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General => The Shed => Topic started by: tim on April 07, 2010, 16:49:41

Title: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 07, 2010, 16:49:41: - get the News of the World this Sunday.

You have been warned!!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: GRACELAND on April 07, 2010, 16:56:06: ANY CLUES??

ie gardening related ??
:D
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Hector on April 07, 2010, 17:08:44: Quote from: tim on April 07, 2010, 16:49:41
- get the News of the World this Sunday.

You have been warned!!

Katie Price signed by Gardeners World, to replace Alys??????
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: dtw on April 07, 2010, 17:41:10: C'mon spill the beans. ;D
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 07, 2010, 18:41:42: Gardening related? Only because I happen to garden!

More like an Anniversary.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: GRACELAND on April 07, 2010, 18:47:18: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: cornykev on April 07, 2010, 19:26:10: Lord Lucan found tending his lottie in Norfolk, with Shergar supplying the nuts in the paddock behind him. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :P
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Unwashed on April 07, 2010, 20:14:32: Concord, that pinacle of British engineering, turns out to have been invented by the French.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: PurpleHeather on April 08, 2010, 17:47:24: It is Tim and Katie Price.

Peter Stringfellow told me that he had seen the photos and they made him blush.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 08, 2010, 18:18:43: My lips are sealed!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: mat on April 08, 2010, 18:29:38: Happy 90th birthday for today Tim :-)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: EDITORNEWSOFTHEWORLD on April 08, 2010, 19:12:58: All our exposes are carefully researched and I can confidently confirm the accuracy of our reporting.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jeannine on April 08, 2010, 20:02:11: Recognizing you as an aging RAF officer . 92 years in April since the flying Corps merged with Navy Air Service. They are doing a stamp of you!!! Giving you an OBE,, or better still a gold plated garden fork to be presented in your garden by Prince Charles..(both in wellies of course)

Or... the News of the World was hanging over the garden gate when you were weeding in your unmentionables!!!

Tim, we don't get the paper here.XX Jeannine
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Paulines7 on April 08, 2010, 20:15:18: The News of the World is renowned for its sex scandals so I dread to think what Tim has been up to and with whom!! ;D ;D ;D

Jeannine, you can read the paper on line here: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: antipodes on April 09, 2010, 11:42:07: Well it beats me, hope someone puts a better link on, as I am not in the Uk.
What's this rubbish about Tim being 90??? That can't be possible, are you pulling his leg??
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Hector on April 09, 2010, 12:44:05: Tim, it wasn't you having an altercation with Katie Price in the Comet carpark, was it :)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: mat on April 09, 2010, 13:23:36: Quote from: antipodes on April 09, 2010, 11:42:07
What's this rubbish about Tim being 90??? That can't be possible, are you pulling his leg??

Look at Tim's profile...

... I know... it seems unbelieveable... puts me at least to shame...
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: antipodes on April 09, 2010, 13:57:40: :o :o :o :o :o
Heavens above, I am hard pressed doing all that at 40!!! ;D ;D ;D
So it's true that hard work keeps you young (bugger, bugger, bugger, I was hoping it was more sitting with your feet up with a McVities digestive watching EastEnders!!)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jayb on April 09, 2010, 15:09:06: We did Happy Birthday in December http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,56991.0.html
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 09, 2010, 16:17:03: Jeannine - you've come closest. But we're not being given anything - mean b******s! - exceopt lunch!!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jayb on April 09, 2010, 17:22:25: Quote from: tim on April 09, 2010, 16:17:03
Jeannine - you've come closest.

Quote from: Jeannine on April 08, 2010, 20:02:11
you were weeding in your unmentionables!!!

:o :o
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 09, 2010, 18:01:03: I do, Jay - but we're only overlooked by close friends.

I have to say that I'd rather be in the Guardian!!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jeannine on April 09, 2010, 20:46:32: They may surprise you Tim... won't say anymore cos I think I may have it worked out.

I think it is super and you surely deserve it.

Must admit I agree with you about the Guardian..but maybe you will make the local TV..you should you know.

XX Jeannine
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jayb on April 09, 2010, 22:16:18: ;D

I don't often have a Sunday paper but I'll definitely buy a News of the World tomorrow.
Jeannine is way ahead.
I hope it was a decent lunch!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: grannyjanny on April 10, 2010, 14:23:36: Tim my daughter writes for the DM & Sunday Times is that any better ;D.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 10, 2010, 18:34:43: Point me to her bit in the ST - we have it.

