As I carefully folded back the neatly cut turf, it was as if I had opened up a portal to the Bronze Age...
I do not know exactly what happened that night. One person on their own might have imagined it, but when two people simultaneously witness the same event there has to be something to it...
It was the last thing that I expected to see in the Shropshire countryside. It was futile to try and run, as I was no match for the power and agility of the animal that stood before me...
Buckingham's eyes fixed upon the old man like a hawk after its prey: "May a curse be upon thee for thy treachery," he snarled....
Poor old Mrs Brown's house took a direct hit. I laughed as her wooden leg came flying over the rooftops, clattering as it bounced off the rusty corrugated roof of our toilet at the bottom of the garden...
A rather large. well-endowed lady appeared in the doorway. Why I suddenly thought about Zeppelins I can't imagine...
John had not believed me when I told him that a Mr Crapper had invented the flush toilet, so it came as no surprise that he would not believe the origin of Zippo lighters...
Profiling John
John ( Mad Jack ) was born in Exmouth, Devon. A good, solid, reliable mate, we have spent countless hours pursuing our hobby together. One day, I am sure we will find that proverbial and illusive pot of gold.
This man has led an extraordinary life, one could write a book about him. He has been a Chef and a Master-at-Arms on a schooner sailing the Caribbean, a deep-sea fisherman and a safari guide in Africa.
If I had to take one incident from his life that would epitomize his character it would be the following:
He had been in the pub drinking most of the day and returned home worse for wear. His good lady wife, Dee, (sadly no longer with us) told him to go and sleep it off. Insisting that he was not going out again, she locked the front door, to which John responded: "Lock the front door then, I'll go out the back door." Nothing wrong with that, until you consider the fact that the back door is twenty feet above ground level as John lives in a maisonette; the result of which, saw him fall over the balcony and sustain several broken ribs as well as various cuts and bruises.
Thinking he had gone to bed, Dee got herself ready for her evening job and left home.
An hour later, some children heard John's moans and called an ambulance, which duly carted him off to hospital. Two hours after treatment he was back in the pub for a nightcap, looking like an Egyptian mummy.
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