Thread: The Temple of Grockle

etiquette?

why'd she quit?

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

etiquette?

why'd she quit?

LOL...There ya go.....a very fitting start for such a thread, bring it on

Cheers
Mick

good evening and a heart felt thanks to LA to have such an important thread named after moi,I promise to up hold the banter,randomness and pointless information that the skullers looked upon as an escape from the trials and tribulations of every day life.

The Temple of the "Tourist" - That's Cairns isn't it

eh up Grockle when you goin't visit down under?

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

etiquette?

why'd she quit?

well, Barabara Anne Etiquette (RN) Rtd.to give her her full Name,was born in Wigan,Lancashire,the first daughter to mill workers Doris and Stanley Etiquette,educated by the coalman in there coal house once he'd finished his round,taught her stacking and filling the sacks full(nutty slack and dust at the bottom),kicking the tailboard shut with one push and finally on her fourth birthday to drive the lorry(a Thorneycroft Trusty) EED 587.

Following the outbreak of WW2 she volunteered for the Royal Navy as a stowker(from her coal delivery knowledge)still only aged 9 lying about her age telling the billiting officer she was 12,was awarded a medel in late 1943 for catching a torpedo that had entered one of the coal bunkers fired from a German sub(U112)and putting it under her blanket thus saving her ship the SS Ho Har,boarding up the hole in the hull with dried egg powder boxes,the following morning giving the torpedo to the gunnery Mid shipman for his collection.

On being demobbed from the Merchant Navy she stowed away in a box marked Darwin(she thought Darwin in Lancashire not to far from Wigan would get a free trip home)only to wake up in Darwin NT. here she made most of her mistake giving etiquette lessons to all who would listen,latterly here on AULRO forums but at her age thought she would hand the task over to a younger member,being...............

Originally Posted by dm_td5

The Temple of the "Tourist" - That's Cairns isn't it

eh up Grockle when you goin't visit down under?

na then Derek,
I'll pop ova when ar Sig has earned me passage,she's wokin neets at the mo so shunt be too long,al see the soon then

SS ho har reporting for duty SIR hear clicking of heals

off to work,stand easy First Officer HoHAR