Originally posted by SOC
I be cheating…I’ve got a small Weber charcoal grill which fits quite nicely in my fireplace! I call that my “24/7-365 Barbecue Pit” 😀

Hey , that is a damn good idea , any idea where I can purchase one of these , the kids love making toast over the fire , a BBQ would be a laugh !! 🙂

Originally posted by Snapper
I’ve done bbq’s by torchlight during rainstorms in January. I LOVE bbq food.

Been there !! , BBQ in the garage with snow blowing around outside , I HATE BBQ food , but it’s worth it for the drinking involved . Woke up next morning to find that we had removed my shed door and broke it up so we could light a fire in a wheelbarrow – just to keep us warm . Best thing about BBQ’s is the lack of house tiding in the morning , you just throw all of the disposables in your neighbours bin .:)

Been stabbed in the leg with a standard black BIC Biro , can confirm that it was a breeze to get it out , that baby just SLID out , they must be sterile as there was no infection and that wound site scabbed up clean as a whistle . A top notch stab wound . Compare that experience to being stabbed in the same leg with a Stanley knife – wound site would not dry up , infection set in and was on antibiotics for ages , definately an inferior stabbing tool compared to the BIC Biro . If two people dive at you with these tools jump the guy with the Stanley blade first , the Biro wound site will be fine , but just don’t let the Stanley anywhere near you .

Been shot in the same leg , in the same year . 😉

Originally posted by SteveYoung
May I make it four…? 😉

I went up to Binbrook one day while they were filming up there, beautiful hot summers day it was. I managed to get a few shots on old soggy film, and one of them came out with all five B17’s airborne in it. I’ll get up in the loft tomorrow and see if I can find it. The quality’s not so good, but they’re there. 🙂

Editted to add… Come to think of it, I think one of them crashed on landing a few days later. One of the two French ones wasn’t it?

Steve , our paths must have crossed down there !! , I took my future wife on our first ever holiday down to Skegness , we spent most of our time visiting the BBMF , Newark Air Museum and at Binbrook . We saw the smoke when the French B-17 went in – but we assumed that it was the fire crews practicing , wasn’t till later we found that the French B-17 had burned.
We spotted the 5 B-17 formation several times , truly awesome , we went to the BBMF several time and stood at the fence as 474 taxied in , and watched one of the Spitfires fly for the first time after being re-engined with an ex-Shackleton Griffon ( anybody know which one this was ??)

Originally posted by Nermal
Everybody has a sense of humour, don’t they? Seeing a mad fool mad enough to do a mad thing like poll dancing for the forum is worth one burning hot pound coin from anyones fireplace! (Rather see Anna do it, if you don’t mind! POLL DANCING I MEAN, FLOOD! Honest!!!;)) – Nermal

Is that like when you have to vote for a dance ??? 🙂

Was their telly broken ??