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Post by rj on Mar 20, 2016 14:05:42 GMT
I was wondering if anybody was interested in maybe a coffee and a walk over Easter? Withe the ground now starting to dry out i want to have a good look around the areas of the common recently cleared before the summer vegetation sprouts. I was thinking of Easter Sunday afternoon if anybody is interested?
Rob
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Post by simond on Mar 20, 2016 20:45:47 GMT
A good idea Rob, (I think we may have met a few months ago looking over the fence at BB?) but unfortunately we're away to the sun and the warmth this Easter...
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Post by PB on Mar 21, 2016 0:06:05 GMT
Excellent plan Rob. As a regular walker of forgotten parts of Blackbushe it would be great to have some company on the way round.... Make a change to talking to myself! My circumstances, being Easter, are currently uncertain at the moment so cannot say for sure that I'll be able to join you....Wear old shoes, the dead brambles that cover the place have a nasty way of tearing at all who dare pass by. They may be dead, but their teeth are as sharp as ever...Then there's the adders who'll be coming up for some spring sunshine, rabbit holes waiting to break your ankle and rubble from fifty plus years ago to break the other ankle.. Hopefully the mud and sludge will have dried out by then, but beware the canine land mines!! Talking of canines, you'll find bits of FIDO peeking out here and there. You'll have a great walk, where the main runway used to be sports a length of grass which I sometimes think might be useful in the event of unplanned silence from the propeller end of the aeroplane. The southern taxiway offers a sort of track leading away from where the main apron used to be. Try and spot where the Control Tower stood or where Airwork's complex was.. It's not easy, but where the recent clearance ends there are some old earth mounds and excavations that might be part of Airwork's history.
Hard to believe that mighty transports of the air once occupied this desolate region...
Enjoy!!
P
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Post by rj on Mar 21, 2016 8:17:25 GMT
Simond I would be happy to swap with you LOL! Peter I can be flexible on when apart from Easter Monday. Its just the the Mrs is busy on the Sunday so gives me some free time. I will sharpen my Mk land mind detectors!
Rob
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Post by exeglkflyer on Mar 21, 2016 19:29:22 GMT
Nice idea Rob but unfortunately I'm away from early Good Friday for a week. Going to Devon just in time for the current dry spell to end.
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Post by PB on Mar 21, 2016 21:18:39 GMT
Nice timing "ex"...maybe we can fix a ramble around the ruins on other occasions too...Maybe find a stash of Mosquitoes? Must say that was the first I had heard of a Mosquito burial ground at Blackbushe...Whatever we find, or don't find, the old airfield is always good for a wander, the runways for fast walking and enhanced fitness, the common for slow walking and possible reduced levels of health, injury and contaminated footwear...depending what you step in.
Rob, Easter is looking as if demands on my whereabouts may preclude joining your expedition, but I'll be there if I'm not needed elsewhere. Maybe we should team up with simond and seek the sun and warmth elsewhere....There was one Easter in the early sixties our quiet airfield became more interesting when a USAF Dakota arrived to collect a para team. They still flew Daks back then... It snowed by the way. Oh, and Rob, I'm about to send you a PM!!
PB
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Post by rj on Mar 22, 2016 17:53:52 GMT
Hi Peter no problem, just let me know if you are free anytime? The Mossie thing is a minor possibility. The RAF scraped about 5 before they left and who knows what happened to them once they had done this? Probably burnt and bulldozed into a heap? Nobody has mentioned anything since 1946 so again a minor possibility of finding some metal parts.
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Rob
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 15:40:04 GMT
Going to be a typical Easter weekend weather by looks of it rob and all,Peter they need too clear up some more trees I think,hope,looks nice and clear South East corner by Roundabout now by Cricket hill.
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Post by rj on Mar 24, 2016 16:47:05 GMT
Anybody able to lend me some waders i might need them! Looks a typically awful Easter weekend, great maybe just a sneaky bacon sandwich and a cuppa in the cafe insted.
Rob
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Post by provost on Mar 26, 2016 11:08:02 GMT
Hi Rob
Is the planned walk still going ahead on sunday afternoon, are there any details of times and meeting place
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