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[steve66 4,009]

14 hours ago, Bendigo said:

Ancient order of froth blowers.

1920

Just googled it , quite an interesting past , nice find 

[greg64 3,114]

18 hours ago, Bendigo said:

Ancient order of froth blowers.

1920

what i found interesting is that Mad Mike Hoare and his mercenaries disguised themselves as the Ancient order of froth blowers in their attempted coup in the Seychelles in 1981

[greg64 3,114]

1 minute ago, greg64 said:

what i found interesting is that Mad Mike Hoare and his mercenaries disguised themselves as the Ancient order of froth blowers in their attempted coup in the Seychelles in 1981

Associates of Mancham contacted Hoare, then in South Africa as a civilian resident, who eventually raised a force of 43 - 55 men including ex-South African Special Forces (Recces), former Rhodesian soldiers, and ex-Congo mercenaries.^[30]

During November 1981, Hoare dubbed them "Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers" (AOFB) after a charitable English social club of the 1920s. In order for the plan to work, he disguised the mercenaries as a rugby club, and hid AK-47s in the bottom of their luggage, as he explained in his book The Seychelles Affair:

We were a Johannesburg beer-drinking club. We met formally once a week in our favourite pub in Braamfontein. We played Rugby. Once a year we organised a holiday for our members. We obtained special charter rates. Last year we went to Mauritius. In the best traditions of the original AOFB we collected toys for underprivileged kids and distributed them to orphanages ... I made sure the toys were as bulky as possible and weighed little. Rugger footballs were ideal. These were packed in the special baggage above the false bottom to compensate for the weight of the weapon.^[31]

[Bendigo 1,940]

I didn't know that 

[Bendigo 1,940]

Nice little eBay find for £10

[Bendigo 1,940]

1929 scouts jumper. Brother picked it up at a sale today....not sure why but interesting enough 

[eastcoast 4,806]

Reminded of when I was briefly in the Cubs. An older cousin had moved up into the Scouts and he gave me his green jumper covered in merit badges. I ignored advice to remove the stitched on badges and turned up wearing it. The Akela took me to one side and explained why the merit badges must be removed. Fair enough but I didn't like his attitude. Turned up the following week still wearing the badges and that was the end of my time in Cubs. 

[steve66 4,009]

1 hour ago, Bendigo said:

1929 scouts jumper. Brother picked it up at a sale today....not sure why but interesting enough 

Interesting find , some history their

3rd World Scout Jamboree - Wikipedia

[Daniel cain 50,691]

A week before I lost my Dad,I was fishing a mark and caught a decent conger,I was on my own at the time,as I was unhooking it,the top circle hook caught one of my fingers,the eel decided to do a death roll ended up wrapping and pinning my hand to its head anyway I got it unhooked and my hand was sore as f**k.. got back to the car and I ended up leaving a rod and rocket multiplier on the side, realised next morning when getting my stuff out the carwent back and it was gone,I've joined various local groups, offered a reward as they were given to me by my Oldman ,and from a matching pair...choked to be honest...but I found a matching pair of rods on ebay,won the auction and drove to Birmingham at 8 o'clock at night last Sunday to pick them up in person...plan is to get them along with the 1 original ,rewhipped eyed and painted up ,using my dad's ashes...source 2 matching reels and then myself and my 2 lads will have one each