Eddie and Helen Grisedale
Just a short note to mark the passing of two old friends. Eddie had passed away a little time ago…
Author: Michael Jackson
Born in Palestine many years ago, Educated? in Birmingham (West Midlands not Alabahma). Left home to join REME JLU in 1960, transferred to Intelligence Corps in 1962. Served with 13 Sigs Regt, 5 Inf Brigade HQ and Sigs Sqn, 9 Sigs Regt, Back to 13, E Troop, 14 Sigs Langeleben, roughly in that order up to March '84. Moved to Northern Ireland, to join my wife Josephine. Fell out with Brits over citizenship (bit like Spike Milligan -'cept I'm still alive - just!) and am now naturalized Irish. Have been with my present company, SOS Group, manufacturing school furniture since Sept '84.
Belfast Christmas Market
Why go all the way to Cologne or Salzburg when you can get the same effect in the centre of…
REME Junior Leaders Unit Reunion 2011 – Stow-on-the-Wold
I flew in to Birmingham and from thence by train to Kingham, via Oxford. All transport on time and clean…
Black Tie Bash at Greenisland, 19 November 2011
Saturday 19 November brought the GIGC annual Formal Dinner Dance. One the shrinking number of occasions at which one can break…
F-AN(SI) BOYS REUNION. 12 NOVEMBER 2011
We’ll blame it all on Ross! All I did was to suggest to John B, Eric and a couple of…
Wyck Hill House Hotel & Spa, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
The Wyck Hill House Hotel was the chosen venue for the second reunion of past inmates of the REME Junior Leaders…
13 Signal Regiment, Birgelen, 1962 – 1982
Finally got round to adding some photos to the 13 Signal Regiment page of this site Click the photo below…
65th Birthday Party at Greenisland Golf Club
The Rankins kindly invited us to the Golf club for a celebration dinner in honour of Helen’s 65 Birthday. Her…
GIULIO PASSAMI L’OLIO, ENTOCENA, ROME
We came across this restaurant on our way from Castel Sant’Angelo to The Trevi. Tucked away on a small road,…
LITTLE CHEF, DREGHORN, off Edinburgh Bypass, SCOTLAND
Hot off the 07.00 flight from Belfast to Edinburgh and having picked up a hire car I was looking for…