My father in laws boat, inherited during lockdown, was costing us £500 a month in mooring fees while it slowly rotted
Was absolutely chock full of porn, power tools, dildos, 100s of metres of wire, a massive lathe, the mementos and memories of a lifetime, intimate pictures of one of his oap girlfriends, kinky underwear and clothes belonging to his other oap girlfriend, cameras, cctv, video cameras, tablets, a small library of damp books, OS maps covering nost of the north west and north wales, laptops, and the electric supply illicitly hooked up to ,the marinas power own supply(my brother in law had to do a dangerous night time disconnect) also a 4x4, a camper van another small boat, a motorbike, a container with a tank of red diesel, a jet ski, more power tools, scaffolding polls, anchors, electric gizmos - he loved car boot sales, it took weeks to empty and we eventually sold it for a 5th of ot original value....
Atleast the myford bed hasn't been peppered with hot sparks...
Also "massive lathe" ahahahaha thats a baby.
A yacht full of dildos has to be winning so far.
The late Uncle John, of gas mask and mucky playing card fame, did once own a speedway bike, but he sold it after a fairly massive crash in the early 70s.
He used to live in Gorton and would ride it, illegally, along Hyde Road to Belle Vue Stadium where he would ride it. He never made the grade, but it didn't stop the crazy old fool from having a go.
We also have a photo of him parked up in a lay-by next down to his broken down Bedford camper van. He had clearly been there for a while because he has set up his tent next to it. The van doesn't appear to have a windscreen.
In the photo he is wearing a pink top hat for reasons that nobody can fully explain.
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Also "massive lathe" ahahahaha thats a baby
its massive when you have to lift it out of the hold of a boat with --1ft of headroom and up a narrow ladder then set of steps . ..
Im pretty sure he also had a gas mask actually
the worst thing about the dildos and porn was that my wife went on with her mum (his ex) to clean it after hed died as no one else could get there in lockdown, and she had to dispose of all the kinky stuff in bin bags without her mum noticing,
the safe couldn't open until my brother in law found they right key a few weeks later, opened it hoping for cash or jewelry.... found Hotwives 2 and Ass Invaders 4
Hotwives 2 and Ass Invaders 4
A good away win there for The Invaders
I wonder if he was filming 'Bosun's Mate 3: Come Crank my Rudder'.
I retained a large selection of items. C95 Goretex X3, S10 respirators X2, Couple of lids and the only one i still have to hand, a run/stop key from and FSB2 launcher which is still my keyring many years later. From the father in law there was a Kukri from some time with Gurkhas. That is all I am declaring....;-)
endless 'remove before flight' tags
Just think what you could stick them on....
Alpha Clothing, who do a range of flying jackets have those on the zips on the sleeve pockets of the MA1 and CWU jackets they sell.
I’ve got two different versions of the CWU-45 jacket, a summer version and a winter version, they didn’t have the ‘remove before flight’ tags, but then, they’re genuine flying jackets, they’re made of Nomex, you don’t want a nylon jacket melting on your skin in the event of a fire…
Ebay’s a great source for that stuff, at a fraction of the price. 😁
When my Nan died we found a [loaded] unlicensed, double barrel shot gun under her bed.
My Uncle thinks Grand Dad might have been the inside man on a housing benefit office robbery in the early 1970s...
The serial number had been filed off and everything.
After dad died we were clearing the garage and found a stop watch. None of us knew where it had come from. I noticed an eagle and swastika motif on the dial and googled. Turned out to be a type of stop watch used in the German navy u- boats, used to time torpedo runs. It ran but was very untidy. Sold it to a collector
Just baffled us how it came to be in dad's garage!
… why does that make me think of the scene in Pulp Fiction?
I’ve just finished cleaning out my grandparents house (my mum died in the 90s) I found all sorts of remarkable things, but the one that has me flummoxed is the nicely made black lacquered box about the size of a large bedside clock entirely filled with a mysterious odourless white powder.
We had something similar in an empty house we were viewing, was the vendors father's ashes.
Nah, south east England.
Similar episode involving the CCF, the ranges and a Bren gun at my school, which was in Glasgow. I’d remembered it all as using up the ammunition from the Falklands that was going out of date?
@thelawman - did you go to Wrekin College?
Nope, Adams' Grammar in Newport (as it was then), the 'army' part of the CCF in the late '70s was linked to the now-disbanded KSLI based at Copthorne.
im not sure whether this pertains more to more the gas masks or the contents of Kimber’s ssfe
Update:
Gas Mask sold to a Militaria shop in Arundel. They paid me a fair price and were very easy to deal with. I hope that they can sell it on and make a tidy profit.
I'm just glad to get shut of it and make a few quid in the process.
Update on the update.
The tiny mucky playing cards have been sold.
On ebay we were only allowed to post pictures of the card backs, so I hope the proud new owner is happy with his unseen purchase of bored looking ladies with big 70s hair styles.
Chances are he'll be squinting at them anyway... what with them being so small.
I hope the proud new owner is happy with his unseen purchase of bored looking ladies with big 70s hair styles.
And what if he looks at their heads?
Chances are he'll be squinting at them anyway... what with them being so small
I think that's classed as body-shaming.
Oh, you mean the pictures themselves are small...
The photo from the listing
Did you post them first class as promised HtS? I've already bought a magnifying glass, but they've not turned up yet.
What is the weirdest thing that you have inherited?
A random set of necklace and bracelet made cheap wooden beads on cotton, bought for a couple of rupees in Indian circa 1975. It was named in the will that I (or my shortly to be wife) should have it....
Did you post them first class as promised HtS? I've already bought a magnifying glass, but they've not turned up yet.
You may need tweezers.
