Umm - and another thing...
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Hope it's all settling down nicely, if it helps I was happier, and more successful, when I left, however ignoble my departure!
BTW happy birthday!!
BTW happy birthday!!
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"If you cannot have what you want, then learn to want what you have"
Anon or The Guru or someone worthy like that.
Wasn't DR.
Definitely not.
"If you cannot have what you want, then learn to want what you have"
Anon or The Guru or someone worthy like that.
Wasn't DR.
Definitely not.
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yes, 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!' (hope you're enjoying your fortnum and mason's hamper, lol ) xx
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Not everyone loves the place ( reading what is written here makes that hard to believe). So it's better to start afresh in the real world. Best of luck.
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Good luck! Hope it proves to be the best decision for you all.
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Blimey - secret agents went there (or live there??) as well...007 wrote:Not everyone loves the place ( reading what is written here makes that hard to believe). So it's better to start afresh in the real world. Best of luck.
Welcome and thank you for that.
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Bless you all...
Birthday spent in the Brecon Beacons and yes, we did enjoy the hamper which had a pleasing bias to cake, tea and chocolate. How did they know??
DS spent the last three days of term at his preferred school and has to date encountered much kindness from many, not least from the other children. He has rediscovered old friends (one boy kept repeating - "I was at pre-school with him!") and been treated well by all. However, he is a bit astonished by the fact that pupils don't stay in their seats, often don't do the work that is set (in some cases preferring to play on mobile phones instead) and regularly get sent out of the room for poor behaviour. Bit of a culture shock to say the least.
We have chosen options which were blocked in such a way that it was impossible to do a foreign language with a humanity. Neither are compulsory, which I think is appalling, but totally normal.
Very mixed feelings... I do want him to be happy but not at any cost. Being a parent is just one long balancing act!!
Birthday spent in the Brecon Beacons and yes, we did enjoy the hamper which had a pleasing bias to cake, tea and chocolate. How did they know??
DS spent the last three days of term at his preferred school and has to date encountered much kindness from many, not least from the other children. He has rediscovered old friends (one boy kept repeating - "I was at pre-school with him!") and been treated well by all. However, he is a bit astonished by the fact that pupils don't stay in their seats, often don't do the work that is set (in some cases preferring to play on mobile phones instead) and regularly get sent out of the room for poor behaviour. Bit of a culture shock to say the least.
We have chosen options which were blocked in such a way that it was impossible to do a foreign language with a humanity. Neither are compulsory, which I think is appalling, but totally normal.
Very mixed feelings... I do want him to be happy but not at any cost. Being a parent is just one long balancing act!!
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Great news HM !
I trust you were well looked after by any trainee S.A.S guys you encountered on the Becon Beacons !
I trust you were well looked after by any trainee S.A.S guys you encountered on the Becon Beacons !
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J.R. wrote:Great news HM !
I trust you were well looked after by any trainee S.A.S guys you encountered on the Becon Beacons !
Yeugh. Memories of a training course on the Breckon Beacon tops in Feb about 1989 when it was cold enough to freeze (whatever you don't want frozen). Midnight, in a tent, with the wind howling and the snow pushing the tent sides in. Muggins starts to feel a bit warm. The damp seeped out through an inner sleeping bag, then a 4 season bag, then an outer survival sac until it puddled on the groundsheet and you should smell it from 100 paces. Muggins had a malaria attack and had forgotten to take emergency pills
Nasty - I was off work for 3 weeks.
At least HM and DS had some home comforts!
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Military "Exercises" ------- the Winter of February 1946, saw me stripped of everything except underwear, dressed in canvas jacket,trousers and boots and socks.
We were told we were "Escaped Prisoners" and turned out on Dartmoor, to fend for ourselves, and get to a Map reference, where we would get another --- and so on, for a WEEk !
This was the Artist's Rifles' idea of "Fun" ----- those who didn't survive, or were re-captured, were returned to their Units,--- as unfit for "Special Duties" !
I survived === by being quite a good Poacher, and knowing what was edible in the countryside !!!
I hasten to add that none of this was in the CH Curriculum ====== but Wartime country lads learn these things !!
We were told we were "Escaped Prisoners" and turned out on Dartmoor, to fend for ourselves, and get to a Map reference, where we would get another --- and so on, for a WEEk !
This was the Artist's Rifles' idea of "Fun" ----- those who didn't survive, or were re-captured, were returned to their Units,--- as unfit for "Special Duties" !
I survived === by being quite a good Poacher, and knowing what was edible in the countryside !!!
I hasten to add that none of this was in the CH Curriculum ====== but Wartime country lads learn these things !!
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NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:Military "Exercises" ------- the Winter of February 1946, saw me stripped of everything except underwear, dressed in canvas jacket,trousers and boots and socks.
We were told we were "Escaped Prisoners" and turned out on Dartmoor, to fend for ourselves, and get to a Map reference, where we would get another --- and so on, for a WEEk !
This was the Artist's Rifles' idea of "Fun" ----- those who didn't survive, or were re-captured, were returned to their Units,--- as unfit for "Special Duties" !
I survived === by being quite a good Poacher, and knowing what was edible in the countryside !!!
I hasten to add that none of this was in the CH Curriculum ====== but Wartime country lads learn these things !!
I an very reliably informed that the only living, moving thing Special Services are trained NEVER to eat, are rats.
Something to do with disease, my 'secret-squirrel' tells me.
John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.
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what secret squirrel? it is all in the 1962 book King Rat by James Clavell.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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englishangel wrote:what secret squirrel? it is all in the 1962 book King Rat by James Clavell.
Ho=Ho. Great film and book.
No real secret - One of my cousins. Military man for 21 years.
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I shall get into trouble AGAIN -----Hedgehogs (Not in February !) Squirrels, most Birds (cunning trap -- 3 bricks -- 1 balnced with fork stick ! ) and the, ever available, snared Rabbit.
I believe the "Statute of Limitations" excuses me from roosting Pheasants, tickled Trout etc . !
I believe the "Statute of Limitations" excuses me from roosting Pheasants, tickled Trout etc . !
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NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:I shall get into trouble AGAIN -----Hedgehogs (Not in February !) Squirrels, most Birds (cunning trap -- 3 bricks -- 1 balnced with fork stick ! ) and the, ever available, snared Rabbit.
I believe the "Statute of Limitations" excuses me from roosting Pheasants, tickled Trout etc . !
Have you been on the 'Waccy-Baccy' again, Neill ?
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Can I plead the 5th Amendment ?
Probably not, in the UK !!!
(in answeere to the question --- not for a VERY long time !!)
Probably not, in the UK !!!
(in answeere to the question --- not for a VERY long time !!)