Oldest thread I can find is over 10 years old

Interesting Owen.... when did Mr Wise,(I forget his first name) found the www.ww2talk forum?.

I always try to memorise events by association,even from childhood when I find I can remember wartime events without much difficulty.

To digress.

Remember the end of the war...it was a beautiful day and I returned home from "egging" on the local swamps which now is a renowned nature reserve and on returning home,my mother who did not know where I had been,told me "the war's over".It was also a pleasing day for me as I had found a "16 egger" ....ducks eggs,none were "deep sat"....a good contribution to the family food basket.

On the swamps, as they were termed...formed over well over a hundred years by colliery workings subsidence,some people kept flat bottom boats or punts but these were generally hidden away in the reeds from the prying eyes of other adults and children.For us it was a question of finding duck nests and gaining access by paddling which usually disturbed stinking hydrogen sulphide,ie rotten eggs....would never have been happy for my children to run such risks as we did in those days.

 

Must say Geoff,it was a pleasure to meet you,have a good chin wag and enjoy a pint with you.

Well organised to get people involved as Steven did on the occasion...a pity that we could not have attracted a few more members to meet up at what was an excellent venue.

 

Owen

I was thinking that "Mr Wise" posted as, and came to me as I thought of his screen name as "Wise one" but it turns out to be "Wise 1".

Lee posted that he had bought the business on 27 March 2004,a short time after the web site had been launched, the founding era,ie, "the early days"

 

Yes Adam,it has turned out to be an excellent web site with a wide range of quality contributors.......questions and discussions keep the interested alert ...in the end you end up with a culture which is determined by the people who use the forum....what do they say about bad apples?

Well supported by the people who administer it and somehow find the time to maintain decent standards and are always about to screen off the various "defaulters" that are occasionally met.

 

'It still costs him money to keep us going, and he hasn't put us up for sale once, which, on the whole, is awfully nice of him...'


Indeed.