cutiger83 Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5351 Posted September 20, 2012 I expect something more like this... My eyes! My eyes! :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5352 Posted September 20, 2012 He probably found some young sweet thing on the beach and giving her the famous General tour. R Now this I believe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5353 Posted September 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5354 Posted September 20, 2012 don't ask and sincerely don't tell. gives a new meaning to the term "gray water"Tom Bowers Or....it that GAY water? :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5355 Posted September 20, 2012 All we need now is a sunset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5356 Posted September 20, 2012 That two wheel hotub picture aint right......... :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5357 Posted September 20, 2012 That two wheel hotub picture aint right......... :pinch: At least it demonstrates the absolute water-tightness of the basic design! IIRC, Ken once told me of an instance whereby an outboard motor was attached to a Jeep trailer and it served as an erstaz motor-boat! Can't get more water-tight than that! :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.T. Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5358 Posted September 20, 2012 Do you think maybe Ken has been kidnapped and we somehow missed the ransom demand? If so I've got a buck 50 I can kick in. Well, it is wine harvesting season right now, he might be rather busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 20, 2012 Share #5359 Posted September 20, 2012 Pat...that's the kind of contraption Ken would knock up. He's very inventive like that! Are you familiar with the work of the great British eccentric, Heath Robinson? (Google him!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5360 Posted September 21, 2012 Do you think maybe Ken has been kidnapped and we somehow missed the ransom demand? If so I've got a buck 50 I can kick in. Hi Craig, well the kidnapper's could wait any longer for the ransom to be raised so they let me go, appears there was some reticence from the forum members to raise more than the buck-fifty that you offered yourself. I did get a private email from a concerned forum member saying that it might be time that I dropped into the reports again as there were some weird posts being made in my absence, so thanks to all the members that added posts both positive and possible weird ones. I have been absent due to spending some family time together, relatives are getting older and also sadly some have some serious health issues to deal with. Just two days ago my brother had his heart stopped and re-started to correct an irregular beat, and his pace-maker recalibrated as well. However on the positve side my sister passed onto me two folding wooden chairs that belonged to our parents, she thought that I would make better use of them with having more visitors calling through or possibly staying with me. As we exchanged the chairs between our vehicles I pointed out to my sister something that she had not spotted before that they are dated 1942 and in the reign of King George VI. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5361 Posted September 21, 2012 I have been absent due to spending some family time together, relatives are getting older and also sadly some have some serious health issues to deal with. However on the positve side my sister passed onto me two folding wooden chairs that belonged to our parents, she thought that I would make better use of them with having more visitors calling through or possibly staying with me. As we exchanged the chairs between our vehicles I pointed out to my sister something that she had not spotted before that they are dated 1942 and in the reign of King George VI followed by the symbol of a crown. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5362 Posted September 21, 2012 Welcome back into the fold Ken! We kept it warm for you whilst you were away! I remember chairs like that from my school-days back in the 50s. Something of a design classic. You can still buy similar ones today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LtRGFRANK Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5363 Posted September 21, 2012 welcome back. are they civilian chairs since their dated or of military origin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5364 Posted September 21, 2012 Welcome back into the fold Ken! We kept it warm for you whilst you were away! I remember chairs like that from my school-days back in the 50s. Something of a design classic. You can still buy similar ones today. Hi Ian, case of while the cat's away the mouse will play, eh ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5365 Posted September 21, 2012 Ken is back!!!! All is right in the forum world once again!!! You were greatly missed! So sorry to hear about your brother. I hope all will be well with him. Family is the greatest treasure. ....Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5366 Posted September 21, 2012 welcome back. are they civilian chairs since their dated or of military origin? Hi Robert, being dated 1942 and marked with GR VI then I believe them to be military issue or the very least British government issue, civilan used ones would not have had reference to the ' crown ' as in GR VI. Forgot to mention that they are also stamped with the manufacturers name R.H. Barker & Son As Ian related in the mail above it's a very popular British design and civilian used pre and post WWII without any markings. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5367 Posted September 21, 2012 Ken is back!!!! All is right in the forum world once again!!! You were greatly missed! So sorry to hear about your brother. I hope all will be well with him. Family is the greatest treasure. ....Kat Hi Kat, thanks for the welcome ' home ' and thanks for your thoughts for my brother. I also saw my aunt Julie who farmed during WWII, whilst her husband my uncle Jack was an RSM in the Royal Artillery and fought a retreat to Dunkirk with his unit. One of his friends in the unit was captured and became a prisoner of war for over four years, uncle Jack asked his younger sister to write to this man named Ken Thomas to keep his spirits up in the prison camp which she did for four years and they married after he was liberated at the war's end. Aunt Julie gave me these two WWI shell fuses which belonged to my uncle Jack, sadly aunt Julie is terminally ill. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5368 Posted September 21, 2012 during WWII and post WWII my uncle Jack and aunt Julie were friends with the Wedgwood family who owned the Wedgwood pottery manufacturers. As a special gift to my uncle they made him a one-off silhouette of his head and shoulders as he was during WWII, a Regimental Sergeant Major. For people not familiar with Wedgwood work, the silhouette is a raised plaster relief work and synonymous with all of Wedgwood bowls, vase and dish collections Seen below my uncle's frame is one of their more famous piece's of work the silhouette of Winston Churchill. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LtRGFRANK Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5369 Posted September 21, 2012 during WWII and post WWII my uncle Jack and aunt Julie were friends with the Wedgwood family who owned the Wedgwood pottery manufacturers. As a special gift to my uncle they made him a one-off silhouette of his head and shoulders as he was during WWII, a Regimental Sergeant Major. Seen below my uncle's frame is one of their more famous piece's of work the silhouette of Winston Churchill. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 now thats neat. one of a kind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5370 Posted September 21, 2012 now thats neat. one of a kind I agree! That is very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5371 Posted September 21, 2012 Welcome back into the fold Ken! We kept it warm for you whilst you were away! I remember chairs like that from my school-days back in the 50s. Something of a design classic. You can still buy similar ones today. Im sure you remember the school marms ruler as well.......... Oh...and welcome back General.Nice to see your new finds and those fuzes remind me of a prom date I had once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5372 Posted September 21, 2012 now thats neat. one of a kind I agree! That is very cool! Hi Robert & Kat, thanks for your appreciation of the Wedgwood plaque, here's the Wiki link to the Wedgwood factory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgwood ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5373 Posted September 21, 2012 Love the "cameo" of Winnie...one of my all time heroes! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5374 Posted September 21, 2012 Im sure you remember the school marms ruler as well.......... Oh...and welcome back General.Nice to see your new finds and those fuzes remind me of a prom date I had once Hi Ron, thanks for the welcome back, however I think Kat will be on your tail for that erotic connection of the fuzes and a prom date ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 21 September 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 21, 2012 Share #5375 Posted September 21, 2012 I think Ron was alluding to these / this!? :naughty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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