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Thanks Spud...the heat means sun, solar panels + batteries mean no electric bills even running aircon and charging car batteries, regret memory fades remembering you at Whale Island. Perhaps 'cause I was not programmed then to live past 75!!! |
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For Arthur and Co : Now that I realise I am not in a time warp thank you and yours for recovering the Guestbook. It may have disadvantages for gobeens like me when (if) I read the tripe I offered nearly 10 years ago (but it was factual) - but with ano-domini I probably can claim to be 'forgetful' (- I have got beyond the stage of getting to the top of the stairs and wondering why I climbed up ! now I find myself at the foot of the stairs asking myself if I am going up or have I just come down !). Finally Confucius did not say ... |
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Just a note on Mac Cutting, I don't remember him being at the Victory reunion, which was arranged jointly by me as CO and Frank Nowosielski, who was at the time my First Lieutenant, and we could not have done it without the help of Sandy Jones who was at the BBC and go the message out on all local radio in UK! Where was social media when you needed it, |
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Someone mentioned Cricket, I was and still am a lover of the Game, Remember a few games at Culdrose, also played a lot of Football for the Various Ships, I don't think I remember Ray playing Cricket, I know Ken played at Culdrose,, I often wondered why sporting activities of a individual was never mentioned on a History sheet. |
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Arthur thanks for that of course it was Ian Plackett I was thinking of. I am sure he will be mightyly p****d off that I did not remember that he was at AFS at that time. |
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When I was an Instructor at Culdrose I taught a Wren called Travis Jones, a lovely girl who had joined as an Officer Wren entrant. She had to qualify as a Met 3 before moving on. You will be able to find her on a course of Wrens amongst the photos on this website - around 1970. My eyesight is not good enough to find her. She achieved 99% a record while I was there. Perhaps Spud can dig a bit and find out what became of her. |
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…. afterthought – remembered one of the wrens on my course 2/1962 was commissioned but can’t remember which one of the four in the back row – maybe Meg (Murray) knows ? |
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In response to Ray and needing excuse not to weed the patio (plus cricket and Ascot on radio) herewith my pennyworth - In no particular order – I suspect that many more wrens were commissioned because there was no direct entry route - they joined as wren rating then commissioned when qualified and passed Admiralty Interview Board. If I have erred in my list I apologise but there is really no way to track so I have trawled the course photos in the hope they would jog my memory. In going through the photos I noticed (unrelated to above) a pic of David Philpot in Course No 1/79 dressed as a four ring Captain but in all subsequent phots dressed as a Commander ! (…. wonder - did he fail the ‘frothy’ coffee making test … !!!) Finally - a bit more for this rainy day …. Confucius did Not say …… Man who wants pretty nurse must be patient. End |
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