Sabrejet Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4701 Posted April 30, 2012 Wow... that was quite a scrap heap Ken! The ground in that field would probably send your metal detector into orbit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4702 Posted April 30, 2012 Ken, I haven't been on the forum all weekend. I have missed some more of your great posts! That is too cool that you can go metal detecting in your neighbor's yard. I can also see why you have been busy at your own house. Thanks so much for the great posts once again! .....Kat Hi Kat, welcome home , thanks for the thoughts on the posts, yep this week is busy preparing and building a BBQ shack, I will probably add some photo's when it gets underway. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4703 Posted April 30, 2012 this week is busy preparing and building a BBQ shack, I will probably add some photo's when it gets underway. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 No need to rush, Ken... Another 5 weeks till we arrive to check it out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4704 Posted April 30, 2012 Wow... that was quite a scrap heap Ken! The ground in that field would probably send your metal detector into orbit!! Hi Ian, there were other fields again not far from this one which had all the abandoned German tanks assembled in it, not there now though :crying: . http://www.network54.com/Forum/571595/thre...ollection+Point ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4705 Posted April 30, 2012 No need to rush, Ken...Another 5 weeks till we arrive to check it out... Damn, " when the going gets tough, Johans not even arriving for five weeks " ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4706 Posted April 30, 2012 Hello Kat...nice to see you back in the fold again! :thumbsup: Ian I told you Not to worry Ian! It's alway Kat's norm, to hide from the forum When she wants men to feel her rejection. She plays helpless and shy, with that wounded look in her eye :crying: Then swoops down for the best in their collection! :pinch: .......... (USMC Qualification Badges, that is!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4707 Posted April 30, 2012 I told you Not to worry Ian! It's alway Kat's norm, to hide from the forum When she wants men to feel her rejection. She plays helpless and shy, with that wounded look in her eye :crying: Then swoops down for the best in their collection! :pinch: .......... (USMC Qualification Badges, that is!) Ken...I think we'll appoint you the forum's honorary Poet Laureate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4708 Posted April 30, 2012 Ken...I think we'll appoint you the forum's honorary Poet Laureate! I agree but it was JS not Ken who is our poet. Ken is our photographer. :thumbsup: We have so MANY different talents on this forum. .....Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4709 Posted April 30, 2012 .......... (USMC Qualification Badges, that is!) I haven't gotten one in a LONG time. :crying: I am having major withdrawal symptoms.... ....Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4710 Posted April 30, 2012 Ken...I think we'll appoint you the forum's honorary Poet Laureate! Ian. twas not I, that the forum poet laureate should be twas not I, that wrote about the maiden fair twas not I, that should gain your favor here twas not I, that be so bold to pass the verse you mention twas I however that wrote this diatribe so poor and twas JS that the poet laureate should be so sure. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4711 Posted April 30, 2012 We have so MANY different talents on this forum. .....Kat Kat, your right, but some of them should best be forgotten. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4712 Posted April 30, 2012 Kat, your right, but some of them should best be forgotten.ken I think I may have been insulted?? ........ :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4713 Posted April 30, 2012 Ian. twas not I, that the forum poet laureate should be twas not I, that wrote about the maiden fair twas not I, that should gain your favor here twas not I, that be so bold to pass the verse you mention twas I however that wrote this diatribe so poor and twas JS that the poet laureate should be so sure. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 . Ken (aka the Bard of the Black Country)...I challenge you to complete this Limerick by the morning! :thumbsup: There was a collector named Ken Who...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4714 Posted April 30, 2012 I think I may have been insulted?? ........ :w00t: Hi JS, no it was not intended that you were insulted :thumbsup: , it was directed at Kat's mention of ' many different ' talents on the forum :w00t: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted April 30, 2012 Share #4715 Posted April 30, 2012 Ken (aka the Bard of the Black Country)...I challenge you to complete this Limerick by the morning! :thumbsup: There was a collector named Ken Who...... Ian. there was a young collector named Ken who kept his collection in a den the den's now depleted, and the collection secreted in a bunker in Berlin instead. ' Why wait till morning will nine minutes do instead '. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted May 1, 2012 Share #4716 Posted May 1, 2012 Ian. there was a young collector named Ken who kept his collection in a den the den's now depleted, and the collection secreted in a bunker in Berlin instead. ' Why wait till morning will nine minutes do instead '. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 30 April 2012 :bravo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted May 1, 2012 Share #4717 Posted May 1, 2012 A collector named "Norman. D. Landing", Whose collection's considered outstanding, Moved the whole lot to France, All boxed up in advance With no need to consider re-branding! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted May 1, 2012 Share #4718 Posted May 1, 2012 Very good, Ian? Now.....we're only missing a pub to share them in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted May 1, 2012 Share #4719 Posted May 1, 2012 Very good, Ian?Now.....we're only missing a pub to share them in!! Three nice ones within a half-mile of here...."The Star"..."The Three Horseshoes" and "The Cross Keys". Take your pick...the drinks are on me. Proper beer, none of that Euro-fizz or "Lite" rubbish! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Flibble Posted May 11, 2012 Share #4720 Posted May 11, 2012 *chuckles at the limerics* I see you haven't lost your touch, Ken! 't Was during the 2006 tour when the General regaled me and my friends with a bawdy edition of 'Funiculi Funicula' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4721 Posted May 14, 2012 *chuckles at the limerics* I see you haven't lost your touch, Ken! 't Was during the 2006 tour when the General regaled me and my friends with a bawdy edition of 'Funiculi Funicula' Hi Rick, well I can see my operatic singing overture has lingered in your mind pity for you maybe, that I will not be performing any encores this autumn. :crying: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4722 Posted May 14, 2012 Normandy ' Barn ' finds ............. Well I have been off line for several day's due to friends visiting, which entails dining, entertaining, visiting sights, visiting other friends, street markets, museums, beaches etc etc. As we had been doing all the above on an endless stream and burning the candle at both ends with late nights and early mornings we took a break yesterday Sunday 13th and visited an annual street flea market that most town's have here in France. Many people scoff at the mention of found in a barn in Normandy, shown above is just such an item, three metal containers each extremely rusty and containing eight fired British 25 pounder rounds. Other items that we saw and bought I am sorry to say that I forgot to take any shots of, but will do that tomorrow and post. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 May 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4723 Posted May 14, 2012 Normandy ' abandoned ' finds ............. Sunday 13th May myself and two friends visited one of the annual street flea market's that most town's and villages have here in France, on the outskirts of the village we found the abandoned railway station, note some of the bullet strikes on the red brickwork, the plastered area's between the windows and brickwork obviously having been replastered post war. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 May 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4724 Posted May 14, 2012 Normandy ' Then & Now ' ............. Comparision photo's of a group of German soldiers stood outside the church in St Mere Eglise, the photo would appear to have been taken before the invasion on June 6th. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 May 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4725 Posted May 14, 2012 Usually there are a few minor changes in the before and after shots but this one looks unchanged. Even the stained glass window seems the same. Maybe a coat of paint and that's it. I'm thinking those guys in the then photo were gone pretty quick after June 6. That was their scheduled moving day. Great photos as always Ken. Good to hear you have been having fun. Since you hadn't been around I thought maybe you finally decided to move to an old age retirement home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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