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I always wanted to be a warehouse manager, until they cured my dyslexia :evil: :evil:

Not so, I think you'll find it's a proctologist that gets the b*m deal :-o

Operation Poppy Appeal kicks off tomorrow, mid morning at Waitrose in Biggin Hill. We'll be there at weekends, most evenings and outside the Blackhorse pub on Sunday the 11/11/07 next to the War Memorial. Any and all are welcome to join us. LEST WE FORGET.

I had the great privilege to be involved in the dedication of a memorial to Christopher Cox VC, a stretcher bearer from the Bedfords on the Somme this year. The ceremony was attended by the Royal Anglians who I would suggest are also the successors to the Norfolks. If there is a desire & consensus to place the stone in France I would be delighted to assist with useful contacts both in The UK and in the Somme area who can help make this happen at an official level.

Tony, if you need a router I've got one in the back of the garage......Somewhere!

Best metal nibbler I've found is.....Rust :evil: OK I'll get my coat.

No end of season blues here, because now the seasons all but done work has taken over. Week before last, Jersey. Last week, Bruges, Ypres & Terneuzen in Holland. This week Liege and the Ardennes. My lad is on half term next week and is really giving me grief about coming to work with me!

No but the Liverpool and Manchester school bus services are :evil: :evil:

I have had the pleasure of seeing the replica ME 262 at Manching in Germany. It can only be described as AWESOME.

Unfortunately not Tony, Westerham and Biggin Hill. Hope your shifts will let you join us again this year mate.

Tony, the reason we are made so welcome locally is because a certain person has approached the store managers personally and then followed it up with a letter. After the collection they receive an official RBL card letting them know how much was collected at their site and a follow up visit and letter of personal thanks. I also know that they get very good customer feedback. Lee Enfield. From experience I can tell you that quite a lot of Poppy Appeal organisers are older, sometimes set in their ways and afraid of upsetting their long standing collectors, I also know that they are run off their feet at this time of year. So why not take the bull by the horns and make your own approach to a local store manager or an edge of town shopping area for permission to collect on their plot, particularly if you know of somewhere that isn't already covered?

This thread has to be the benchmark that sets this forum light years ahead of all the others. Thank you fellow forum members. Now, putting on my RBL Poppy Collectors hat. With world events of recent years, the work and support that the Poppy Appeal funds is sadly growing almost on a daily basis and as such I feel that the Poppy, as a symbol of our rememberance and support is perhaps more important today than it has ever been. In this fast moving and fickle world that we live in, it is a bold & visible statement that we remember and that we care. Why not contact your local Legion branch and offer to collect for the appeal, whether it be for a couple of hours or a day or more with your vehicle. Whatever time you can afford to give, I can assure you from personal experience will be gratefully received. I for one will wear my Poppy with pride.

I don't think it likely that anyone would want to pitch up in a quiet corner away from their vehicle at a large show. Many vehicle owners display a lot of valuable kit with their vehicles, who's going to guarantee it's security overnight? If we take this to the limit, is a field full of Landys really an MV show that would attract the paying public? Lee, dont sell your 9 x 9 to Mark. Give it away to me instead! :-D

Ann Summers unveil their new inter-continental balistic rampant rabbit and it's tactical launch unit :-o

Just a little thing he picked up in Ypres, a Brazillian I believe. Madame Fifi La Boomboom strikes again!

I say, he's not tabling a motion is he?

Drying a bell tent, early 1900s Drying a bell tent, early 1900s?

"This time George took his wet tee shirt fetish too far for Emilys liking!"

Pink buckets, anyone? :goodidea:?

Latrine duty?

Are those two guys in the box Waldorf and Astoria from the Muppets? :evil:

CASFX, computer animated special effects. But my favourite has to be RTFM :evil:

My condolences Neil.

Already done the BBC 6 & 10 o clock news :tongue:

Lest we forget.