(30-03-2025, 01:33 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I have some of that in the cupboard, thanks popeye I will try it tonight. I need a full night's sleep and the cough is a pain.
My Dad left instructions about my naming, I was to be Bruce Michael. Dad got orders for Korea shortly after they married and by the time they embarked Mum was pregnant. Made no difference though, I suspect his seniors were glad to get rid of him, lol. Him being a Scorpio too, and a bolshy Scot as well. My Mum was also a Scorpio, and my grandmother, and her mother, so all in all we think there were probably seven generations of us stingers in a line. I got a 21 gun salute a week or so after arriving, it took that long for the news to reach Dad, the enemy troops knew at the same time and the loud speakers across the lines were full of propagandised congratulations. Hence my Dad ordering the salute which apparently shut them up, lol. Lucky he wasn't court martialed over that bit of nonsense. Still, he did do worse things while over there if his stories were true, and I suspect they were, and having seen the white phosphorus burns all over his back I can understand why he became a very fierce warrior from those trenches, and very protective of the gunners under his command.
We really don't know how lucky we are, being so far from those strife torn years. Long may it be so.
That's a hell of a lot! My great grandparents on my Dad's side were both Scorpio & my Dad had Scorpio asc so he & I got on well. One grandchild has a moon in Scorpio (useless hiding anything from her) & another has Scorpio asc. Still wondering if there might be a Scorpio great grandchild but not so far.
During the war dad was sent to one of the Greek islands, Dodecanese group & when the Kiwis arrived there apparently wasn't a blade of grass left because no supplies had been able to be sent for so long & the people were close to starving so had tried to make grass soup.
Oddly, all the Kiwi soldiers developed massive appetites which disappeared fairly swiftly, so that they had to put their leftovers into the bins.
Outside, where all the hungry kids were.
(30-03-2025, 02:32 PM)kiwimade64 Wrote: Hear! Hear! OHH. ANZAC Day will be with us shortly, another good time to remember to be grateful. Could be worse... we could live in the USA
I'm having a cruisey afternoon and have figured out how I can squeeze three more climbing roses along the fenceBy the time I'm finished, that fence will be smothered in roses over summer.
I know - & I'm frequently thanking my ancestors for having such good sense to come here rather than America.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)