The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[davieG]

Hear, Hear.

 

[ozleicester]

After 12 months of auguments and delays finally our solar is properly linked to our battery storage.

[bovril]

When I left London last year I got a Russell Square tube station mug to remember all the times my girlfriend and I used to wander round the bookshops and cafes near there on Sundays. Now I can't bring myself to drink from it. Can't bear to look at the name. 

[Wymsey]

3 hours ago, bovril said:

When I left London last year I got a Russell Square tube station mug to remember all the times my girlfriend and I used to wander round the bookshops and cafes near there on Sundays. Now I can't bring myself to drink from it. Can't bear to look at the name. 

Thought it was one of the better well-maintained stations on the underground.

 

 

[Footballwipe]

I'm getting around to framing my grandad and great grandad's WWII and WWI medals. Been years in the making but whilst it's being done I've been doing some family research.

 

It's always been a fun titbit that as a 36yo my grandma and grandad on my dad's side would be 116 and 115 if they were alive today, as they were 48/47 when they had my dad.

 

Turns out my great grandad on my grandma's side also liked to have kids old (with his wife 20yrs his junior) - he was born in 1858, meaning me, someone born in 1989, has a great grandfather born before the fvcking American civil war  

Edited 25 August by Footballwipe

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

I'm getting around to framing my grandad and great grandad

Should've ended the post there, much more intriguing.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

I'm getting around to framing my grandad and great grandad's WWII and WWI medals. Been years in the making but whilst it's being done I've been doing some family research.

 

It's always been a fun titbit that as a 36yo my grandma and grandad on my dad's side would be 116 and 115 if they were alive today, as they were 48/47 when they had my dad.

 

Turns out my great grandad on my grandma's side also liked to have kids old (with his wife 20yrs his junior) - he was born in 1858, meaning me, someone born in 1989, has a great grandfather born before the fvcking American civil war  

My grandad was widowed and married the maid, my grandma

 

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

I'm getting around to framing my grandad and great grandad's WWII and WWI medals. Been years in the making but whilst it's being done I've been doing some family research.

 

It's always been a fun titbit that as a 36yo my grandma and grandad on my dad's side would be 116 and 115 if they were alive today, as they were 48/47 when they had my dad.

 

Turns out my great grandad on my grandma's side also liked to have kids old (with his wife 20yrs his junior) - he was born in 1858, meaning me, someone born in 1989, has a great grandfather born before the fvcking American civil war  

What medals did they earn and do you know their units? Just interested 

[Footballwipe]

24 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

What medals did they earn and do you know their units? Just interested 

Grandad got the Burma Star, 1939-45 Star Medal, 1939-45 War Medal and the WWII defence medal. All fairly common I think

Great Gramps got similar common ones, the Silver War badge, the Allied Victory Medal and the British War Medal

 

Units is sketchy unfortunately, haven't gone in depth, but I know great grandad signed up in December 1914 in Leicester.

[Foxdiamond]

3 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Grandad got the Burma Star, 1939-45 Star Medal, 1939-45 War Medal and the WWII defence medal. All fairly common I think

Great Gramps got similar common ones, the Silver War badge, the Allied Victory Medal and the British War Medal

 

Units is sketchy unfortunately, haven't gone in depth, but I know great grandad signed up in December 1914 in Leicester.

Well Burma was no picnic I would think.

 

The Silver War badge suggests your great grandad was either wounded or sick enough to be invalided out. Apparently blokes would wear the badge on their civilian jacket or coat to show they had served their country and a  honourable discharge. This would stop anyone passing them a white feather. There are plenty of stories of chaps on leave from the trenches going out in civvies and some twerp giving  them a white feather. There is a SWB list that you might be able to find details of. You might also be able to find details of unit etc. Seems your relative signed up before conscription came in  1916. Possibly part of what was known as The New Army that replaced the old regulars and territorial casualties though that early date meant he may have gone over in 1915. Pleased to know you are keeping their memories alive in your family

[Footballwipe]

21 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Well Burma was no picnic I would think.

