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I think Camp Nuts had a branch outing at the Pet Shop Boys concert my wife dragged me to the other night. :coffee:

It's been there a bloody long time and I would imagine it must be pretty stuck to the shore by now. I've only known it since 1984 and these are the first close up snaps I've seen of it - but I am no expert. MB

Lively. I can't remember the name of it... but I was politely asked to leave one evening after an encounter with lager. There was another one called Charlee Browns where the dj was....Dale Winton. The birds were generally gorgeous and all entirely unattainable once you got beyond the "wot car you got?" question... A misspent yoof recalled. MB

Top banana....

Can we just all sit around drinking tea singing When The Boat Comes In? Some of us are at work in the Beautiful South (east). No fishee on my disheeeeeee.:-D M

Jack I always thought you were a spanner...

dates, true - humble apple bogies. I did wonder if it was 87. It can't be 88 because I was married that year and there was no time for frivolity. I should dig those negs out. Good man. How's the hurry up and wait gig going? M

It's a bit of cheese. Hey ho!

I was at the air show at BAe Hatfield when it groundlooped in 1986. I didn't have a long enough tele lens but have the event on film and one decent shot of it in flight. After that I dragged my reluctant future Mrs round the construction sheds and saw 146s on the line. Much better snaps in good old Ilford XP1.

This is a fantastic story. Hospital Blues were indeed issued to show men were still serving and help avoid any of the white feather nonsense going on throughout the war. I've got pics of my great uncle Gordon Eccles wearing his. I will see if I can help you with the RBs info. I am surprised you can't find it on the tinterweb. The RBs had 6 Regular 8 Territorial and 6 Service Battalions by the end of the war and had four more affiliated in some form or another. I recommend you sign up to the Great War Forum. MB

Same here. We hadn't been out since May and I haven't been Ieper itself since 2007. Bad. I'm spending a lot of time on the Somme these days and will be out there for a week in April. I'm also in Flanders on and off and will be on other missions in the Spring. Lots on. Sod the exchange rate!

Great stuff..thanks for the info.

Just to clarify - Rex Cadman doesn't own the Hop Farm..

I've been extremely tardy with posting snaps for some time. So, I thought I'd share this view of the Menin Gate from last Saturday. We had a good day, not really on the WW1 trail as such; but we stopped off to pay our respects to my Uncle Les and had nice sunny weather there. Then the clouds closed in and it turned to a real dousing later on. But Ypres, or Ieper - you choose; is a magical place. M

Stuart is a great bloke. I was happy to get the card. Keep tongue firmly placed in cheek. My wife just rolled her eyes when she saw it and said it was dreadful. But she says that about any Christmas card that involves military stuff...a question of taste. Deck the halls...

In Life and in art.

He was an officer and a gentleman. God Bless him.

Yep. Post a snap. M

Loving this, Steve. Keep going while you have time matey... M

Me too, when I started at 16 doing printer training with the Observer, I was warned about 'three finger operators'. I never met any myself, but the guy I was being trained by - who was miserable - did his best to keep me intact. I wasn't destined for a printing career and graduated via a sacking to the old Mirror Group where I was left in charge of nothing more dangerous than a number stamping machine and a biro. M

I used to have a lot of fun in my mispent yoof doing nightshoots in grave yards (inevitable - see student snapper - the bleeding obvious vol IV) and of the many dumped cars in the urban eden I grew up in. I used to do long exposures and have someone fire off a flash gun by hand in the distance or from an angle to get odd lighting effects. They didn't always work. The technique proved useful in the glory days of proper forest rallying in the early 1980s - travelling up from London to north Yorkshire or into Wales and southern Scotland. I got some great pix - but my mate and I usually saved the effects stuff for the back markers. I think using a DSLR the way I do has made me lazy. I'm happy with the pix - I still work hard at it (does it ever show? Dunno), but the willingness to muck about and experiment has faded. The devil is time. The four letter word. If I had more of it, I think I'd go to photography school and learn it all properly. It's never too late. Meantime I am in editing school. What did my maths teacher, Mr Pallister from Penrith, always say? Could do better - see me. Nothing changes...

I am sure this is an element of the 1988 Copyright Act which remains in force. I've read the photography related sections several times in the past. It is indeed a case that photography on private property is subject to permission from the landowner. You may well be in possession of your snaps and confiscating equipment is not allowed - so how cinemas claim to do it, I do not know ( as an aside). In mediation for Lee - when I was a moderator, we were increasingly concerned about breaches of copyright. These are litigious times and a forum like ours could be shut down if we were found to be deliberately in breach of copyright in these circumstances. A while ago we ran a pic of an AFV inside a certain yard and the picture had almost certainly been obtained by an act of trespass, however unmalicious (and it most certainly was unmalicious in this case). We have to be careful all the time. Lee acts with the best of intentions for this forum 24/7.

Ta. I'll find something suitable down the line. M

Cheers Rick, I'm seeking more info. If I get any, I'll be back with it.

NO - THE HOODED CLAW! The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Poor lass usually found herself left in an abandoned mine.