Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[celtic]

To build a website?

[Mohican]

Mrs Red has bought some deep sided plates, almost bowls but not quite. More like powls or blates actually.

As ever, there are pluses and minuses. They're great for extra gravy, but almost impossible to lick clean.

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[celtic]

Did you see this? I read it on one the London papers last week. Thought if was a great story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410059/WW1-soldier-Captain-Robert-Campbell-freed-prison-camp-dying-mother-kept-promise-return.html

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Did you see this? I read it on one the London papers last week. Thought if was a great story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410059/WW1-soldier-Captain-Robert-Campbell-freed-prison-camp-dying-mother-kept-promise-return.html

Amazing story, and very revealing on many levels.

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that while he was a POW, Douglas Bader was taken to an airfield and allowed to fly a German fighter providing he gave his word that he wouldn't bugger off home.

[Rod Paradise]

Did you see this? I read it on one the London papers last week. Thought if was a great story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410059/WW1-soldier-Captain-Robert-Campbell-freed-prison-camp-dying-mother-kept-promise-return.html

Amazing story, and very revealing on many levels.

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that while he was a POW, Douglas Bader was taken to an airfield and allowed to fly a German fighter providing he gave his word that he wouldn't bugger off home.

Hadn't heard that one, sounds like a more modern version of the parole granted to officers in earlier wars. A promise not to escape or to take up arms and they could enjoy pretty much freedom, relying on their honour to keep them from legging it.

Did like the story of him having new legs airdropped to him, and the Germans allowing it - bet they checked well for hidden compartments though.

[david3103]

I must have read 'Reach for the Sky' half a dozen times in my teens. I don't recall the flying a. German plane story, but he did have legs air-dropped and did make a proper nuisance of himself as a PoW.

I need to find a copy and read it again

[celtic]

Found this.

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Gee thanks.

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A salvage team is attempting to right the Costa Concordia today. I hope there is good TV coverage, I will be glued to it.

I can quite understand why stories about the Titanic are so popular, everything about the Concordia fascinates me, the engineering aspect, the human aspect, the sheer drama of it all. It's like a big budget disaster movie that's happening for real. 

I just think it's incredible that something so huge,  (twice as big as the Titanic) so expensive and so important could be lost so easily.

Lets not forget that a cruise ship is a vast floating life support system for thousands of people. An aircraft carries a tiny fraction of the number, and yet has so many fail safe devices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24098159

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For some reason the link is wrong. I'll fix it when I get on to my laptop.

[tikay]

For some reason the link is wrong. I'll fix it when I get on to my laptop.

Try this.....


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24104741

It includes LIVE footage of the recovery, but no commentary.

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Thanks Tony.

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This is a really educational dog programme. Watch it on catchup.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=the%20wonder%20of%20dogs

[tikay]

I don't know where or how to find it on your Diary Tom, but I was thinking today about when you got your new place, "mobile" or whatever the correct wordy is.

I vividly remember the photo where you were trying to get the thing though your gate.

How long you had it now? Has it met expectations? Any probs with it? What sort of lifespan will it have?

Presumably, they depreciate (financially) pretty bad?

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I don't know where or how to find it on your Diary Tom, but I was thinking today about when you got your new place, "mobile" or whatever the correct wordy is.

I vividly remember the photo where you were trying to get the thing though your gate.

How long you had it now? Has it met expectations? Any probs with it? What sort of lifespan will it have?

Presumably, they depreciate (financially) pretty bad?

Well I'm grateful for your attempt to kick-start my sporadic, (some might say moribund) diary.

I'm not sure if you are referring to the mobile/chalet I had when I first moved here almost 13 years ago, or the one that I replaced it with almost 10 years later when I got my planning permission.

No matter. I'll cobble an answer together when I get a minute.


Today, I have mostly been a lumberjack, so I'm OK.