War and Peace Revival

[skiprat]

Sorry wrong Rat... Been working for the Queen for the last 30 years!!!!!!!!!!

[bigduke6]

Sorry wrong Rat... Been working for the Queen for the last 30 years!!!!!!!!!!

That would make you a Skint Rat....

[skiprat]

That's why I'm moonlighting at the war n peace.... And do a lot of skip diving.........

[Richard Hare]

Thanks anyway, wrong Skiprat.

My pal was always known as Skiprat for the same reasons. Lived in Scarborough.

Lost touch when we moved to Canada...

All the best,
R.

[skiprat]

Not far off I lived in Loftus for many years...
Just setting off now to descend south. Must remember passport and Kentish phrase book.

[Richard Hare]

Half of the family used to live at Loftus.

Same surname as mine. They also farmed at Battersby!
Yes, need a translation guide for 'down there"!

[Peter Laidler]

There can ONLY be one Skiprat, known unto us as Skippy. Even Skippy the kangaroo took his name from OUR skippy!

[Mk VII]

I arrived there at 07:30hrs this morning, and found the traffic gridlocked at the Jcn.11 roundabout due to the trucks being warehoused on the M20, and the site entrance blocked off with Jersey barriers. I would not advise anyone to go early hoping to beat the traffic. I would not advise anyone to go at all, if they have not already invested money in a ticket. And even then I would think twice before burning several gallons of petrol to sit in the traffic jams - I gave up and went home.

[Roger Payne]

Sorry to hear that Mk7. I went on Thursday with Nigel & we encountered some difficulties due to the M20 closure but all in all the delays only added about 45 minutes to the journey. It's clearly got worse, & fills me with trepidation as I am booked onto the chunnel this coming Wednesday for the Summer holidays over in France. Unfortunately even in between the antics of the French strikers the illegal immigrants are making nightly incursions into the restricted areas of the tunnel compound, all of which obligates Eurotunnel to cease operations for a while whilst they check the area for unwelcome 'guests' in case one the Shuttles splatters any of them.

Didn't find a huge amount at the show, though did turn up three useable walnut SMLE forends.

[Peter Laidler]

Maybe the answer might be to NOT check the tunnel for those poor unfortunates wishing to come to the UK without the usual formalities. After a hundred or so 'close encounters of the 400 ton locomotive kind' the message would get through - eventually.........