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by DelP
27 Aug 2011, 15:34
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Excuse me ???
Replies: 1
Views: 374

Excuse me ???

13.10 (BST) More from CNN: Even before the hurricane's eye made landfall, more than 26,000 people were without power Saturday morning, said Mark Van Sciver of the North Carolina Joint Information Center. Van Sciver said 7,381 people were staying in 81 shelters. The news broadcaster has also reporte...
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 15:33
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

DaveB wrote: Still a lack of happy family shots here I'm afraid.. none that included my sister anyway. Wonder why that is? *-)
That's the reality check Dave...I don't have any pics of my dad...
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 15:01
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

Not quite all our yesterdays but still..chatting with my baby bro Nigel, 15 years younger than me, a walk along the Quantocks, taken 7 or 8 years ago.

Image

Derek ;)
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 13:23
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

:lol: Excellent..if you haven't done jankers you haven't served :thumbsup: Spent one or two nights in the guardroom myself ;) Derek edit: a pleasant night out in Richmond, Yorkshire (just up the road from Catterick) was ruined by the Black Watch turning up and causing mayhem. Other Corps and Regimen...
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 12:12
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

Thanks for that. I was trying to be diplomatic and not make you older than you are (or as old as you are) :lol: :lol: :lol: No need Dave, I don't give a damn anymore :lol: That's reminded me of being a teen in Weymouth, the RN Shore Patrol had a little office down by the harbour, a couple of Sherpa...
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 11:36
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

:lol: :lol:

Could be late '50s Dave..somewhere near Portland :lol:

I think this was taken before we went to Malta, 1959-1960 *-)

Derek ;)
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 10:50
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

Left to right, brother John, auntie Margaret, grandma Roberts, me, photo taken by mum. No menfolk in the pic, dad and uncle Tom were submariners, grandad Roberts was merchant navy. http://delp.cbfsim.org/images/old.jpg There was only a year between me and my brother and although we looked totally di...
by DelP
26 Aug 2011, 01:07
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: All our yesterdays...
Replies: 369
Views: 193817

Re: All our yesterdays...

me - fighting off another Klingon attack! :lol: :lol: That's a smashing photo Dave, the logistics of family hols in the '60s :lol: I think I had a hat like that :-# Currently brow-beating my sister (younger but just as bad :lol: ) as I suspect she has a load of old family photos in a battered suitc...
by DelP
24 Aug 2011, 23:51
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: H&S goes mad again....
Replies: 6
Views: 878

Re: H&S goes mad again....

:lol: I like that ;) H&S at work has got past a joke, the screw tightens everytime some numpty does something stupid. On the way in you pass a full length mirror with a placard above that states 'This person is responsible for your safety' Thanks for that but I left infant school a long time ago...
by DelP
24 Aug 2011, 01:56
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Shakin' all over!
Replies: 27
Views: 4086

Re: Shakin' all over!

When I was living in Belize a good few years ago a major earthquake hit Honduras, the shocks hit Belize at 0630. The house turned to rubber, the floor, ceiling and walls all went in different directions...the best bit was the sensation of floating as the bed dropped from underneath me. A few minutes...