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HEAR HEAR KEN,BITE THE BULLET RAY,..

Now come on Ray, don't be taking umbrage because you spot was deleted. It has happened to us before and probably will again, you just have to use more poetically descriptive language when describing the more sensitive or is that sensual,antics of our former colleagues. As it goes, it is quite stimulating to the senses trying to come up with that which won't offend but adequately achieves the end descriptive result.
Keep the flag flying for the oldies and keep contributing!

You are lucky Ken where I was Born there is just a Bramble Bush and a bit further North in Spennymore the County of Durham,
To the Management Well Done to extract a entry.

Ray, I think that might be PRESTWICK Airport, Prestwich is where I was born, 4 miles north of Manchester. There is a blue plaque on the house where I as born, but sadly, no airport!

Thats naughty Ray I knew the girl but did not want to name her, was Ivor on the same course as you, or was this much later, I never thought of Ivor of a very good Met man, a little untidy.
I bet that Burberry stood up on its own.

Yes Ken it was Ivor Batey, he was at the School when I was Courting my ex, I am trying to think of who he looked like, That chap in Treasure Island, Ivor use to carry his Burberry around with him in all weathers, The wren was a Met Wren, I mmet him again at Admiralty where we use to have the office run ashore starting at the Chandos took the Bar Maid with us, My Wife Tricia was not impressed when we staggered in the very late hour, after that we stayed at Admiralty after the run. I met him again in Terror, not sure what Ship he was on . we spent our time in a building playing with a ball of paper, a bit like the old days at the school. Remembered who he looked like : Robert Newton, Heard he joined civvy Met.
I remember the days when we use to see how fast we could draw a chart, around 10 minutes I think,

Johnny, I assume you mean Ivor Batey , Ivor was on course at RNSOM Culdrose when I was there and as I remember it, his then girlfriend, a Wren of what branch I know not, was extremely partial to many sessions per day working out with whatever equipment Ivor had.
Now Ivor could never by any stretch of the imagination be classed as the Clark Gable type, so one can only assume that he was extremely skilled in demonstrating how the equipment should be used.
It's a long time ago now so I suppose we will never know!

Sorry it seems I must of gone into the jungle twice,

Ray you must of joined the Hermes after me when we returned home, I of course remember many runs ashore to Bugie Street, I was also Billeted at Terror , I managed to join a Expedition into the Jungle.
We were supposed to walk into the as far into the Jungle as we could Jungle as far as possible, that did not happen, as soon as we got out of sight of terror, we took Taxis to a waterfall set up camp there and arranged for Taxis to return with more Beer a week later, it was a great spot which turned out to be a place where the Malay Indians came to Bathe and mumble prayers, we just mumbled after the ale.
I also did a stint with Ivor atey where did nothing in a building off the camp never quite worked out what our job was, but great times away from the Hermes.

Go on then, I'll be next. Went out for a meal with a buddy of mine last week, and it transpires that he spent 30 years on the RFA's. So I showed him some photos of doing a RAS on the Hermes and he not only named the RFAs in the photo, but Tidespring was one of them that he was on at the time! He also knew all there was to know about Bugie Street, Nee Soon and HMS Terror, so I knew he was telling the truth....