Hello I would just like to introduce myself to the membership, My name is Brian Farmer I am a retired Ex Commander in the Royal Navy, I cut my teeth on County Class Destroyers as a young Sub-lieutenant (H.M.S. Fife & H.M.S. Kent), After an accident in Gibraltar I found myself working a desk,
I left the navy a few years later and worked as a Teacher in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire alas that was almost as bad as shore duty, I have never been married as my professions always seemed to get in the way, I bought a starter set of "Wings of War" from EBay and have subsequently bought more planes from Amazon, along with a Balloon busters expansion set second-hand yet again from EBay
I joined "The Aerodrome" some months ago but unfortunately I had a stroke which left me with severe hand tremors so I cant make & paint models anymore (an old hobby) I also suffer with short term memory loss, If I'm in the middle of something and the phone rings, that's me scuppered I won't remember what I was doing a lot of the time, as my sister puts it "I'm passed my sell by date"
I read a lot of naval books and keep up to date with the "Fleet" which now I find short of ships and the crews to sail them, Recently I've visited Portsmouth I found H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth quayside, what a magnificent pointless ship she is, would you issue a rife and the say "Due to cutbacks your bullets arrive in 3 years time" a carrier without her airwing is like the proverbial "Chocolate teapot" I'm surprised that the government don't bring back the "Seafires" that would save then a "Bob or two" that's 5 to 10 pence in new money for the younger members.
Brian
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