old man Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 18 hours ago, islandgun said: 2024. he just got the dates wrong Yep. 18 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, Do you not think we have that in our Society now 🤔 Present and past Governments 🤔 Yep. Hence, " a politicians wet dream" Heading there now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aled Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 First full year of secondary school, it was when i found out that i was really bad at exams! Anyway of far more interest, went on my first fishing holiday to Scotland, caught my 1st salmon from the River Tywi 12lb 3ozs on a great big bunch of worms. I remember my two cousins both miners being on strike, and the family moved to a smallholding and we started part time farming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udderlyoffroad Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 On 02/03/2024 at 12:48, Andy H said: Working on the Vulcan B2 bombers that had been converted to tanker's. Ok, that's the coolest work-related post on this thread so far, but you might not have thought so at the time! Obviously @Scully and @39TDS's shenanigans are deserving of prizes for expert swordsmanship. Personally I was 2 years old, so presumably struggling to master the potty and basic speech (still struggling with both if I'm honest). If this thread was about 2004, though, I'm sure I too would be exercising the forum swear filter with my own tales of horizontal refreshment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 20 minutes ago, udderlyoffroad said: Ok, that's the coolest work-related post on this thread so far, but you might not have thought so at the time! Obviously @Scully and @39TDS's shenanigans are deserving of prizes for expert swordsmanship. Personally I was 2 years old, so presumably struggling to master the potty and basic speech (still struggling with both if I'm honest). If this thread was about 2004, though, I'm sure I too would be exercising the forum swear filter with my own tales of horizontal refreshment. Brilliant, two expressions I had never heard [sheltered life] swordsmanship and horizontal refreshment definitely be using those in my memoirs😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian willetts Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 I was 14 had a paper round getting £4 quid a week to fund my fishing and air gun pellets bus fare to get to the river .4 quid went a long way or it seemed to back then good times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 I was thirteen, would be fourteen in the November of that year, doing normal kids stuff. We never had much money but my Dad had a company car and free use of it and the fuel account, so most weekends were taken up with long drives into the countryside and picnics! In season I Really looked forward to going beating every other Saturday on a farm shoot. Now all these years later fortunate to run a pheasant shoot over that very same land. remember watching the strike and the picket lines on the TV, and being undecided on ‘which side I was on’, disliked Scargill though who just seemed like a shouty little man. A school friends cousin was a young copper who earnt a small fortune in overtime policing the picket lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokersmith Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 (edited) Passing my 11+ and shooting a slab of 32g Trap 200’s on Ball Trap at Penningtons on a Thursday night. Through a fixed choke Full & Full Winchester 101 Waterfowl. Edited March 8 by Smokersmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith 66 Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 84 I was 22, I had just moved in with the lady who would become my wife. That year we launched a boat i had built & did a lot of sailing. I also went self employed & set up a decent workshop to do boatbuilding in. Down the pub often & carefree times. Did a lot of shooting. No worries about money as there was rakes of work about, I cycled a lot & was fit. And then i got older! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 I was 1 month old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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