 

The Silver War badge suggests your great grandad was either wounded or sick enough to be invalided out. Apparently blokes would wear the badge on their civilian jacket or coat to show they had served their country and a  honourable discharge. This would stop anyone passing them a white feather. There are plenty of stories of chaps on leave from the trenches going out in civvies and some twerp giving  them a white feather. There is a SWB list that you might be able to find details of. You might also be able to find details of unit etc. Seems your relative signed up before conscription came in  1916. Possibly part of what was known as The New Army that replaced the old regulars and territorial casualties though that early date meant he may have gone over in 1915. Pleased to know you are keeping their memories alive in your family

Thanks v much, that was helpful. Searched the silver war badge catalogue. He served from Dec 1914 before being discharged in Sept 1917 due to sickness. France is listed as where he saw battle on his medal record.

[Foxdiamond]

13 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Thanks v much, that was helpful. Searched the silver war badge catalogue. He served from Dec 1914 before being discharged in Sept 1917 due to sickness. France is listed as where he saw battle on his medal record.

Cheers. Very interesting. You might be able to find his medal roll card online.  I suppose he may have served with his local regiment. Later on blokes went to regiments that were not necessarily local to them. You might have  a Leicester man in a mob from say Somerset or a Londoner might be in a Lancashire regiment etc.

[BKLFox]

@Footballwipe @Foxdiamond

Great Grandad signing up at that time in Leicester you would assume it would most certainly have been the Leicestershire Regiment (The Tigers & yes where our rugby team got its nickname) that he joined.
The regiment got its Royal title after WW2 1946 - Royal Leicestershire Regiment which then amalgamated with the East Anglian Regiment in 1964 to form the Royal Anglian Regiment, which is when the army really started to break up local regiments.

For awhile the Leicester guys formed 4 Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment keeping the nickname The Tigers before more cuts reduced & merged the Battalions further with the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglians taking guys in mainly from Leicestershire, Norfolk, Suffolk.
Today the Regiments split into 
1 Battalion - The Vikings
2 Battalion - The Poachers 
3 Battalion - The Steelbacks a reserve army

Keeping traditions going B Company 2nd Battalion (internally known as Royal Leicestershire Company) keeps the Company nickname as The Tigers despite the Battalion nickname.

There's a good chance your Grandad would have joined the Leicestershire Regiment if he also joined in Leicester prior to WW2, i know they fought in Burma as i had relatives captured by the Japanese there also.

You should be able to start a search on ancestry military records using their names & Leicestershire Regiment (&/or maybe add Royal for your Grandad if he stayed in for that year after WW2)

Good luck.

[Foxdiamond]

4 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

@Footballwipe @Foxdiamond

Great Grandad signing up at that time in Leicester you would assume it would most certainly have been the Leicestershire Regiment (The Tigers & yes where our rugby team got its nickname) that he joined.
The regiment got its Royal title after WW2 1946 - Royal Leicestershire Regiment which then amalgamated with the East Anglian Regiment in 1964 to form the Royal Anglian Regiment, which is when the army really started to break up local regiments.

For awhile the Leicester guys formed 4 Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment keeping the nickname The Tigers before more cuts reduced & merged the Battalions further with the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglians taking guys in mainly from Leicestershire, Norfolk, Suffolk.
Today the Regiments split into 
1 Battalion - The Vikings
2 Battalion - The Poachers 
3 Battalion - The Steelbacks a reserve army

Keeping traditions going B Company 2nd Battalion (internally known as Royal Leicestershire Company) keeps the Company nickname as The Tigers despite the Battalion nickname.

There's a good chance your Grandad would have joined the Leicestershire Regiment if he also joined in Leicester prior to WW2, i know they fought in Burma as i had relatives captured by the Japanese there also.

You should be able to start a search on ancestry military records using their names & Leicestershire Regiment (&/or maybe add Royal for your Grandad if he stayed in for that year after WW2)

Good luck.

My late older brother did his National Service from 1959 to 61. He was in The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (The Poachers) in 1960 they amalgamated with the Northampshire Regiment (The Steelbacks) to become the 2nd East Anglian Regiment. In 1964 they became part of The Royal Anglians as mentioned by BKLFOX.

[foxfanazer]

Didn't know where to post this as I don't know why I'm posting it because out of context it's probably not very funny. It was one of those police body cam videos from the US where this woman was drink driving and hit and killed somebody on a motorbike. She claimed that she'd shunted another car which had then hit the motorcyclist and then fled but it was obvious she was lying.

