steve66 4,063 Posted November 30, 2025 Report Share Posted November 30, 2025 14 hours ago, Bendigo said: Ancient order of froth blowers. 1920 Just googled it , quite an interesting past , nice find 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 3,165 Posted November 30, 2025 Report Share Posted November 30, 2025 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 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 3,165 Posted November 30, 2025 Report Share Posted November 30, 2025 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] 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 2,335 Posted November 30, 2025 Report Share Posted November 30, 2025 I didn't know that 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 2,335 Posted January 19 Report Share Posted January 19 Nice little eBay find for £10 14 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 2,335 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 1929 scouts jumper. Brother picked it up at a sale today....not sure why but interesting enough 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,873 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 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. 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve66 4,063 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 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 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 50,939 Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 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 13 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 2,335 Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago I know it's not an acquisition.....but it fits with the theme of interesting items 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 31,821 Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago 6 minutes ago, Bendigo said: I know it's not an acquisition.....but it fits with the theme of interesting items For a millisecond I thought you had a tsantsa,a shrunken head.A death chair is a good find. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 2,335 Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago 5 minutes ago, mackem said: For a millisecond I thought you had a tsantsa,a shrunken head.A death chair is a good find. It's in a local pub 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 29,919 Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago On 15/02/2024 at 19:24, mackem said: I was in a blokes office today,he had a huge Cape buffalo skull and boss on a plaque,he was quite surprised I knew what it was,but what really caught my attention was a lacquered ostrich egg with carved leopard,cost him £40 in Tanzania. I’ve got two in the man cave that my son got me when he was on secondment at the British Embassy in South Africa Cheers. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 53,078 Posted 31 minutes ago Report Share Posted 31 minutes ago If anyone is ever in Kent around the Manston/Birchington area it’s well worth a few hours of your time to call into the Powell Cotton museum at Quex Park Estate……one man’s amazing collection of absolutely everything !…..and I mean everything ! From a stuffed Elephant to Napoleons desk and chair and everything you could possibly imagine inbetween ! What a life he must have lived, you have to see it all to believe it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 29,919 Posted 13 minutes ago Report Share Posted 13 minutes ago 17 minutes ago, WILF said: If anyone is ever in Kent around the Manston/Birchington area it’s well worth a few hours of your time to call into the Powell Cotton museum at Quex Park Estate……one man’s amazing collection of absolutely everything !…..and I mean everything ! From a stuffed Elephant to Napoleons desk and chair and everything you could possibly imagine inbetween ! What a life he must have lived, you have to see it all to believe it. He was educated at “The School Of Musketery” ! Says it all Cheers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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