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Me and one of my cats lol

Come on, let's see some more New members.

More from me!
#1 is my granddaughter, current Lincolnshire Junior Archery champ. Hope to see her in Brazil, 2016!
#2 is me, wife, my mate Vic from Oz. We were friends and big buds from childhood, same age, grew up around the corner from each other. I joined the army at 19, he left to marry, work and live in New South wales at 22. A few years ago we contacted again and both had life-threatening operations, within a few months of each other, after serious illness. Now he visits us in the spring, stays through the summer and it's like we never were apart. Fortunately he was not involved in the terrible fires that have been happening in Oz. My sympathy to anyone who has been affected by that, btw. Our thoughts here in Pom-land are with you.

Welcome fellow Hoosier.
That is such a good story of friendship. I have a buddy in Cudal NSW who has fires quite close to him.

That is such a good story of friendship. I have a buddy in Cudal NSW who has fires quite close to him.[/QUOTE]

That's 426 Km SW of Tamworth, which to an Aussie is, like, next door!

However, if you have lived in the UK and never been around the world much, (fortunately I have) it seems a long distance.

Yes, a good frienship story, thank you. The way we resumed contact is interesting. We had started Primary school in a Nottinghamshire coal-mining village at 5 years old, in classes of never less than 45 ragged-ass kids. Vic and I lived around the corner from each other, played together, became bikers together, first girl friends at same time. (swapped a few!) It was then a close-knit community, not so now since the pit closed in '89 and a lot of people dispersed.

After Vic left, while I served in various places, we lost touch. Then I moved to Lincolnshire in 2000. In 2009 another old mate decided to organise a Reunion for the class of 1950 and began to pull us all together. Unfortunately, that September I had a bowel disease which almost caused my death, an operation and failed to make the reunion. They went ahead without me, Vic came here to see me and we regained contact, swapping addresses and emails. After the first 2 or 3 emails, I did not hear from him for a few months, then a message to say he had been hospitalised with stomach cancer. He recovered, I recovered, and we resumed or frienship as if the last foty-some years had never kept us apart. Now we are gradually pulling old friends that remain, together. Some have passed away and two are unreachable, but the amazing fact is that some of those 40+ kids from a pit village in the heart of England in 1950, are scattered all over the world. There are at least 2 of us on every continent.

True friendship can cross thousands of miles and many, many years.

Bob out of interest which pit ? I grew up in Nottingham.

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Good to see all the smiling faces

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Welcome aboard.

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This is my Kiddo and I on a Hike. One of our favorite things to do... when the weather allows.

And here is me