Where Do You Live?

comment by The Droog (U17596)
posted 4 days, 15 hours ago
comment by The Mogster (U8270)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Born and grew up in West Sussex, just outside Crawley.
Spent 23 years moving around the South of England / and around the globe serving in the Royal Navy. Have a house down in Cornwall, but have been living and working in the Netherlands for the 8 out of the last 9 years, so far.
Have met many Tottenham fans on my travels.
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Which vessels were you on. can't find the bloof=dy question mark on this foreign laptop!
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The Droog, sorry for the late reply, was back in the UK and internetless.

I was a WAFU so 99% was on the Inv, Lusty and the Death Star (Ark). But did my first trip on Fearless, and last on Fort Vic to GW2.

Really? I was a guest on the Invincible some years ago (it was while the Ark was in for a re-fit so was the flag ship at the time), from Pompey to Liverpool.

Got a really good tour of the place, the goal keeper anti missile guns, down in the engine rooms and up on the bridge for the man over board exercise.

comment by The Droog (U17596)
posted 4 hours, 11 minutes ago
Really? I was a guest on the Invincible some years ago (it was while the Ark was in for a re-fit so was the flag ship at the time), from Pompey to Liverpool.

Got a really good tour of the place, the goal keeper anti missile guns, down in the engine rooms and up on the bridge for the man over board exercise.
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Well lucky you for getting to see what it's really like. I hope you saw the sleeping arrangements, and the fridge . Was the air group on with you? I hope so. On the Invincible and Illustrious I was with the Harriers, Ark it was the new helicopter Merlin.

Yeah the Harriers were there and did a few laps, was incredible.to see from that perspective. Felt like a real privilege actually as a civi. It was 2003 I think I remeber Portsmouth was carnage as they just secured promotion.

At the risk of name dropping I was lucky enough to be a guest of the captain (Soar) as I'm mates with some of the family so we didn't exactly slum it, got to see both sides! We were invited to the girls sleeping quarters one night to socialise, pretty sure they had a wager out on who could bang the captain's son

Name dropping like that is OK, we've had a few guests of honour onboard, in my time. Status Quo would be a memorable one, they film the vid for Jam Side Down on the Ark in 2002, when we came back from a Med trip.

Glad you enjoyed the time and saw the real side of the reason for the carriers, and not some large sunbed for the fishheads (non FAA sailors).

You were lucky to get out of the Wren's quarters alive then . But would have been the same bet if the skipper's daughter was onboard, though I'm sure the skipper would have warned her to be on guard. Any man should with a daughter and sailors around.

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I cycle down that road almost every day! Back up Nightingale mind as it is a one way . I actually had road range on Tubbs road on my bike about 6 months ago, some foreign student saw me coming, green light then decided to carry one crossing slow as anything, without a care in the world while looking at his phone (having made eye contact with me), made my blood boil so I thought feck you I’m not waiting because the light will go red again and I’m not waiting for this arrogant kent, cycled past and just full on b 1tch slapped him on my way past.

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