 

Anyway, there was this kinda skater guy who had witnessed the whole thing and basically said there was no other car and that the woman had hit him directly.  Baring in mind this has probably happened no more that 20 minutes previously the guys account made me chuckle 

 

"I saw it all man, she's crazy!  I remember her reaction like it was yesterday man"

 

Something tells me he might not be the most reliable of eye witnesses if his memory is that poor . Not sure why I found it so funny but it did make me piss myself 

 

 

Anyway thats my contribution to foxestalk for the day done

 

 

 

 

Edited 26 August by foxfanazer

[Sampson]

Today I learnt that Albatross was Fleetwood Mac's only ever UK #1 single.

 

Odd to think with how many famous songs they've done that have entered common culture that it is a barebones instrumental that was their only #1.

Edited 27 August by Sampson

[The Bear]

12 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Today I learnt that Albatross was Fleetwood Mac's only ever UK #1 single.

 

Ord to think with how many famous songs they've done that have entered common culture that it is a barebones instrumental that was their only #1.

And it was the bluesy Peter Green early lineup and not the insanely populate Rumours lineup that got it too. 

 

They really should have had at least a couple of number ones just off Runours alone. Still an amazing sounding album. 

[Sampson]

19 minutes ago, The Bear said:

And it was the bluesy Peter Green early lineup and not the insanely populate Rumours lineup that got it too. 

 

They really should have had at least a couple of number ones just off Runours alone. Still an amazing sounding album. 

Yeah crazy to think none of Dreams, Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way, Landslide, The Chain, Everywhere, Rhiannon, Silver Springs, Little Lies etc. ever made it #1 given how they're still constantly on films, TV shows, adverts etc. and still fluttering about in popular culture all the time.

 

Can't be many artists where you learn so many of their songs just through cultural osmosis.

Edited 27 August by Sampson

[Foxdiamond]

41 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Yeah crazy to think none of Dreams, Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way, Landslide, The Chain, Everywhere, Rhiannon, Silver Springs, Little Lies etc. ever made it #1 given how they're still constantly on films, TV shows, adverts etc. and still fluttering about in popular culture all the time.

 

Can't be many artists where you learn so many of their songs just through cultural osmosis.

Probably better to build a loyal fanbase buying albums helped longevity. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

And it was the bluesy Peter Green early lineup and not the insanely populate Rumours lineup that got it too. 

 

They really should have had at least a couple of number ones just off Runours alone. Still an amazing sounding album. 

Stevie Nicks and Lyndsey Buckingham were the worst thing that happened to Fleetwood Mac.

 

Really don't like anything FM did post Peter Green.

[Sampson]

10 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Probably better to build a loyal fanbase buying albums helped longevity. 

For sure, Rumours is the 6th biggest selling album in UK history and they had 4 UK #1 albums overall. Was just a little surprised to find Albatross was their only #1 single.

[bovril]

2 hours ago, Sampson said:

Yeah crazy to think none of Dreams, Don't Stop, Go Your Own Way, Landslide, The Chain, Everywhere, Rhiannon, Silver Springs, Little Lies etc. ever made it #1 given how they're still constantly on films, TV shows, adverts etc. and still fluttering about in popular culture all the time.

 

Can't be many artists where you learn so many of their songs just through cultural osmosis.

Was probably about 30 when I realised the bbc F1 soundtrack was not written specially for the programme

[Foxdiamond]

8 hours ago, Sampson said:

For sure, Rumours is the 6th biggest selling album in UK history and they had 4 UK #1 albums overall. Was just a little surprised to find Albatross was their only #1 single.

Probably too much class for a lot of the single buyers out there at the time. Some big hits that made no 1 make me cringe

[tinpot_fox]

1 hour ago, Foxdiamond said:

Probably too much class for a lot of the single buyers out there at the time. Some big hits that made no 1 make me cringe

Penguin cafe orchestra had an insane musical TV special. Made me cringe when I found it on YouTube but it’s impressive that it happened 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Doesn't grind my gears as such, more an irritant so I'll post it here. People referring to press conferences as 'Pressers'

Especially inappropriate too regarding LCFC mentioning a word with 'press' in it.