Apparently, a couple of other papers will carry something.

NOTW - renowned more for bare bums (& other things B) than for bare truths?
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Bugloss2009 on April 10, 2010, 19:32:47: it's the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain

wonder of Tim read or heard the piece by Clive James about Sir Keith Park and his statue on the 4th plinth, seething with rage that some journalist on a posh paper saying she'd never heard of him and didn't know what all the fuss was about

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8359288.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8359288.stm)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 10, 2010, 20:22:51: He did!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: grannyjanny on April 10, 2010, 20:26:11: It's on line folks. Well done Tim & co. What a man.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: mat on April 10, 2010, 20:32:55: online where? can you send a link?
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Digeroo on April 10, 2010, 21:06:09: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/778558/Battle-of-Britain-hero-Wing-Commander-John-Francis-Durham-Elkington-1-Squadron-West-Sussex-Hurricanes.htm

Amazing well done tim.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: mat on April 10, 2010, 21:31:02: That link doesn't work for me; comes up page not found :-(
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Duke Ellington on April 10, 2010, 21:38:31: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/778558/Battle-of-Britain-hero-Wing-Commander-John-Francis-Durham-Elkington-1-Squadron-West-Sussex-Hurricanes.html

The *L* was omitted from the html bit
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: lillian on April 10, 2010, 21:40:37: Do a search for Elkington on the news of the world website. It will bring up the page.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: grannyjanny on April 10, 2010, 21:51:19: NOTW sales down tomorrow then ;D ;D ;D.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: macmac on April 10, 2010, 22:43:50: Congratulations Tim but then you've always been famous onA4 :)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: mat on April 10, 2010, 23:41:32: Wow, not really sure what else to say really. I cannot imagine how scared one must be in a situation like that
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Hector on April 10, 2010, 23:52:37: Sincere congratulations Tim. A Hurricane and a Spitfire occasionally fly down our valley.

Thanks Digeroo for the link. Excellent, thought provoking piece by Clive James.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jeannine on April 11, 2010, 03:27:20: XX Jeannine
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: EDITORNEWSOFTHEWORLD on April 11, 2010, 06:20:21: Our feature

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/778558/Battle-of-Britain-hero-Wing-Commander-John-Francis-Durham-Elkington-1-Squadron-West-Sussex-Hurricanes.html
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: grannyjanny on April 11, 2010, 06:26:29: Tim you are up there with the "people I would like to meet".
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 11, 2010, 07:56:30: Couldn't have done better myself, Mr E - but how did you find our Forum?? Walls have ears!!

Pretty pass - never thought I'd have to be helped into the cockpit of a Spitfire by a Lady Reporter. In 'the olden days' it was up, up & in!!

= Tim

PS - for A4Aers - rather nice??
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: reddyreddy on April 11, 2010, 08:06:30: what an amazing article! The wounds being cauterized and forgetting to unhook your oxygen and radio, makes reading historical articles so much more personal & accessible with memories like that. Thank you Tim x
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Flighty on April 11, 2010, 08:25:01: Tim the accolades are well deserved! Here's a terrific Hurricane photo for you to enjoy

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Hawker-Hurricane-Mk2B/1659184/L/
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 11, 2010, 08:55:24: Just great - but it once again raises the question of outboard guns protruding. Never in my Service. Only in Canada??

= Tim
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: betula on April 11, 2010, 09:07:41: Congratulations Tim,you deserve the recognition. ;D
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Flighty on April 11, 2010, 09:11:17: Tim I'll have to ask a friend who's bound to know! Meantime here's one of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Hurricanes which doesn't have them protruding!

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Hawker-Hurricane-Mk2C/1415883/L/
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tonybloke on April 11, 2010, 09:58:53: many congrats Tim !!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: silly billy on April 11, 2010, 10:25:33: Fantastic story. You are an amazing man. Wow!!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Ishard on April 11, 2010, 11:34:10: You are a very brave man Tim.

Definition of bravery is being scared sh*tless but still doing what needs to be done.

