Good lord! Roger,

You actually allow Memsahib input to the guidance of your conveyance?
They actually have little ability in the spatial awareness requirement
area. 'Tis a proven fact! Have you ever "studied" a quilt? Absolutely no
resemblance to any sort of map or chart that would get a chap anywhere.
Sort of thing best left to chaps like Mal.



On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 22:35 +0200, John Rabson wrote:
> On 13 May 2011, at 22:04CEST, Roger Lapthorn wrote:
> 
> > I've just finished reading "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax, a
> > must-read book about his imprisonment and torture by the Japanese in
> > WW2 and his later meeting and forgiving his torturer. It had me in
> > floods of tears I was so moved. It was amazing what these guys did
> > to be able to receive an allied signal from the depths of the jungle
> > with next to nothing to hand.
> > 
> I once worked with Sgt Len Beckett who had been an FEPOW. When he was
> a prisoner it was his job to crank the generator with which their
> clandestine radio was powered. He received additional rations to give
> him the energy to do so.  
> 
> 
> He never talked about this period of his life. The information about
> his activities I got from G3HJL who worked in the same lab but was
> even more circumspect about his wartime activities.
> 
> 
> John
> F5VLF/G3PAI

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