Is it dead?

Side salad, how disgusting

The token piece of healthy eating

Nothing worse than a Cook running around waving his Chopper.

Remindes me of the Specsavers ad.Gordon Ramsey`s chopper and cucumber....oiuch!!!

Now i am confused.I understood the REME was there to break things not fix them

(Sigh) ... OK one more time I will try to explain the REME function ..

Rough Engineering Made Easy.

Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually.

Len (Ciphers)


Workshop's


In forty two they formed the R.E.M.E.,
They combed the army for the dreamy,
For the lazy and the lame,
For the men who had no shame.


From far and near in herds they came,
To add to REME Workshops fame,
And now they daily swing the lead,
In workshop, billet and sickbed.


Their diseases spread to other ranks,
Especially those employed in tanks,
Experienced scroungers like the rest,
With these men this Corps is blessed.


But when the time comes when you’re in need,
The REME boys will act with speed,
They'll swing a hook and not the lead,
Transport a tank on a flatbed.


Jack up your jeep, change a tire,
Fix your scout car with bailing wire,
Jump with Paras - ride with tanks,
And never ask you for your thanks.


So good luck REME, here's three cheers,
In 2012, it's sixty years.

To Lofty Meadows, a good friend.

Len Payne.

Spelt "Tyre" wrong!

OOps . By my reckoning in 2012 it will be 70 years. Transatlantic spelling is forgiven. Wonder how much of the Corps will be left after the current round of cut backs.

'oops .. you're right BobG .. 70 it is, when I revamped it recently to 2012 I forgot to add the ten years since I last edited it ... I wrote it way back in the early seventies when I was 'Poet Laureate' to the British Ex Servicemen's Association here in Vancouver, Canada ... hence tire, not tyre ... when will you 'limey's' get it right.

Len (Ciphers)