Congratulations on it being recognised ;D

Par Adua ad Astra ;)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Mortality on April 11, 2010, 11:44:40: Excellent, I salute you sir and now i'm speachless. ;)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: davyw1 on April 11, 2010, 13:09:16: Well done sir, i would love to sit and listen to some of your stories over a pint or two all of which would be on me.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Tulipa on April 11, 2010, 14:05:41: Lovely to read the article about you Tim xx :)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: lorna on April 11, 2010, 15:17:27: Great stories of some of those brave men. I went out to buy NOTW, should have been patient, could have read the article in great detail on A4A.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: plot51A on April 11, 2010, 18:12:13: Just seen you on the telly Tim, filmed at Duxford. Wonderful. Salutes to you and all the other brave men.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 11, 2010, 18:19:53: d**n - missed it!!

Which Channel?
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: theothermarg on April 11, 2010, 19:03:11: wow 8) 8)
marg
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: plot51A on April 11, 2010, 19:55:58: It was on BBC Look East local news. Was scanning all the group shots for you, then the closing shot was of you getting out the plane and quoted you about no longer jumping in - or something similar. No mistaking you!!!
They even acknowledged the NoW!!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 11, 2010, 20:19:58: Thanks so much - must try to get a copy.

= Tim
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Jayb on April 12, 2010, 08:47:48: Congratulations Tim, well deserved recognition.

Lovely to read the article about you

Thank you x
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Melbourne12 on April 12, 2010, 09:31:17: What a story. I'm humbled.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: antipodes on April 12, 2010, 10:11:10: Heavens, how fascinating! Thank you for your amazing bravery! But really, many of us can be braver than we imagine once you are in the actual situation. My dad was in the merchant navy which was also actually very dangerous, but it was just what you had to do. Our generations that have never lived through a war have trouble picturing all that...

Strange images of his spring onions saluting him as he walks past! ;D ;D
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 12, 2010, 10:37:36: I second that - sailed to Canada & India & returned from Russia with them.

Wonderful people.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 12, 2010, 13:04:03: Plot51A - thanks again - they're sending me a DVD.

= Tim
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: plot51A on April 12, 2010, 13:29:29: Very pleased to have been of help Tim, and delighted they are sending you the DVD. Didn't think much of the Edward Fox bit!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 12, 2010, 15:26:58: He was caught unawares outside - he did a brilliant spiel over coffee.

A real charmer.

= Tim
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Paulines7 on April 12, 2010, 16:34:22: You are a real hero Tim, very, very brave.

I found this link too.

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=105008;article=24433;title=The%20Battle%20of%20Britain%20Historical%20Society%20Discussion%20Forum
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: CotswoldLass on April 12, 2010, 16:43:52: Awe-inspiring story Tim,
much respect and all best CLx
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: 1066 on April 12, 2010, 16:55:11: just caught up with this thread Tim - wonderful story thanks for giving us the nod as it were :)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: rosebud on April 12, 2010, 18:43:55: Congratulations Tim, Great respect to you & your colleages.

THANK YOU.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: Unwashed on April 12, 2010, 19:54:21: It's just such an unreal experience for the rest of us Tim, that was something to live through.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 12, 2010, 19:57:48: Unreal? Yes.
Certainly unusual!!
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: cornykev on April 12, 2010, 20:26:52: What can I say Tim, I think its all been said, you've made us all so bloody proud to know you. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: honeybee on April 17, 2010, 17:44:52: Tim I read it first thing Sunday morning and felt so utterly proud of you and the boys.

I loved the pic of you in the cockpit and the video too, you look amazing and walk so tall.

Thank you boys, for all that you did.

Always remembered x
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: tim on April 26, 2010, 11:52:23: Just have to add this one to show that I took my own Cardiac Nurse with me - & for the benefit of all those present - even older than me!!

= Tim

PS Plot51 - did I say that I now have the DVD - thanks. SO embarrassing - the getting in & out bit - never thought I'd make it - despite being helped by all those Ladies!! But Daughter insisted.
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: 1066 on April 26, 2010, 14:27:19: What a lovely photo Tim :)
Title: Re: If you want a bit of shock/horror,
Post by: aquilegia on April 26, 2010, 17:19:16: An amazing story Tim. I remember bits of it when I was on A4A before, but didn't know the full details. You really are a hero!

I really don't think my generation can fully appreciate what our parents and grandparents went through to win us freedom. It really is amazing, awesome (not a word I use lightly) and humbling!