo I just discovered in a book of mine - it must have been taken about the time I arrived there as a baby. The old man might well have been onboard Nigeria at the time.

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A wonderful, if somewhat pixelated, photo FD2 (I assume you had to scan it in). Many thanks! :-bd

I have sent a link to your post to an old colleague, good friend, absolute rogue and old Simon's Town hand who now lives in a house on the hill shown in the area cleared in that photo. I was talking to him on the phone only last night! He sounded decidedly the worse for wear after an evening carousing at the yacht club! Plus ca change, thankfully!

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Re: Photos of Everybody

#164 Post by FD2 » Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:21 pm

Caco

Yes it was scanned from a book about the RN in South Africa 1900 - 2000 ISBN 090-7771-82-3. The other cruiser Norfolk, in company with Suffolk, tailed Bismarck and Prinz Eugen through the Denmark Strait and was in at the kill, when she fired 527 8" shells and 8 torpedoes - a small part of the total number of shells and torpedoes fired against Bismark at the end. It's a tribute to the construction of Bismarck that it took so much to finally sink her. Norfolk also took part in the action against Scharnhorst. The quarries up the hill ring a bell - probably part of my brother's escapades!

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#165 Post by Tall Bird » Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:14 pm

With reference to the ‘are they, aren’t they’ :-? queries on another thread, you guys are shyte Sherlocks. You missed the winter footwear photo. :D Here’s the late spring/early summer one:
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#166 Post by Cacophonix » Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:21 pm

I did notice the photo Tall Bird but being the soul (or should that be the sole) of discretion decided to hold my counsel lest I raise more steam than your trainers/takkies did on the subject! =))

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#167 Post by Slasher » Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:55 am

Ah...so Fox3 and TB are an item. That clears up that! :)

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#168 Post by OFSO » Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:26 pm

Hydro, OFSO and Woody full of Indian nosh at Dishoom, June 19th 2018
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#169 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:50 am

Nice pic gentlemen! Woody, you seem so young to have a daughter who just graduated from Uni.

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#170 Post by Woody » Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:31 am

Thanks RIS, but that was angels daughter , my stepson finished Uni 5 years ago :-o Other offspring is twelve.
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#171 Post by Slasher » Sun Jun 24, 2018 10:07 am

Hydro looks closeish to what I imagined - an outwardly looking decent sort of a bloke...but with a fleeting underlying aura of pure evil! ;)))

Again sorry I missed the do.

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#172 Post by Capetonian » Sun Jun 24, 2018 10:32 am

Appearances can be deceptive.

OFSO looks like the archetypal perfect English gentleman, for example.

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#173 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:27 am

Mrs Ex-Ascot leaning on the bar of an airborne pub. She is the one on the right.
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#174 Post by Hydromet » Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:56 am

Hydro, OFSO and Woody full of Indian nosh at Dishoom, June 19th 2018
...and OFSO clumsily obscuring a good view of some side boob.

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#175 Post by Yamagata ken » Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:08 pm

Tis I

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Thanks all for greetings. :)

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#176 Post by flynverted » Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:28 am

Nice pic, Ken. :D

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Re: Photos of Everybody

#177 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:15 am

How do you post a pic?

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Re: Photos of Everybody

#178 Post by admin » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:30 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
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How do you post a pic?
Go into "Full Editor & Preview" mode, then position the cursor where in your text you want the image, and drag your image there. Once it's uploaded, which is automatic, click on the "Place inline" button just below the dialog box. And it's done.

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#179 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:08 pm

Now to find a pic on my laptop as I don't have D&D on this.

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Re: Photos of Everybody

#180 Post by admin » Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:38 pm

D&D ??

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