The Retirement Thread

[Poacher]

My new phone (Samsung S25+ has a good camera. This photo is on the feeder, looking through my patio door.
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Not earth shattering as I am just getting used to it.

Jeez, that's so detailed you can even tell it's a male Great Tit!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Not if she is on Vodafone she won't. 😁

ours are via ASDA so it'll be ok


errr - well maybe not apparently!

maybe the pub wifi will work -
except that she would have to connect to it
and guess who normally does that

which is a problem because I was planning to delay my dinner until after she gets back
and if she can;t get home my dinner will be late

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just been reading the Echo
someone was renovating a house and found something that looked like a bomb - which is not impossible in Liverpool
apparently we imported a lot from Germany some time ago

anyway - this is his quote
"At first we didn't know what it said, I thought it looked like a bomb but Tim was saying 'no, it's not a bomb' and started hitting it with a hammer. He was saying 'see, it's not exploding.'

Yup - these people actually exist

 

[Dave7]

Just enjoyed turkey burgers, new potatoes, green beand and thick gravy......yum yum.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just been reading the Echo
someone was renovating a house and found something that looked like a bomb - which is not impossible in Liverpool
apparently we imported a lot from Germany some time ago

anyway - this is his quote
"At first we didn't know what it said, I thought it looked like a bomb but Tim was saying 'no, it's not a bomb' and started hitting it with a hammer. He was saying 'see, it's not exploding.'

Yup - these people actually exist

Little story

Whwn my Dad was an armourer in WW2 he was a Corporal
i.e not actually in charge but the one who knew what needed doing

anyway they were putting some bombs in a plane (probably a Stirling) and some of then were defective
time was short (as was the Stirling - sorry) and the Sergeant just truned round to a random airman/armourer and told him to head off to the bomb dump and get x replacement bombs


my Dad said he heard this but was busy so didn;t take much notice

the sergeant then swore loudly and looked at my Dad and said
"Was that xxx??"
My Dad looked around and confirmed it

now xxx was the son of a VERY high ranking officer in the RAF
and if his sone was a junior airman and severl years service in wartime to can probably guess his level of ability
i.e. he was a moron and his Dad got him somewhere safe and where someone like a Sergeant could make sure he didn;t do any damage
and this Sergeant had just sent him into a bomb dump!!!


anyway - he yelled "**** - Price - run like hell and make sure he isn;t doing anything stupid"
(Price is my name - and, before anyone say anything, therefore mine!!)

my Dad legged it to the bomb dump and got there a while after the moron who was on a bomb truck

and found him happily loading up some bombs
the correct size and shape of bombs

but prettier because they had red veins over them

the red veins were something everyone (well almost everyone) knew about
it meant they were booby trap bombs designed to drop, land and then a trembler was activated to make it explode when moved even a little bit

and they were kept in a VERY well signed seperate - very seperate - part of the bomb dump


my Dad said he grabbed hold of the bloke and dragged him out leaving the bomb truck behind
then got a new one and loaded the correct bombs


He told me this over a few pints when we went to the RIAT air show at the very same base (Fairford) - we went there every year

anyway - end of story

 

[Dave7]

Just been reading the Echo
someone was renovating a house and found something that looked like a bomb - which is not impossible in Liverpool
apparently we imported a lot from Germany some time ago

anyway - this is his quote
"At first we didn't know what it said, I thought it looked like a bomb but Tim was saying 'no, it's not a bomb' and started hitting it with a hammer. He was saying 'see, it's not exploding.'

Yup - these people actually exist

My Bro wants to know if they were on day release ?

 

[classic33]

Just been reading the Echo
someone was renovating a house and found something that looked like a bomb - which is not impossible in Liverpool
apparently we imported a lot from Germany some time ago

anyway - this is his quote
"At first we didn't know what it said, I thought it looked like a bomb but Tim was saying 'no, it's not a bomb' and started hitting it with a hammer. He was saying 'see, it's not exploding.'

Yup - these people actually exist

Is your link to going to the correct bomb find story. I got one from July this year.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Is your link to going to the correct bomb find story. I got one from July this year.

WHAT??

we are supposed to post things to correct threads???

someone should have said!

 

[classic33]

WHAT??

we are supposed to post things to correct threads???

someone should have said!

I thought you meant someone had found another, and forgot about the previous one.
You know what some folk are like.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I thought you meant someone had found another, and forgot about the previous one.
You know what some folk are like.

Yeah - although I have accidentally posted stuff to totally the wrong thread a few times lately so ....

 

[Drago]

I bed with 2 labradors keeping me warm.

 

[Mike Ayling]

cuI've just taken down the tomato plants and the plants are now in the green bin for collection on Saturday. I now have a couple of pounds of green tomatoes to ripen off indoors. I don't think they will do much outside now.
It's been a very good growing year, both the Tom's and the beans did very well.

Just put my tomato seedlings in yesterday here down unda