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Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:12 pm
by Tall Bird
Mr Fox and TB:
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Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:49 pm
by FD2
Cacophonix wrote: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.
Caco
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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Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:19 pm
by Cacophonix
FD2 wrote:Cacophonix wrote: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!
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!
Caco
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:21 pm
by FD2
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!
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:14 pm
by Tall Bird
With reference to the ‘are they, aren’t they’
queries on another thread, you guys are shyte Sherlocks. You missed the winter footwear photo.
Here’s the late spring/early summer one:
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:21 pm
by Cacophonix
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!
Caco
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:55 am
by Slasher
Ah...so Fox3 and TB
are an item. That clears up that!
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:26 pm
by OFSO
Hydro, OFSO and Woody full of Indian nosh at Dishoom, June 19th 2018
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:50 am
by Rwy in Sight
Nice pic gentlemen! Woody, you seem so young to have a daughter who just graduated from Uni.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:31 am
by Woody
Thanks
RIS, but that was
angels daughter , my stepson finished Uni 5 years ago
Other offspring is twelve.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 10:07 am
by Slasher
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.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 10:32 am
by Capetonian
Appearances can be deceptive.
OFSO looks like the archetypal perfect English gentleman, for example.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:27 am
by Ex-Ascot
Mrs Ex-Ascot leaning on the bar of an airborne pub. She is the one on the right.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:56 am
by Hydromet
Hydro, OFSO and Woody full of Indian nosh at Dishoom, June 19th 2018
...and OFSO clumsily obscuring a good view of some side boob.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:08 pm
by Yamagata ken
Tis I
Thanks all for greetings.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:28 am
by flynverted
Nice pic, Ken.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:15 am
by Pontius Navigator
How do you post a pic?
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:30 am
by admin
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.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:08 pm
by Pontius Navigator
Now to find a pic on my laptop as I don't have D&D on this.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:38 pm
by admin
D&D ??