© Lionel Beck - North Yorkshire - UK
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NATIONAL SERVICE
Two years compulsory
National Service in the
Royal Army Service Corps.
I progress from “Sprog” to
Drill Sergeant in the hell
hole that was 2 Training
Battalion, Willems
Barracks, Aldershot.
All the gory details, plus
photographs.
Keith Pritchard
I met Keith 2009. He
was a Tour Manager for
“Great Rail Journeys”
and he added great
value to our vacation in
France, cruising the river
Rhone on the “Princesse
de Provence”. He read
my page on losing my
daughter and sent me a
poem he wrote some
time ago during a low
period in his own life.
CHEER UP!
Jokes, funny stories
and general lunacy
from a variety of
sources, including
those circulated around
the Web
GEORGE W BUSH
(President of the USA
2000-2008) was
famously inept with the
construction of words and
sentences.
Here are a few examples
at which you can now
laugh with a clear
conscience since he is no
longer in such a powerful
position.
Laugh at the quotes and
be grateful that the USA
now has a President
whose first language is
English!
MAD YEAR 2002
For a couple of years I
kept a diary of some of the
sillier and/or otherwise
noteworthy occurrences
both in the UK and abroad.
This is how 2002 looked
through my jaundiced
eyes. The World in the
year after “9-11”
RHONE CRUISE 2009
A Great Rail Journeys
vacation: Eurostar to Lille,
northern France, TGV to
Lyon, southern France,
and a week’s cruising the
Rhône and Saône on the
Princesse de Provence.
Notes and photographs.
