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mjheathcote

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Being in my very early 50's, I was born only 22 years after WW2, but to most was generations ago.
Then you remember the Falklands war in my teens, that was 36 years ago!
Only 4 years later I bought my Stag, now 32 years ago, how did that happen?
It really brings it home when I deal with tradesmen at work, in their 30's, and was talking about electric drills (like you do), and it dawned on me that my Black & Decker pistol drill that I still use at home was older than any of them!
Oh well!
 
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mjheathcote said:
Really brings it home when I deal with tradesmen at work, in their 30's, and was talking about electric drills (like you do), and it dawned on me that my Black & Decker pistol drill that I still use at home was older than any of them!
Oh well!
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Works both ways sometimes - when I was still shooting the occasional hoop, and a young upstart was getting a bit lippy, pointing out the laces in my shoes were older than him seemed to throw him off a bit. That and the odd stray elbow now & again. The benefit of wisdom :smile:
 
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mjheathcote said:
Being in my very early 50's, I was born only 22 years after WW2, but to most was generations ago.
Then you remember the Falklands war in my teens, that was 36 years ago!
Only 4 years later I bought my Stag, now 32 years ago, how did that happen?
It really brings it home when I deal with tradesmen at work, in their 30's, and was talking about electric drills (like you do), and it dawned on me that my Black & Decker pistol drill that I still use at home was older than any of them!
Oh well!
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I’m 57, and I remember back in the early 70’s, the old bloke opposite, Ned, was gassed in WW1, now I;d loved to have chatted with him if he wanted to talk about it but back then he was just an old bloke we shyed away from.

All those memories, gone because of ignorance...
 
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Navcorr said:
Works both ways sometimes - when I was still shooting the occasional hoop, and a young upstart was getting a bit lippy, pointing out the laces in my shoes were older than him seemed to throw him off a bit. That and the odd stray elbow now & again. The benefit of wisdom :smile:
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It’s like when I tune my guitar by ear, kids now strap on a tuner or a string-winder gadget, I do mine with REM’s Cuyahoga bass line in my head, and it’s ‘how did you do that?’...
 
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Wanderer said:
I’m 57, and I remember back in the early 70’s, the old bloke opposite, Ned, was gassed in WW1, now I;d loved to have chatted with him if he wanted to talk about it but back then he was just an old bloke we shyed away from.

All those memories, gone because of ignorance...
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A proper hero, not like these fanny's we have gracing the earth now, that's not directed to our own armed forces BTW, but to the shameful no talent so called celebrities infecting good people's lives. I bought a lot of and read a lot of a magazine called Flypast, and some of the stories in those were truly heroic, modern youngsters don't have a clue... They just want to know who's in the BB house or Jungle this year...
 
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And if you can act as Thick as Joey Essex and coin in a few million. D1ckheads.
 
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Spent many an evening visiting and talking with my Grand parents, alas all passed away in recent years.
My Grandfather was a farmer, and during the war was in the Home Guard. He used to listen to the war news on a cats whisker radio placed in the bottom of a milk churn to amplify the volume.
When he was courting my Grandmother, he used to borrow his fathers Bullnose Morris, drive to see my Grandmother, on arrival (winter time), he then drained the hot coolant into a milk churn, wrap it up in a blanket to keep it from freezing, then before driving home, pour it back in!!
Fortunately my dad was into cine film and I have loads of film (now on dvd) from the early 60's of my Grand parents working on the farm, including holiday of my parents before they were even married, driving to Italy with friends with a tent on the roof of their Austin A35!
My dad continued through to the modern video age so have plenty of footage of myself and my sister growing up, much to the amusement of my kids today.
I myself have always taken plenty of video as a result, not for now, but to enjoy and laugh at many years later, so much more alive than normal pictures.
 
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mjheathcote said:
Spent many an evening visiting and talking with my Grand parents, alas all passed away in recent years.
My Grandfather was a farmer, and during the war was in the Home Guard. He used to listen to the war news on a cats whisker radio placed in the bottom of a milk churn to amplify the volume.
When he was courting my Grandmother, he used to borrow his fathers Bullnose Morris, drive to see my Grandmother, on arrival (winter time), he then drained the hot coolant into a milk churn, wrap it up in a blanket to keep it from freezing, then before driving home, pour it back in!!
Fortunately my dad was into cine film and I have loads of film (now on dvd) from the early 60's of my Grand parents working on the farm, including holiday of my parents before they were even married, driving to Italy with friends with a tent on the roof of their Austin A35!
My dad continued through to the modern video age so have plenty of footage of myself and my sister growing up, much to the amusement of my kids today.
I myself have always taken plenty of video as a result, not for now, but to enjoy and laugh at many years later, so much more alive than normal pictures.
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That's awesome. It's what it's all about ;)
 
mjheathcote

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Lozzer said:
That's awesome. It's what it's all about ;)
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My wife's Grandfather is still alive well into his 90's, living alone, his choice, his wife passed away a few years ago.
He was a commander in the Navy during WW2, but will never talk about it.
Post war being a chemist he and family moved to the US in the 50's and he invented gas packaging working for Metal Box, but returned home after a few years.
Was very successful in business, to a point in the 70's that he was driving new Astons, not because he was into nice cars, because his employees said it was what he should be driving!
My wife recalls as a small girl when visiting spending the afternoon sticking labels onto brown bottles.
He was already 'retired' in his 70's when I first met him, but was still dabbling in chemicals in his lab at the back of his garage.
It wasn't until his mid 80's he packed it in totally, and when the news came out, several of his customers, mostly University research facilities placed big orders, for whatever he was mixing no other business was prepared to do, due to the H&S risks involved!!
He has never had any major health issues, and we think he must be semi mummified!
 
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mjheathcote said:
Being in my very early 50's, I was born only 22 years after WW2, but to most was generations ago.
Then you remember the Falklands war in my teens, that was 36 years ago!
Only 4 years later I bought my Stag, now 32 years ago, how did that happen?
It really brings it home when I deal with tradesmen at work, in their 30's, and was talking about electric drills (like you do), and it dawned on me that my Black & Decker pistol drill that I still use at home was older than any of them!
Oh well!
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I have a pair of shoes older than you, so what the **** should I expect you to know? </The Finn>

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
 
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With the sad death of the Queens Of Soul, I vividly remember hearing her singing "I Say A Little Pray" as a teenager in 68 on Sunday afternoon BBC radio in the link up with BFBS stations around the world. That seems like yesterday.
 
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