Is my father in law James Bond?
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My wife's father used to work for the military. According to him in "quality control".
He is a wiry chap and even at 75 is as fit as a butcher's dog. Until very recently he would happily pop into a hand stand and walk on his hands around the garden.
Despite only being in "quality control" he lives in a very nice house.
My wife tells me that when she was growing up her father used to be picked up from home every day by a chauffeur in a big black car. He would often drop her to school on the way to her father's work.
So, is my FIL James Bond or did the government routinely spaff huge money for chauffeur driven cars for junior staff in the 1980s?
Funny I have a similar story. I lived in a flat and the guy below me was an eccentric sort. He was very poshly spoken, went to Oxbridge, forget which. He was lonely and would often pop up for a chat or would catch you in the corridor. Very intelligent chap.
He never talked about the war, but would often talk about working out of Versailles for I think, NATO and having a driver who would pick him every day.
I am sure he was a spy and worked for MI6.
He never talked about the war, but would often talk about working out of Versailles for I think, NATO and having a driver who would pick him every day.
I am sure he was a spy and worked for MI6.
67Dino said:
When you offer to buy him a drink, does he have extremely specific requirements for he’s like it mixed?
He likes red wine and whiskey. He has never requested either being shaken.My MIL is no kind of eye candy, by the way, and to the best of my knowledge has never been abducted by a malevolent but massively wealthy misfit with a scarred face and a cat.
My Uncles father was brought "out of retirement" to help finish building Dungeness Nuclear Reactor.
He'd retired from the design team before the construction started in 1969, and was there still in 1985 aged 86 in, you guessed it "quality control".
Used to get picked up by a chauffeur car from South London to take him to Dungeness and brought back every night.
I worked in the nuclear industry in the late 1980s and Dungeness was well known as a strange place, first new reactor to be built of that design, last to generate electricity. I asked my Uncles father one family funeral what really went on and jokingly said "were you building a nuclear torpedo in there for the Falkland wars".
He replied "Four pieces of advice for you laddie, 1) never throw bodies in lakes, always a fast moving river, takes them away from the crime scene, 2) if you need to bury a body, dig a vertical hole, not a horizontal grave, leaves a smaller footprint on the ground, 3) I'm colourblind, so don't ask about the boathouse doors, 4) If we want to use a nuclear reactor to do anything other than just electricity we can do that easily. I'm just not going to tell you how".
He'd retired from the design team before the construction started in 1969, and was there still in 1985 aged 86 in, you guessed it "quality control".
Used to get picked up by a chauffeur car from South London to take him to Dungeness and brought back every night.
I worked in the nuclear industry in the late 1980s and Dungeness was well known as a strange place, first new reactor to be built of that design, last to generate electricity. I asked my Uncles father one family funeral what really went on and jokingly said "were you building a nuclear torpedo in there for the Falkland wars".
He replied "Four pieces of advice for you laddie, 1) never throw bodies in lakes, always a fast moving river, takes them away from the crime scene, 2) if you need to bury a body, dig a vertical hole, not a horizontal grave, leaves a smaller footprint on the ground, 3) I'm colourblind, so don't ask about the boathouse doors, 4) If we want to use a nuclear reactor to do anything other than just electricity we can do that easily. I'm just not going to tell you how".
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