Ozzie Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 All the Blog's (insights into other's lives and imaginations), Grandad's Trunk, Gallipoli, many others, and many thanks to those who took the time to answer my questions. I wish I could be more helpful but bow to the huge knowlrdge base on this forum. Cheers Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Purely and simply to annoy Hartley ... it's BLUE pencils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Lot's of good stuff. Some got a bit heated - no problem with everyone still talking ! I particularly liked the threads when postings were subsequently found by other parties through sheer serendipity. A photo of a Scottish officer was unexpectedly found by a relative as were details of a Sergeant's diary . Superb. I also liked the good response to the Zonebeke Museum's request for photos of Tyne Cot casualties. It looks like the Forum will be able to enable contributions to an archive of real continuing value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Purely and simply to annoy Hartley ... it's BLUE pencils. Didn't you know that red is the new blue for 2006 J M Harters Fashion & Lifestyle Editor Pedants R Us - the Magazine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Glad to be of service. I was quite fond the 'Killing Fields' thread which many - notably Jack Sheldon - contributed to with some great maps/diagrams etc. Sadly, the images have gone .. will they return? Boo hoo if they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Didn't you know that red is the new blue for 2006 J M Harters Fashion & Lifestyle Editor Pedants R Us - the Magazine Anecdote. Forecasters in the Met Office use red for highs and warm fronts, blue for lows and cold fronts, purple for occlusions. I had a very senior and revered colleague who was colour blind. He habitually chipped a lump off each [wooden] crayon and wrote RED on the red, and BLUE on the blue, so all was well. Until the day I whipped his crayons and substituted red marked BLUE etc. The Lord High Admiral Obergrueppenfuehrer Met Man was not amused after the mid day chart was analysed and published. I fear everyone knew whodunnit. Those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 30 December , 2005 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2005 There was a post abput mud - a mempir, I think, of a soldier and his recolections of mud in the trenches. Really witty. Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 30 December , 2005 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2005 The Mud Memoir: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...58&hl=a+mudlark It's dated 2004, but since I didn't read it till this year, I'm counting it as 2005! Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Clay Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Until the day I whipped his crayons and substituted red marked BLUE etc. Hmmm - should Capt. Grumpy in fact be Capt. Cruelty? Nah, I'm sure it was all done in a spirit of good-natured tomfoolery - wasn't it ? Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 30 December , 2005 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2005 http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...opic=30950&st=0 Frev's thread from th diary of Fred Symons. I am embarrassed to have forgotten this one - I was rivetted by it at the time! Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 30 December , 2005 Share Posted 30 December , 2005 Being a relative "new boy" I am still amazed at the wealth of knowledge on this forum and the willingness of all contributors to enlighten people like me. Egbert's Grandfather's thread has to be the favourite but there has been so much more on inumerable other threads as well. And there is always UOT to brighten up the day. Thanks to you all and have a great New Year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Wills Posted 31 December , 2005 Share Posted 31 December , 2005 It can hardly be called a favourite thread, but during the summer Ann Kimsey was forced to flee her home ahead of the devasting hurricane that struck Texas. Ann had been doing many good works for the refugees from New Orleans until she too had to face the forces of nature. The favourite bit was hearing later that she had returned home safe, and that chez Kimsey was still more of less in one piece. Ann, I hope that any dramas you have in 2006 will be connected with revelations about Grover. He spent part of his war at Four Winds Farm - I bet you could tell him or thing or two about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ackimzey Posted 31 December , 2005 Share Posted 31 December , 2005 Thanks, Kate. Without the help of all the fine folks on this forum Grover's diary would never have been transcribed. So a happy new year and may 2006 bring blessing to all. Ann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markinbelfast Posted 31 December , 2005 Share Posted 31 December , 2005 for me...the re-enactors who award themselves wound stripes for hurting themselves on barbed wire....or with flares...or zipping the trousers up to early!...rarely on here these days but log in and use to search to find it to cheer myself up...makes any problems seem tiny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 31 December , 2005 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2005 Another good one. Anyone remember Des's PRO love song? Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 31 December , 2005 Share Posted 31 December , 2005 Where's Nigel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Wills Posted 1 January , 2006 Share Posted 1 January , 2006 Anyone remember Des's PRO love song? Marina Remind me, Marina. 2005 was the year of the Pals Poems. Remember the limericks written in Utterly's Big Brother House? and the poems that graced John Hartley's birthday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 1 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 1 January , 2006 (edited) Kate, It was in the lonely hearts thread. To be sung to the tune of Strangers In The Night:With apologies to Frank .... Strangers in the night exchanging medals Wondering in the night if we could meddle to the very front of that long PRO queue ooo ooo Something in your bag was so inviting, Something in your files was so exciting, Something in my heart, Told me you must be a binlid too-ooo ooo Strangers in the night, two lonely people We were strangers in the night Up to the moment When we said our first hello. At the door of the PRO Love was just a scan away, I'd copy your MICs all day and ... Ever since that night we've been together .. Always talking sh*te, About the Ypres weather... It turned out so right, For strangers in the night Still makes me laugh! Marina Edited 1 January , 2006 by marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 1 January , 2006 Share Posted 1 January , 2006 and the poems that graced John Hartley's birthday? ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 1 January , 2006 Share Posted 1 January , 2006 they wuz raps like man .. keeping it real innit ballymena massif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Robertson Posted 1 January , 2006 Share Posted 1 January , 2006 ballymena massif Is that an announcement on the size of your belly Des? (ohhhhhh my first dig of 2006!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Wills Posted 1 January , 2006 Share Posted 1 January , 2006 ???????? So much for my efforts! To remind you Proclaim the name Hartley As loud as you can. Do thoughts fly to fishing Or full-fruited jam? To L.P. the author Of "Go Between" Or Wintney in Hampshire's Fine Cricket Green? Greater than these Without fear of retort Is genial John Hartley, Pride of Stockport. Marina - Bravo!! Encore! (you could always start a new thread in case the muse strikes again) Desmond - this was dedicated to you, with thanks for the ones you wrote about me (move over John Donne: Desmond from Ballymena Thought that the world should be greener He recycled the waste But in his haste Put out a girl called Marina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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