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Well I've gone back on my word that I wouldn't put my grandson through what I have the last 40 years but since his mam and dad let him buy a mag top I decided to step in. It's his 7th birthday the back end of October so I'm planning on taking him (with his dad) to the Burnley game and no doubt he'll want to wear his birthday present!

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Essayyeffcee said:
Well I've gone back on my word that I wouldn't put my grandson through what I have the last 40 years but since his mam and dad let him buy a mag top I decided to step in. It's his 7th birthday the back end of October so I'm planning on taking him (with his dad) to the Burnley game and no doubt he'll want to wear his birthday present!

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have you reported his mam and dad to social services ?
 
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We have a gentleman in the care home where I work hit the grand old age of 109 today.

Ex fire chief for Northumberland and a flight engineer on Lancaster bombers in his earlier years. Still has all his marbles and it is truly magnificent listening to him recall some of his both sad and happy memories.
Anyway I believe TV and the press will be turning up today so you may just see a snippet of this great man on TV later today.
 
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Gil T Azell said:
We have a gentleman in the care home where I work hit the grand old age of 109 today.

Ex fire chief for Northumberland and a flight engineer on Lancaster bombers in his earlier years. Still has all his marbles and it is truly magnificent listening to him recall some of his both sad and happy memories.
Anyway I believe TV and the press will be turning up today so you may just see a snippet of this great man on TV later today.
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My Uncle, Norman Thorn was on the Lancasters, I wonder if he knew him? Brave lads beyond belief.
 
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I shall ask him next week when I am back at work.
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Cheers mate, my Uncle kept quiet about the war until a few years before he died and then he told me everything.
The British Air museum ( I think) asked him for his medals to put on display in London, he flew the Lancasters on 63 missions and then joined the path finders.
 
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rooch 3 said:
Cheers mate, my Uncle kept quiet about the war until a few years before he died and then he told me everything.
The British Air museum ( I think) asked him for his medals to put on display in London, he flew the Lancasters on 63 missions and then joined the path finders.
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A current chief fire officer has been in touch with the museum and I am led to believe they will be visiting in the next few weeks. Unsure as to whether that is to discuss any particular thing or to present him with something.
 
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A current chief fire officer has been in touch with the museum and I am led to believe they will be visiting in the next few weeks. Unsure as to whether that is to discuss any particular thing or to present him with something.
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That would be nice for him, let’s hope it’s a presentation <ok>
I know my Uncle only handed them over if myself and my sister could have them back anytime we wanted them. I reckon they have a good home where they are.
 
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rooch 3 said:
Cheers mate, my Uncle kept quiet about the war until a few years before he died and then he told me everything.
The British Air museum ( I think) asked him for his medals to put on display in London, he flew the Lancasters on 63 missions and then joined the path finders.
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They are real heroes Rooch, my dad wouldn’t talk about his war time experiences but a few years before he died I was boarding his loft out and found some memoires he wrote at the time and an interview he did with an American newspaper.

Fascinating stuff and I wish that I had pressed him to talk about it more when he was alive.
 
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He told me all sorts, some of it pretty grim, but one thing he said is they never felt frightened, his crew always thought they would come back.
I have got quite a bit from him, but the funniest is a letter of where he is charged ( I think sixpence) for being a pair of socks short in his kit at the end of the war, and people think governments are bad now <laugh><laugh>
 
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They say inspiration can come from the strangest places.
I've toyed with doing a Lancaster model for a while, but following on from the last few posts I've decided to order this....it's on pre-order so not out till January 2023.
It's a big un....45cm long and 65cm wide.

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Had a bit of a panic tonight. Wife went round to the daughter's and came back with one if my grandson's t-shirts to measure up against the football top I bought for him - t-shirt was a bit bigger than the top!!! The only way we could ensure that it fit before his birthday was to get him to try it on. So around we went and said it was an early birthday present. The look on his face when he saw his name on the back was brilliant! He grabbed the top and tried it on - it fit!!! And to top it off even better, he said that he'll probably have to get rid of his New****le top - music to this lads ears <laugh>

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Now he's asking his mam and dad when he's going to a Sunderland match! <cool>
 
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Watched the first season of Sunderland til I die for the second time. In fairness, the opsticals the club and Bain had to overcome were massive. We watched it through anger, but watching it back again its amazing just how **** we were. Premier leauge hangover, no money etc.night and day to what we are now. Not bothering with season 2. Just one look at Donald and my heart rate went up. If Donald is Bush, then Charlie is Cheney.
 
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Think that's what he was trying to say mate.
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When we lived at Leadgate, I was 7 or 8, there was a farm on the way to Iveston.

One evening we heard a commotion and ran down to the barn which was ablaze. The cows were trapped inside and burning alive ...

.... I'll never forget the noise they made or how delicious they smelled.
 
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