"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Spent the day at home with my sick son after a night in a&e.
"Will you stop talking about the war!!"
"What, you started it!"
"We did NOT start it!"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland..."
Hope the poor chap is all right and your A&E is as good as ours at dealing with kids..
'Non adepto demens. Adepto etiam'
War does not show who is right, only who is left..
Cheers, it's not bad but they didn't know what was wrong with him, the dr seemed miffed that I'd brought him in with 40 degree temperature within 30 mins, they asked me how many days had he been like it, he's 15 months old, I'm not playing around.
"Will you stop talking about the war!!"
"What, you started it!"
"We did NOT start it!"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland..."
Totally the right thing wraith 
how dare you bring a little child with a serious temperature, (pyrexia or something mrs porta calls it at work)
there are all the alcohol and drug induced people to treat first for their self inflicted wounds 
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
1 point to Mr Porta - it is in fact a pyrexia. You should've taken the doctors name.
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
the amount of midwife stuff ive picked up by default over the last 2 1/2 years is scary,
i wouldnt mind training for the job myself, but i dont fancy spending every day with my wrist in a wizards sleve, so to speak 
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
... Attended an open day in WW2 kit and had a great time in the sun! The day was made even better by my ever-tempermental PPSh-41 working, and even the fire selector was working- until i charged fearlessly at the enemy with a cry of 'urraaaaah!!!!', pulled the trigger and it fired once. Needless to say i was lit up
Ran the Sheffield half marathon. It was quite warm. 
Cheers
Martin
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" Helmuth von Moltke
Toys: AGM MP40, Cyma M1A1, TM M14/G43/SVT40, TM VSR/K98, SnS No. 4, ASG Sten, Ppsh.
Arnhem3,Gumrak,Campoleone
Just got back from spending 4 days in Normandy for the D-Day anniversary.
Been in Germany visiting the outlawas, went to the Deutscher Panzer Museeum bit like Bovington really good well worth a visit first time I have seen a King Tiger
Managed to 360 degree spin the motor across two lanes of traffic and coming to halt perfect in the hard shoulder. 
Think the grip marks in the steering wheel will be there for a while and i dont want to even talk about the state of my trousers 
bloody brake master cylinder bollocks piece of shit 
Blanco'd and painted some hessian for my MK2-helmet. Looks good now.
Why do you always carry that umbrella?
-Bad memory. Never could remember the password. Knew no Jerry would carry one. Had to prove I was an Englishman, you see.
A bridge too far
took order of some german insignia and dot44 trousers for general skirmishing use
Bigkie sounds like you had fun! 
Did a reasonable sewing job of a (read- rough 'n' ready) collar liner onto my Obr 35. Now i just need some proper collar tabs
Thought I should collect all these photos I come across of WWII Brits with their hands in their pockets and stage an exhibition called “Well Look at That Nowâ€.
Spent the day pretending to throw and then actually throwing various pyro devices for a friendly pyro manufacturer.
aka Stigroadie
AFRA
better by design
"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. "
Packed my M1928 Haversack.
Kit list:
M1928 Haversack 1942, mint condition, original.
M1928 Haversack Pack Carrier, mint condition, original.
M1928 Haversack Mess Bag, mint condition, original.
M1910 Shovel with cover, repro.
US Mess tin, original.
Fork, knife, spoon, repro.
M1 Garand Bayonet, 1942, original
Garand Belt, transitional, original
First Aid pouch, repro
Canteen and cover, repro
US Tent half, original
US tent poles, (probably post-war)
US tent pegs, (probably post-war)
US Sleeping bag M1944, original
US Waterrepellent outer sleepingbag, M1945, original
Socks, towels and shirts are repro
And just where is the greatcoat rolled over the top? hmmmmm!?
I jest, very nice - now have fun wearing it
And just where is the greatcoat rolled over the top? hmmmmm!?
Than first I need a greatcoat Don't have a US greatcoat (only have Russian and 2 German ones )
I jest, very nice - now have fun wearing it
To be honest, it wasn't that uncomfortable to have it on your shoulders. Only heavy..... no pain no gain...