Whitey Grandad

Not us alone. We couldn’t come close to doing that by ourselves.

It’s a religion.

‘UK’

Then ask yourself why it is released to the media? Im not a climate change sceptic. Of course the climate is changing. It always has and it always will.

Net Zero. Preparing us for a poorer lifestyle.

That depends on where you live.

They aren’t alarming but the way they are reported is intended to be so. The question is why so? There is an agenda at work here.

These figures are for the UK.

“records dating back to 1884” That doesn’t sound as alarming as “warmest on record” The Met Office has an agenda. As does everybody. Always look behind the headlines.

I discussed this matter with someone from Eastleigh Council who was looking at sites for a new stadium. He explained that a club like Manchester United did not want the majority of their crowd to be the same people turning up to every home game. The occasional fans will buy up all the merchandise they can get their hands on. The shirts, the Bobby Charlton mugs, the Ryan Giggs bedsheets complete with realistic stains…

But was that his choice alone or was he doing what he had been instructed?

My dad was RAF ground crew in Coastal Command in Scotland. He was an instrument technician on Beaufighters and Mosquitoes servicing the autopilots mainly which he called ‘George’. My mum’s eldest brother was in the army in jungle in the Far East. He didn’t say anything to me about his time there but my mum said it was very bad. He was shot in the thigh in a canoe on a river and said that had experienced hand to hand fighting in the pitch black night not knowing whether he was fighting the Japanese or his own mates. Back home he would wake up in the night screaming. My mum’s younger brother was in armoured cars in the RAF regiment guarding airfields. He hated the Japanese. At the end of the war he visited Belsen. He never had any children and I think that influenced his decision. My wife’s father was in the Eight Army in North Africa and was there for four years without coming home once. He was at the Battle of Alamein. My wife’s mother was a switchboard operator at The Admiralty. She would listen in when the King called Mountbatten. ”Hello Dicky” ”Hello Bertie” We are steadily losing such people and their memories.

Some D-Day evidence close to me. Chandlers Ford was a large staging area for troops in the days leadng up to the invasion itself. These kerbstones at a corner of Lakewood Road display damage caused by the sprocket wheels of tanks as the cut the corner too closely. The beech tree is along Hiltingbury Road and some American soldiers had carved their initials and some sort of badge into the bark. I sometimes wonder what happended to these brave lads.

The grave of Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe himself is in the graveyard of St Andrew Parish Church in Hamble. From 1928 to 1940 he lived nearby at Hamble House. He and his son Geoffrey Verdon-Roe formed Vero Precision Engineering Ltd, manufacturers of Veroboard and other electronics supplies. Several associated companies used to de dotted around our area.

Well he must be good at something then.

Thanks for this, very interesting. No. 38 Chessel Avenue in Bitterness bears a blue plaque commemorating Roy Chadwick who was the chief designer for Avro and lived there from 1922 to 1929. Remembered for the Lancaster and the initial designs for the Vulcan. And of course we cannot forget R.J. Mitchell, “He first lived in Radstock Road, Woolston, and then with his wife Florence and son Gordon in a house built to his own design in Russell Place in Highfield. His ashes were interred at South Stoneham Cemetery. There are blue plaques in his memory at 2 Russell Place and Hazel Road.“ His ashes are interred in South Stoneham Cemetery together with the body of his wife, Florence.

That will just lead to more arguments.

Was he caught driving around in circles?

I always enjoyed watching him play. Thanks Stuey, and good luck with whatever you choose for your future career.

And even Boruc had his howlers.

People who abandon their supermarket trolleys in the middle of the car park. Lazy sods.

Sure, where’s the problem?

Presumably a left over from Take That at at weekend.

The United trouble was early in the season 2022 - 2023 but I can’t remember the exact details. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/20716813.saints-warn-troublesome-fans-problems-leeds-match/ We always used to leave through the north car park but since these matches we have had to use the underpass.

We haven’t been able to walk through the north car park since that trouble with Manchester United.