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23/10/2024 9:59 am
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Watched a Doco on BBC 4 last night
Dave Tompkins was a petty thief who craved adventure. His career as an international mercenary began in Africa and took him all over the world - to Afghanistan, Croatia and later to Colombia, where he led a team commissioned to assassinate notorious Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He went out with Callan and Copland to Angola he was the explosives guy in the team. While laying some mines he was injured by one going off. Got casavact back to uk just before Callan executed some of his men. Peter McAleese featured. We had one guy in our squadron who was out there he told me that the only way he survived was to keep to SOP’s staying in the bush and no tracks/roads
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024986/storyville-dogs-of-war
23/04/2026 10:10 am
Sounds like London not your favorite place Pat
23/04/2026 1:06 pm
It's ok for a quick visit Ian, but I couldn't live or work there! The tube system is a marvel and without it the city would be gridlocked to hell and totally unworkable, but when I sit or stand on the trains and watch the mindless zombies surrounding me with their heads buried in their phones with no communication between them it saddens me, and it's difficult to find anyone English in any establishment! Every person who served me had a foreign accent, as we found yesterday when asking directions to the train station, all very helpful but difficult to understand! We always stay in the Travelodge in Fulham and move about via the tube, and I enjoy flitting around what is a great city, but I'm glad to leave when the time comes and get back to the countryside I'm used to! Just spent all day on my back under the Land Rover replacing the master and slave cylinders on the clutch as one or the other gave up the ghost on me before we went away leaving me with no car, so glad to finally get pressure back in the clutch and now need to rest my aching bones! 🤪Â
23/04/2026 6:30 pm
Don't like any big city myself, country boy at heart!
23/04/2026 6:39 pm
Used ta bi oreight in the 60s n 70s befoor the mass invasion. Even got full boord at the Royal Hotel Russell Square when competing in the Mr. Universe Comp at The Victoria Palace Theatre. French Lessons at Miss Fifis down Soho a nice distraction. 😛Â
24/04/2026 7:58 am
C'est la vie! 😋Â
24/04/2026 3:35 pm
A couple of my bunch are at that neck of the woods on a mini break as they call it.sending loads of pictures of scenic views of buildings and things. But what I don't want to see is their plates of grub, while I'm eating a fekin cheese bango!.
A bit cruel that!😫
24/04/2026 6:07 pm
 Nowt wrong wi a chayse banjo az thick az a wrestlers neck Bob. Beats that foreign shite that thi call grub 🤑Â
24/04/2026 6:55 pm
With loads of sliced onion or Branstons in it, nom nom nom! 😋Â
25/04/2026 2:00 pm
I eat more cheese than is good for me Dave, Cornish Crackler is my favorite at the moment. But I.m partial to red Leicester on toast. Plain and simple!😋
25/04/2026 2:59 pm
Love cheese in all it's forms, although I draw the line at plain Wensleydale which I find tasteless until they add fruit or something to it as they seem to do each christmas! I get the old toastie maker out most weeks and do a couple of plain ones for her and something tastier for me with pickle or onions/mushrooms and stacks of ground pepper!
26/04/2026 4:29 pm
Bob, when you say 'red Leicester on toast', do you mean red Leicester placed on the toasted bread or grilled? A couple of weeks ago, i had a RL toastie and it was gopping. I prefer a good cheddar, but it's difficult to find good stuff these days. Maybe the radiotherapy has fukked my tastebuds? ÂI eat more cheese than is good for me Dave, Cornish Crackler is my favorite at the moment. But I.m partial to red Leicester on toast. Plain and simple!😋
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Cheese with fruits through it should be illegal.Love cheese in all it's forms, although I draw the line at plain Wensleydale which I find tasteless until they add fruit or something to it as they seem to do each christmas! I get the old toastie maker out most weeks and do a couple of plain ones for her and something tastier for me with pickle or onions/mushrooms and stacks of ground pepper!
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26/04/2026 6:18 pm
Anything to give it taste Don, that Wallace was a lying bastard when he said 'Nice bit of Wensleydale Gromit', no such thing, tasteless crap!
26/04/2026 7:08 pm
I love most cheeses but favourite is loads of grated chayse wi a big blob o butter on a hot roasted spud.
26/04/2026 7:44 pm
Another weekly treat we enjoy, nom nom nom! 😋Â
