:-D :-D :-D Eccovi ancora qualcosa, pero, e un po scottante! Una pulce, stuffa della sua vita, va alla sua agente di vacanze e chiede una vacanza fuori del normale. L’agente guarda i suoi libri e dice, ‘ben, c’e` una qui che ti puo` avere. E dentro i capelli di Paul McCartney, la musicista, va bene?...

:-) Serlilian, can you be a little bit more specific. A meeting would present no problem but where? A pub in England? Or in Trieste in June this year? I live just outside a town called Stockport, which is 11 miles from Manchester. We do have regional get-togethers in various places around England du...

:-D Mr Potter, Larry Southgate here. On behalf of the Betfor Association in England of which I am a committee member, many thanks for having posted that special order of the day on this web-site. I copied it and passed it on to the gent that runs our website. Due to my ignorance of IT it did not arr...

Serlilian, many thanks. Did so and no problems. Ciao, Larry

:-D :-D Un P.P.S, a quanto sorra. C'e` si, qualcosa che si pol fare. Quando e` una compagnia privata, sara quotata sulla borsa di Milano e ci saranno dei 'shares' (azioni) che qualsiasi persona puo comprare. Basti un azione e poi si pol andare alla riunione generale annuale della compagnia per fare ...

:( Un P.S. a quanto sorra. Qui in GB i servizi idrici sono stati privatizzati molti anni fa. Quest'anno mi costera lire sterline 480 per l'acqua che consumero. Pero non solo per l'acqua ma anche per i servizi di fognatura. Ma, bisogna ricordare, che ora e` una compagnia privata che deve pagare per m...

Merci madame. Thanks a million. I'll also post that link on the Betfor Association web-site as we have quite a few RE ex-BETFOR bods in the group. Thanks Lilliana.
Larry

Well, obviously, as an Irishman he would not know what a Dado Rail was, seeing as how they still live in mud huts and stone bothys over there. I've heard they have even learnt how to make potatoes grow again!!!!! Well, they had to, otherwise how could they make potheen?
Larry

:-)Potter, anything you can do to make the writing on that Special Order legible? Can't make anything out even with a magnifier. Enlarge or even, maybe, rewrite it on the keyboard, please? Thanks. Larry

:( :( Just a little footnote to what Gianni posted about he and Yolanda. 25 March will soon be upon me and on 25 March 1951 I married a beautiful girl from San Sabba in the little church in Servola. Sadly to say she is no longer with us, but the memory lingers on. We almost made it to 50 years - jus...

:-D Jon, your tale about the jeep. Takes me back a few years to the end 45,early 46, when my unit got transferred from Germany to Italy and Genova in particular. We were demobbing the South Africans and New Zealanders and sending them home and also acting as Garrison Police. A few of the lads worked...

Ciao Gianni. Quel surprise! Fancy finding you here tonight.
That's something I didn't expect. Omega? Alpha. I've got a very old Bulova that doesn't work anymore somewhere in the house. Nice to see you, nice.! Cheers, Larry

:( :( Quaresima? Lent in inglese se non sbaglio. Altro trucco della chiesa e i preti ****** MOD taiado perchè contrario al regolamento del forum "Xe tignudi come INACETABILI i mesagi che gabi dentro: -insulti e ofese sia verso de singole persone, utenti o no che i sia, sia a grupi raziai, lingu...

:( Mi no so se gavei visto in TV oggi, ma in Inghilterra il governo ha annunciato che il totale dei disoccupati e arrivata a 2 milioni ma questo non comprende loro che non lavorano dicendo che sono handicappati che e un altro due milioni. In febbraio 13,800 han perso il posto di lavor. Dicono che sa...

Ron, nice photos. I remember Goldoni when it was a TRAM stop. But do you know what goldoni means in Triestine? Why the beard? Thinking of changing your religion? Peter, I was posted back to Trieste in 1948 and stayed there till 1953. Didn't get demobbed until 1968. I would love to meet a "Volup...

:oops: :oops: Ron, I have to confess that I cannot recall to memory Maria. "Say it loud and it's almost like singing, say it soft and it's almost like praying" as the song goes. Give me a call on my email - veccio at sky dot com and fill me in please. But you really should join the Associa...

:-D Serlilian - So we must meet for an ice-cream in Viale 20 one evening. However, I must disappoint you as far as museums and art galleries are concerned. I do NOT go to museums (unless dragged in protesting by a lady-friend) and art leaves me stone cold so do not go to art-galleries either. At one...

:-D Serlilian. Mi da l'impression che sei femminile oooops sorry, from your nickname I get the idea I am speaking to a female and having had a squint atyour profile with the web-address including 'marina' I'm convinced. I note also that you have - Interests - Tanti'. Ben, saro a Trieste in giugno da...

:-D Ron, I must plead guilty. I am that Larry Southgate and as a matter of fact I did once live in Southgate in London when I worked in the War Office.. I, too, served in Trieste from October 46 to Feb 47 and again from September 48 to September 53. But does your name figure on the list of members o...

:-) :-) Sono piccolo and Peter G. Having just rediscovered this section which I had thought had been discontinued (comes from senile dementia seeing how old I have become!) may I be permitted to insert a small comment on this word 'mignotta'. Surely the phrase quoted in Latin - filius m.ignotae - me...