Baz posted:

I guess Yogi is still celebrating Burns Night 

yes

Rocking Ros Rose posted:

Baz posted:

I guess Yogi is still celebrating Burns Night 

yes

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Built them hardy in those days 

Kids and bomb sites were a match way into the early 60s up north😂

Same in London 

I remember an 8-10 year old me, sitting watching silly boys trying to kill themselves playing games on bomb sites and hunting for 'treasure '

Omg 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Built them hardy in those days 

Kids and bomb sites were a match way into the early 60s up north😂

Same in London 

I remember an 8-10 year old me, sitting watching silly boys trying to kill themselves playing games on bomb sites and hunting for 'treasure '

Horrendous 

Rocking Ros Rose posted:

Baz posted:

I guess Yogi is still celebrating Burns Night 

yes

Full of Haggis😂

Baz posted:

Horrendous 

Yes

It’s amazing how people just carried on 

Kaytee posted:

Rocking Ros Rose posted:

Baz posted:

I guess Yogi is still celebrating Burns Night 

yes

Full of Haggis😂

🤣🤣

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Built them hardy in those days 

Kids and bomb sites were a match way into the early 60s up north😂

Same in London 

I remember an 8-10 year old me, sitting watching silly boys trying to kill themselves playing games on bomb sites and hunting for 'treasure '

wow

Baz posted:

It’s amazing how people just carried on 

I think it's in the British psyche....or we're just bloody minded😂

It must have been awful ...

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

It’s amazing how people just carried on 

I think it's in the British psyche....or we're just bloody minded😂

yes

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

It’s amazing how people just carried on 

I think it's in the British psyche....or we're just bloody minded😂

I’d go with the latter 

Rocking Ros Rose posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Built them hardy in those days 

Kids and bomb sites were a match way into the early 60s up north😂

Same in London 

I remember an 8-10 year old me, sitting watching silly boys trying to kill themselves playing games on bomb sites and hunting for 'treasure '

wow

There was no treasure ......and cavorting on a bomb site ,which was known as The Field didn't impress any of the girls😂

Baz posted:

It must have been awful ...

dreadful

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

It’s amazing how people just carried on 

I think it's in the British psyche....or we're just bloody minded😂

I’d go with the latter 

Me too😂

Rofl 

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

They don’t like it up ‘em Mr Mainwaring 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

Yes 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

Yes 

None of my rellies were in the forces...all the engineers were working at home, my dad was attached to the army but not in it....and the two men on my mother's side were too old to be called up 😁

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

Yes 

None of my rellies were in the forces...all the engineers were working at home, my dad was attached to the army but not in it....and the two men on my mother's side were too old to be called up 😁

My dad was in the army ...in the far east ....and got captured in the fall of Singapore . My mums brother was evacuated at Dunkirk ...and my mum worked in munitions 

Mr B learned to drive in the army ....he was a royal engineer

Well at least you got a decent meal ....sign me up 

My first husbands mum was a WAF 

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

Yes 

None of my rellies were in the forces...all the engineers were working at home, my dad was attached to the army but not in it....and the two men on my mother's side were too old to be called up 😁

My dad was in the army ...in the far east ....and got captured in the fall of Singapore . My mums brother was evacuated at Dunkirk ...and my mum worked in munitions 

My dad was classed as an officer, largely for social reasons , my mum sat on her backside,waited on hand and foot . 😂

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

I remember my husband talking about blanko 

My uncle always called the stuff you cleaned white plimsolls with as blanco😂

Yes 

None of my rellies were in the forces...all the engineers were working at home, my dad was attached to the army but not in it....and the two men on my mother's side were too old to be called up 😁

My dad was in the army ...in the far east ....and got captured in the fall of Singapore . My mums brother was evacuated at Dunkirk ...and my mum worked in munitions 

My dad was classed as an officer, largely for social reasons , my mum sat on her backside,waited on hand and foot . 😂

🤣🤣

Was your dad in the forces Ros ?

Where did Ros go 

Baz posted:

Well at least you got a decent meal ....sign me up 

In my first job there was an older lady who had been a Land Girl  in her teens, she said it was the time of her life😂

Baz posted:

Where did Ros go 

I iz ere

Rocking Ros Rose posted:

Baz posted:

Where did Ros go 

I iz ere

Oh there you are 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Well at least you got a decent meal ....sign me up 

In my first job there was an older lady who had been a Land Girl  in her teens, she said it was the time of her life😂

🤣🤣🤣

Baz posted:

Where did Ros go 

No idea....perhaps she's having a go at The Gay Gordons and veggie Haggis😁

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Where did Ros go 

No idea....perhaps she's having a go at The Gay Gordons and veggie Haggis😁

🤣🤣🤣

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Well at least you got a decent meal ....sign me up 

In my first job there was an older lady who had been a Land Girl  in her teens, she said it was the time of her life😂

🤣🤣🤣

Yankee soldiers....say no more 😂