Friar

Salute, A while ago I posted that I was starting to look into my dad's service history (Royal Navy). I have now received the papers that were in possession of my older brother and thought you may be interested in a couple of items. The first is his "certificate" from King Neptune, the other a picture of his ship on D-day (which my brother tells me my Dad nicked from a newsagents when he happened to be passing and noticed it was his ship!)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523196/Monster-sea-plane-dragged-deep-WWII-Sunderland-flying-boat-raised-seabed-65ft-waves-help-pilot-fly-her.html

@Arthur....trolling foot fetish sites now are we.....I'll give Sister Coco a call...... @Bluebear - Saitek all the way for me. Had them for a few years now and no problems. I still crash.

you people need to get out more.....I'll send Sister Johnathan round Nice idea for a bit of fun BB......

We were told that spouse's dont have to pay.

On Saturday Mrs Friar and I traveled over to RAF Hendon (a side to note to anyone thinking of going the post code/zip code from their website does NOT work with GPS/Sat Nav, they list a different one on their site, as I discovered too late but that is a different story) The purpose of our visit was to attend a talk on RAF Genealogy, on what resources are available to those either already on this quest or about to start. This was followed by a trip behind the scenes to the reading room to have a look at some historical records. This is something my wife would like to do to find out more about her Dad. All we have is a box of photographs that he took whist on service. He thoughtfully wrote on the back where they were taken and a year, but that is all we have. We do not have his service number. We took the pictures along to ask if there was anything in them that might help us get started. A big point of the talk that came across to me was the importance for future generations of my family, or even future historians who should stumble upon me, was to document MY life. If your looking to trace service personnel, chances are that if the did not die (dead people create paper work) or didn't fly a spitfire or charged across open ground on their own armed only with a sword, records will be VERY hard to track down. Now I have not served in any arm of the services but my history will be important to someone in the future, I know nothing about my fathers service history and am also going to try to find something about him (he served in the Royal Navy) but if I do not write down my story now, my life, all be it a plain and simple one, will go unrecorded, my mark in history will be lost and reduced to born, married, died. Nothing of the detail will remain. If you have older generations still alive, talk to them, interview them, find out what they did, even if it was simple, planes do not fly without being fixed, tanks do move without that little washer on the thingy, did your grandmother make that thingy?, troops cant fight without being fed. A line the chap giving the talk used which was given to him by a previous attendee who said we are "personalizing history". I have nothing of my mother or fathers REAL history, I know a bit but would love to be able now to sit them down and talk about their past. I can not as they have both passed away over 20 years ago, it is only now as I get older than I have learned to appreciate the past, but now is too late. Looking at her Dads photographs reduced my wife to tears and has also made me realize how much I miss my mum and dad. I urge you, if you have not done so already, sit your parents, grand parents, elders down and talk to them. I didn't.

On Friday evening Mrs Friar and I traveled into the metropolis to meet up with Mr & Mrs Ovy as the culmination to their week long visit to London. It was a really nice evening in the presence of fine company. For those that require the details the beer was "Young's Special"

I read they have a lot of caterpillar tracked tanks at their disposal

I would love to join in. would like a mossie please. hopefully I will able to get more stick time.

lol! ha ha ha very funny......

already have audacity Crash thanks guys I'll try that and let you know how I get on.

Hello, I wonder if we have any audio guru's that can offer some advice/solutions... I have a number of cassette tapes that I would like to convert to mp3 or mp4 My radio/cd/tape player has the usual speaker outputs plus an AUX L and R It also has an "optical out" My question is what sort of cable/converters would I need to enable me to connect this to a computer? Your advice / pointers welcome. Salute Friar

No sorry chaps I need to talk to the seow command to see if I can get a week off or it will have to be a weeknight and with my work at the moment I am not sure when

HMS Belfast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Belfast_(C35)

"a loo with a view"

No, that is NOT a euphemism, we went to visit Europe's tallest building today.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2433174/Now-understand-womens-pain-Men-teeter-stilettos-help-raise-awareness-domestic-violence.html

All the best mate. A man who's wall building skills are legendary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24159975

Happy birthday mate. Best wishes from all down here in the sarf' Regards Friar

OK Jabo, I will make a note of that and see how things pan out.

I would like to open the show with a spittie or 3....Eshark?

Pilots Brief #1 My plan is (thanks for the idea FT) to have the planes people will be flying ready for spawn in. You will be directed to take off, ahead of your display ala-duxford. So all pilots should have this in mind for their display.

Would those that have said they will "do a bit", please let me know what in? Thanks

@Ovy - Any thing you like mate from WWII era