General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6401 Posted March 19, 2013 WOW! I have been following this thread for a long time and I could not imagine reading it from beginning to end all at once. I probably need to go back and do it again because I have forgotten quite a bit! This thread is one of my favorites on the forum! Ken has spent a LOT of time keeping us informed with his reports from Normandy. ....Kat Hi Kat, very kind of you to mention that it takes a lot of time to add some of the posts to my Normandy Reports, also how you enjoy keeping up with life and events in Normandy , I didn't realise that I would still be posting comments now when I started this five years ago. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6402 Posted March 19, 2013 @ Nine-O-Nine: Well that's no mean feat...congratulations! Being a fellow Brit you'll doubtless have "got" the many Brit-to-Brit references which must leave our transAtlantic buddies a little perplexed from time to time! To be continued........ To be continued........ ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6403 Posted March 19, 2013 Specially for "NINE-O-NINE"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6404 Posted March 19, 2013 @ Nine-O-Nine: Well that's no mean feat...congratulations! Being a fellow Brit you'll doubtless have "got" the many Brit-to-Brit references which must leave our transAtlantic buddies a little perplexed from time to time! To be continued........ We in the "New World" are only perplexed because we don't speak English, just 'merican. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6405 Posted March 19, 2013 We in the "New World" are only perplexed because we don't speak English, just 'merican. Two nations, divided by a common language? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6406 Posted March 19, 2013 We in the "New World" are only perplexed because we don't speak English, just 'merican. Press #1 for Spanish press #2 for new world 'merican Press #3 for Real English Press #4 talk total crap ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6407 Posted March 19, 2013 Two nations, divided by a common language? nope ! ! One Nation divided by two governments :lol: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6408 Posted March 19, 2013 ....and press # 5 for Welsh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6409 Posted March 19, 2013 ....and press # 5 for Welsh! hangfire Ian, you have written that in English, surely you should have written it in Welsh ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6410 Posted March 19, 2013 Dim problem, Ken bachgen hen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6411 Posted March 19, 2013 Dim problem, Ken bachgen hen! Ian, not certain what you say in Welsh in South Wales for ' microwave oven ' but I know in Northern Wales it always raises a smile when I hear how it's referred to there, can't recall at the moment and my sister is not at home to confirm it again for me, is it ' poppity-ping ' or something like that :lol: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6412 Posted March 19, 2013 Ian, not certain what you say in Welsh in South Wales for ' microwave oven ' but I know in Northern Wales it always raises a smile when I hear how it's referred to there, can't recall at the moment and my sister is not at home to confirm it again for me, is it ' poppity-ping ' or something like that :lol: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 Here in the deepest south they are known as "microwave ovens" Ken! Our northern cousins have their own slang!! Can you get the Welsh part of your tongue around this one from the north?! Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6413 Posted March 19, 2013 (In case readers of this thread don't believe me!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6414 Posted March 19, 2013 Can you get the Welsh part of your tongue around this one from the north?! Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Ian, attempting that was what got me into trouble in my youth, but antibiotics from the doctor cured it for me ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6415 Posted March 19, 2013 Normandy ' Then & Now ' .................................... Yesterday I managed to acquire an image of St Mere Eglise from an angle that I had not seen before so today I drove into town to capture a mirror image of it for the forum. The road that the cameraman was stood on is the route into St Mere eglise from Utah beach, in the centre of the photo is a crossroads, turn left and you would be in the town square, straight across would lead to the temporary cemetery set up a few days after D-Day. Also of interest in the photo is some of the damage and rubble laying in the street, this would indicate that the image would have been taken three or four days after D-Day when the Germans shelled the town, as this damage at the crossroads was not evident on D-Day when convoys of vehicles arrived in town from the beach landings. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 19 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 19, 2013 Share #6416 Posted March 19, 2013 Nice one Ken...I know that street! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPTFrank Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6417 Posted March 20, 2013 Nice! Thats probably the Best angle of all the pictures you have posted. Like the footprints of the photographer were still there and you stood in them. Buildings sure didn't change much in all those years. Robert LtRGFRANK Looks like the snow has melted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6418 Posted March 20, 2013 Nice one Ken...I know that street! Hi Ian, and so you should having crawled along it many times after leaving the bistro at 3am of a morning :lol: This is a joke folks, as Ian doesn't drink and is actually tee-total it's just the people he hangs around with that drink ............. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6419 Posted March 20, 2013 Nice! Thats probably the Best angle of all the pictures you have posted. Like the footprints of the photographer were still there and you stood in them. Buildings sure didn't change much in all those years. Robert LtRGFRANK Looks like the snow has melted Hi Robert, here are the two images again, I have reduced the color on my comparison photo and made it monochrome see how close the buildings look now. We still have mountains of snow in my village nine days later due to the drifts, St Mere Eglise didn't suffer from the drifts with the buildings acting as wind-breaks. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6420 Posted March 20, 2013 Normandy Reports ....................... I took a ride over to utah beach this afternoon after the recent days storms, the shot above shows how high the sea must have risen and reached during the storm, this is a WWII beach exit road and the sand and debris can be seen to have reached some 70-80 yards / metres above normal high tide. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6421 Posted March 20, 2013 Normandy Reports ....................... Photo showing the sand dune slippage and small Tobruk bunker that has slipped even further out of position tilted towards the sands, I think the movement of sand and sand dunes has been the greatest I have seen in six winters here. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6422 Posted March 20, 2013 Maybe the exceptionally high tide will have washed up some interesting "goodies" Ken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6423 Posted March 20, 2013 Maybe the exceptionally high tide will have washed up some interesting "goodies" Ken? Hi Ian, well the next three photo's will show the German barbed wire stakes that have now appeared as the sand has been washed away that was covering them. I have walked this exact spot many times in the six years I have been here, and these have never been seen before. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6424 Posted March 20, 2013 Mother nature continues to reveal her "treasures"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted March 20, 2013 Share #6425 Posted March 20, 2013 Hi Ian, well the next three photo's will show the German barbed wire stakes that have now appeared as the sand has been washed away that was covering them. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Hi Ian, this is the second of three photo's showing the German barbed wire stakes that have now appeared as the sand has been washed away that was covering them. I have walked this exact spot many times in the six years I have been here, and these have never been seen before. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 20 2013 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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