Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 29)
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Bobberoo99 said:
This is indeed excellent news!! Apart from the beer exclusion!!! And as a relative newbie thanks for clearing up the Battert and Mrs B histrionics!!! 
It is complex. Battert's father worked for his Lordship before the house, grounds and farm were compulsorily purchased by the War Office to become RAF Trivton. There were Brits, Canadians, Poles, Hungarians, a smattering of Free French and later Americans. After the war his Lordship, no longer a young man, was in no fit state to pick up the threads of the estate and retired to Monaco. Under this lack of pressure the War Office seemed to forget about RAF Trivton with its remote location, hangers, outbuildings, control towers old and new, water tower and the original big house and barns and lakes and access to the canal. I say seemed to forget because every so often the house and/or airfield have been used by MI5, MI6, the SAS and other nefarious folk. The nefarious folk may or may not have been acting with the the knowledge of one or other of the first three mentioned. The confusion allowed Battert Senior and Junior to annex the place and here we are enjoying the spoils, racing the peri track and churning the Croquet Lawn. amongst other things.Long may it continue.
Battert Senior is buried next to his Lordship beneath the more established of the compost heaps.
I just met a 94 year old lady with a complete set of marbles. During WWII she worked in the WAF and was one of the people that you see in the films wearing a headset and pushing squadron markers around big maps of the south coast.
Amazing; these people are becoming so rare now. I shan't forget her.
Amazing; these people are becoming so rare now. I shan't forget her.
It sounds like Trivial Towers and indeed Trivton played an important role in the past!! It's so nice to see it being put to such good use in modern times too, all to often these lovely old palaces either get handed over to the National Trust or converted into flats or worse still pulled down!!! Bravo Mr &Mrs Battert bravo indeed where else can a bunch of middle aged loonys with too much time on our hands get together to live out our wildest dreams and free our imagination!!!! Long may it continue!!
I'm having a little moment right now!!!
I'm having a little moment right now!!!
Jim AK said:
Bloody hell chaps.
Steer well clear of that Lardy Cake.
I had a bit with a cup of tea in the Library earlier, laying a bit heavy I can tell you!
Think il give dinner a miss tonight now.
That may be because Mrs B uses only the finest Aberdeen Angus lard in EACH lardy cake I believe it is a 50/50 mix with the sugar!!!!Steer well clear of that Lardy Cake.
I had a bit with a cup of tea in the Library earlier, laying a bit heavy I can tell you!
Think il give dinner a miss tonight now.
DickyC said:
Bomma and Pushfit might tell you the story of repatriating his Lordship's body with minimum red tape and maximum skullduggery during the Monaco Grand Prix. I forget which one.
It's why he's under the compost heap. One of the reasons anyway.
There lies a tale. An operation of considerable magnitude, still beggars belief how we got the boat into the harbour in the dark without incident.It's why he's under the compost heap. One of the reasons anyway.
Shame the racing driver's career ended prematurely, it wasn't our fault he came out of the hotel lobby at the wrong time. I think he still does a bit of TV work these days so he's probably getting by ok.
Thank you for the potted history; quite the eye-opener. As a relatively new and somewhat occasional visitor its good to understand a little more about the old place.
Also good news on the Dicky front.
Just checked into a hotel to find that they've put me in the penthouse sweet and there's a complimentary decanter of sloe gin on the side so I'll raise a glass to your health, old chap.
Also good news on the Dicky front.
Just checked into a hotel to find that they've put me in the penthouse sweet and there's a complimentary decanter of sloe gin on the side so I'll raise a glass to your health, old chap.
Bobberoo99 said:
Is that ten past eleven or Wednesday the 11th od October, if the latter then they are running a tad late!?!?!? 
It’s an American trolley dolly so it’s the 10th November. She’s doing to be desperately needed by then what with the boistousness that ensued when her predecessor Tracey ‘The Tart With The Cart’ did it wearing a plastic bikini and waders. I haven’t got over the piles yet.V6Pushfit said:
And lastly in my trilogy- off work tomorrow for the first time this year going, to somewhere bleak on Saturday for a 20 mike walk and then back to pack to go on hols for a week.
Actually I’m going into work tomorrow morning so I even got that wrong dammit
20 mike walk?Actually I’m going into work tomorrow morning so I even got that wrong dammit
Some sort of mobile Karaoke thing, Walkie Talkie?
Sounds bloody awful!
Bomma220 said:
DickyC said:
Mrs Brassington as a young woman.
Do you realise the fifth wheel would have the Quadrilogy disbarred in some Rural Hundreds?
There can't be too many of them around these days.
WOW!! Never seen a Quadrifogliological post before!!!! Mind you I can only count to 9 on a good day!!! Drinking a beer in your honour Dicky, as for you Pushfit, interesting story about the trolley tart, but pull yourself together man never, and I mean NEVER show weakness to the fairer sex, they're like wolves and will pounce on it mercilessly, DRFC, a decanter of sloe gin huh? Don't mind if I do, cheers 
, JIMAK karaoke is wrong at any time let alone when using walkie talkie!!!!
, JIMAK karaoke is wrong at any time let alone when using walkie talkie!!!! Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff