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Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:28 pm
by FreddBloggs
Or a male nurse on mens medical wards....

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:42 pm
by Purple
That was one time

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:13 pm
by FreddBloggs
And you are never allowed to forget it huh!

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:27 pm
by tim.w
Just got hold of Don Featherstone's War Games - Battles and Manouvers with Model Soldiers. Can't believe the first print was 1962. The section on Modern Warfare details a WWII wargame!

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 2:14 am
by grizzlymc
My dad always called WWII modern.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:53 am
by World2dave
We call 1980s Cold War stuff 'modern' and it's chuffing ages ago.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:02 am
by grizzlymc
I guess dad grew up in WWII, I grew up in the Cold War. We were wargaming Cold War Gone Hot in the late 70s, early 80s, using the kit of the eighties.

To me that's modern and it's only got a few real changes from WWII. Post Y2k it gets hard with a complex set of sensors, tank defence systems and top attack warheads. A millennial would consider it as quaint as I think dad's designation of WWII was.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:04 pm
by Shahbahraz
Etranger wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:22 pm
Purple wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:49 am Man she’s to feisty, I wouldn’t dare
An ex-girlfriend was made an offer when she went to Egypt on holiday,. Apparently she was worth 5,000 camels, which she was led to believe was a considetable fortune. .
Long story, but 'er indoors' was once offered £60,000. My labola was pretty cheap by comparison.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 2:29 pm
by grizzlymc
5,000 I'd accept on the spot.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:36 pm
by Purple
Next for me. We’ve had a few Blandfords but nobodies thrown this in yet. Mines been well fingered.