trivial things that make you smile,or make you feel good

[4D]

Its not one of those big asian ones that have been all over the papers last few days is it? If it is run.

  It was that size! 

[donkey]

Got the same number don't we? Think they have an Algerian who has made the trip.

We are the lowest ranked side in the English league pyramid to have a player at the WC though.

It would appear my lcfc supporting friend is unreliable! Still it's a good achievement.

[@mwooly63]

An 89-year-old Royal Navy veteran has turned up in Normandy for the D-Day commemorations after ignoring a travel ban imposed by his care home.

Police were called to the man's nursing home in Hove, Sussex, on Thursday night when staff realised he had gone out at 10.30am and had not been seen since.

The man has since been named on social media as Bernard Jordan, a former mayor of Hove, and his carehome has tweeted a photo of him.

The pensioner 'went AWOL' wearing his war medals covered by a grey jacket and secretly boarded a coach to France.

Police initially searched the Hove area, speaking to bus and taxi companies and checking local hospitals in case something had happened to him.

Then, at 10.30pm on Thursday - 12 hours after he was last seen - a younger veteran called to say he had met the pensioner on a coach on the way to France.

He said the pair were sitting in a hotel in Ouistreham, Normandy, where world leaders have been mingling with veterans to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Mr Jordan is said to be safe and well.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: "We have spoken to the veteran who called the home today and are satisfied that the pensioner is fine and that his friends are going to ensure he gets back to Hove safely over the next couple of days, after the D-Day celebrations finish."

Chief Superintendent tweeted: "Love this - 89-year-old veteran reported missing to us by care home who said he can't go to Normandy for D-day remembrance. We've found him there!"

Fair play to him

[Paolo69]

Superb story. Good old boy!

[Batch]

[No Longer Posh Red]

I liked the fact that his mates told the police, don't worry we will get him home safe.

Just like when they were young, good on him & them

[fatbasher]

The true Dunkerque spirit in a British Tommy, all be it on the blood soaked beaches of Normandy. Makes you proud to be British doesn't it?

[Flashheart]

I like to imagine his response when he was first told he couldn't go.

He may not have said a thing at the time (I don't know), but his mind must have been saying: "Are you having a fucking laugh nursey, after what I went through YOU are telling me that I can't go"

[axs]

I like to imagine his response when he was first told he couldn't go.

He may not have said a thing at the time (I don't know), but his mind must have been saying: "Are you having a fucking laugh nursey, after what I went through YOU are telling me that I can't go"

It was reported incorrectly, the staff tried to book him on a trip but couldn't get him on one at short notice.

[ron dodgers]

105 working days left until I retire

[Leggett]

approximately 10447 working days left until i retire. I genuinely hope not many of them are at Royal Mail...

[4D]

Approx 8000 days until I retire, be surprised if I  make it. Make every day a good one 

[Reg Smeeton]

approximately 10447 working days left until i retire. I genuinely hope not many of them are at Royal Mail...

I suspect Royal Mail will be gone fairly swiftly....if the Tories can win their first by-election for 25 years, then there's really no hope. You'll be gone by 2017.

[Ardiles]

I did my bit to day for the English Tourist Board, when encountering 2 Japanese ladies on the old coach road remnant which runs between Marlborough and Bath, near Beckhampton....they were looking for the Cherhill White Horse up at Oldbury. I told them I was going that way, making for Morgan's Hill Nature Reserve....looking for orchids.  Now their English wasn't great, but I said I would show them the way, and they seemed interested in orchids. As we went along I tried to explain the differences between the Bronze Age, Roman period, and Iron Age features visible in the landscape....on reaching Oldbury, there are a few places good for orchids, so I showed the ladies Common Spotted, Pyramidal, and Twayblade. They went into paroxysms of excitement in that way that Japanese people do    They were so grateful on parting that the bows, were nearly bending double. I did wonder if the angle of dangle, has some significance....it felt like it should.

Places like Stonehenge and Avebury, although wonderful, have been ruined by over exposure.

I can't be the only one who thought this story was going to take a different direction when I started reading it.  Very disappointing!  

[donkey]

I can't be the only one who thought this story was going to take a different direction when I started reading it.  Very disappointing!   

Nope.