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KrisT Sgt
Number of posts : 37 Age : 86 Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia Registration date : 2017-09-17
| Subject: Newton Abbot 17/9/2017, 19:05 | |
| 1955, and we had just finished trade training at Catterick, and were now in the depot NA awaiting posting abroad. Payday arrived and, with my £2.10/ pay I set off, an 18 year old eager to sample the fleshpots. Drinking black-n-tans at 1/3d, I invited an old guy playing piano to have a drink. He asked for a pint of scrumpy, which turned out to cost 8d. So, being a fairly canny Scot, I decided that was going to be my drink from then on. Three pints of rough cider later I was legless. Literally! My head was clear as a bell but the legs just wouldn't work I was stumbling all over the place, Some of my mates stuck me in a taxi, feeling utterly humiliated. So my resolve about cider crumbled and I have never touched the stuff since. | |
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Number of posts : 978 Age : 90 Localisation : Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada V2S 7C5 Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Catterick (1951) - BAOR (1952 -1954)-(Herford - Bunde - Munster) - Japan (Kure) - Korea (Pusan - Seoul) - Cyprus (Nicosia) - Suez Op (1st Guards Brigade) - UK (63 Sigs Regt TA, Southampton) Registration date : 2008-06-30
| Subject: Re: Newton Abbot 7/10/2017, 16:38 | |
| Been there, done that Kris ...... just how do you get over a 65 year old headache .. | |
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Number of posts : 37 Age : 86 Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia Registration date : 2017-09-17
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