Category: memories

How I gained and lost a girlfriend in a matter of weeks!

How I gained and lost a girlfriend in a matter of weeks thanks to my old car!

There was this absolutely gorgeous, stunning-looking blonde girl who was being trained at the Telecoms training Centre at Bletchley Park whilst I was there.  There were a lot of  girls doing their training in this place, as well as us lads. With all these young girls virtually on the same site, you couldn’t possibly keep them apart. So anyway, one way or another, we blokes got to know some of the girls, and I got to know this girl, this beautiful blonde girl from Glasgow. But she didn’t speak with a Glaswegian accent. She was posh. We were getting on really well, and we were going to meet up after the courses were over, and I was going to invite her down to see me, and I was going to go up to Scotland. 

When it came time to leave on Friday, I said, “I’ll take you wherever you have to go. I’ll take you to the station so you can pick up your train to go to Scotland.”  This is what happened!…………….. Check out this extract from my podcast about the Bletchley Park Telecom Training School and see how she dumped me at a bus stop! 

Enjoy! 

If you want hear the whole podcast and hear of the antics we got up to just CLICK HERE 

Happy Days  – Boyhood adventures!

Happy Days  – Boyhood adventures! This little story describes some of the adventures with my childhood best friend Graham in the 1950s. Those were wonderful days, carefree, happy, fascinating, and full of discovery. We were true adventurers!

I was born in 1946 and I grew up as a boy in the 1950s and as a teenager from the late 50s to the early 60s.  Last year my very best friend from those boyhood days passed away.  Although we’d lost contact with each other  for some of our adult life, we found each other again on Friends Reunited around about the year 2000 and we kept in touch and met each other frequently since then.  I have very many happy memories of our time together and this story is both a tribute to him and what I hope is an interesting and amusing record of our boyhood adventures.  Enjoy! 

We lived  close to the western Surrey Hills south of Aldershot and Farnham. This area became our playground. Much of the story which follows is set amongst these beautiful Hills. 

My very best friend throughout my childhood, right from early days, was Graham Brooks.

Photo of Graham and me when we were small. The edge of the copse is in the background to the right marked by the oak tree. Aldershot Gasometer in the background]

We had great fun together. Once we were old enough, we started to venture out, and this little story describes some of our adventures. Those were wonderful days, carefree, happy, fascinating, and full of discovery. We were true adventurers!  

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