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    • GilesG
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      How did you do…or do we wait to the grand reveal?

      No idea, I spoke, I was filmed, I felt awkward, and it was a wrap…..

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      • Paul9221P
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        Hey @Brock where'd you learn to pick mushrooms?  That's awesome!

        @Giles are you going to tell us anything about this lovely object or are you going to make us wait for the airing of the show? 🙂

        Blanket-line all the things!!!

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        • BrockB
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          Very cool G!

          And happy birthday!!

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          • BrockB
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            Hey @Brock where'd you learn to pick mushrooms?  That's awesome!

            @Giles are you going to tell us anything about this lovely object or are you going to make us wait for the airing of the show? 🙂

            A combination of making friends with local foragers on IG and self learning from books.

            Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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            • GilesG
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              @Giles are you going to tell us anything about this lovely object or are you going to make us wait for the airing of the show? 🙂

              The short version.

              We live in what was the Superintendent's House, for the Royal Clarance Victualling Yard.  The guy who the house was originally built for was Thomas Grant.

              In 1844, the King of the French (we could not bring ourselves to call him the King of France) came on a state visit to the UK.  Royal Clarence Yard was where he arrived and was supposed to depart from.  On the day of his departure a storm brewed up and he could not get out to his Royal Yacht.

              Thomas Grant was told to get rid of his house guests (who had come to see the amazing celebrations) because Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Lous Phillipe and a few other notables were coming for tea, whilst they waited for the storm to abate.

              As a thank you, Queen Victoria gave Thomas Grant a silver-gilt Tazza made by Garrads of London (the royal silversmith at the time) engraved with her, Alberts and Louis Phillipe's cyphers, plus the date of the storm.

              Paula tracked the Tazza down a few years ago and gave it to me as a present.

              A bit more about Royal Clarence Yard here:
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Clarence_Yard

              And more about that day:
              https://www.rcmra.co.uk/post/2014/11/28/the-week-when-rcy-was-global-news

              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              • goosehdG
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                That's a pretty cool story and I'm wondering how Paula tracked it down.  Was it still in the local area?

                "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                • GilesG
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                  The first shop I went into in Gosport was the local art gallery.  Richard the owner who is a bit of a local historian had bought it at auction in the West Country in 1996.  He sold it to a customer in about 2001. Richard has become a good friend and was at AR with us yesterday.  Paula badgered him to get the buyer to sell it to us.  The guys said no, and then a few years later phoned Richard up and said, "you know what it lives under the stairs, it deserves to be in The Superintendents House, tell Paula I will sell it to her for what I paid for it"….So she bought it....

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • goosehdG
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                    That's awesome!!  I really like stories like that…

                    "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                    • Paul9221P
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                      That's such a fantastic story, G!  I envy the great history that European countries have.  The city that I live in in the States is barely over 60 years old 😃

                      Blanket-line all the things!!!

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                      • BrockB
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                        Yesterday marked what would have been 39 years of marriage between my parents. So I took my mom out for dinner in my dads favorite car.





                        Afterwards she sent me this text [emoji3064]

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                        • mclaincauseyM
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                          All the feels, @Brock . You can see it in her smile.

                          Love the car and the meal looks excellent too.

                          Think it, be it.

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                          • mclaincauseyM
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                            Wow @Giles that is so cool!!

                            Think it, be it.

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                            • AppfaffA
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                              Damn @Brock - doing life right my man. Keep it up, you are a role model my friend.

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                              • ChapC
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                                Awesome… well done @Brock amazing car. Your dad was a man of taste…

                                God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson

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                                • Paul9221P
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                                  @Brock you are classy AF, my man.

                                  I don't know what's more awesome, that shirt with a hankerchief tie, the car, the food, or you taking your mom out like that.  No, you taking your mom out like that was the most awesome, but those other things were really cool, too 😃

                                  Blanket-line all the things!!!

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                                  • BrockB
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                                    Thanks everybody! I’m sorry to keep pulling at the heart strings but I can’t really help it right now… I’m grateful for you all!

                                    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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                                    • goosehdG
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                                      @Brock  I admire that you loved your dad the way you do!!!  I had that with my Father in Law and not a day goes by that I don't think about him and it's been almost 7 years since he passed.

                                      As far as I concerned keep it up…Share, Remember, and we can all use it to remember what truly is important in life.

                                      The connections that we have with family and friends is really the only thing that is of true value in life.  Everything else is just...stuff.

                                      "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                      • GilesG
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                                        As far as I concerned keep it up…

                                        QFT

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          Well, I made it to Tangiers, and I have to say it was one of the most pleasant & hassle-free journeys I have ever taken.  There was even a taxi waiting for me at the airport that I had not organised…...

                                          Tomorrow morning, my Polish friend who I met in Oman and lives in Paris arrives.

                                          Then the party starts…... 🙂

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          • Paul9221P
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                                            @Giles:

                                            I see you packed the essentials 😃

                                            Blanket-line all the things!!!

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