StickyBlue
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Permission to come aboardHaving lurked in the background for years I have finally decided to register. I joined in 1970 as a J/Bglr and left in 1994 as Bug/Major Training.
Ormande-Dobin (spelling?) was Corps Bug/Major, Tommy Handley Chief Instructor, Cpl/Bug Ron Chandler was there and my Instructor was Jim Trewern. I survived TF in Chatham Band and then up to RAF Northolt spent a while up in FOSNI band, never made it to the west country except for a short spell in CTC and a short spell with 41 Cdo.
Greetings to those that know me and of course to those that don't,
JC Puddle 
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bootybandy
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Welcome aboard John. Keep looking in to see people and post some dits.  
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townsergeant
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Welcome JC...good to have you on board! 
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lesbryan
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welcome JC
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Wee Mac
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Ha Ha, I knew you'd do it eventually !
Welcome JC
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bunky the bugler
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Welcome JC I thought you'd have enough computer time checking out my e-mails
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Nick B
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Hi JC and welcome!
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riknoc310
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At last JC, Great to see you, (Good luck to Harlow T on Sat)
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sticky blue
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Hi Ya JC - you made it at last 
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StickyBlue
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Thanks one and all for the welcome.
Dave you don't think I use up my own time checking your emails, I used to access my personal account at work on the jobs computer until the IT wizards at Force HQ got wind if the inappropriate, un-PC and down right obscene emails you were sending. I've had to do a Race and Diversity Course, CHEERS. (keep on sending them)
Sorry about the handle Tommo, but I don't know who half of the people are on here by there nicknames so I thought I would spread the confusion ????????????
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sticky blue
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No probs. JC - A brace of sticky blue's
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Wee Mac
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JC,........That nice man Deli, will change your user ID if you ask him nicely, or get him to change all the Buglers on the forum, to Sticky Blue. 
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Errol
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Can one just be 'sticky' or 'blue'.
Perhaps the come hand in hand so to speak 
Keep posting John.
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MrJpig
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| Errol wrote: |
Perhaps they come hand in hand so to speak:smt005 ..........
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...........Or a puddle...Welcome JC keep posting and get yer Dits out.
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Bomber
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Hows it going JC?
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Hornblower
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Hey JC!
I've seen yer lurking and I've seen your name many a time on e mails that you send to Tommo - so don't go gettin' all PC on us OK?
From one ol' dogend to another...
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StickyBlue
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Hello Bomber,
Don't listen to Mac, could of done with your support the other night (like RMR Glasgow!!!), I certainly don't consider myself as one of the "D' Block Mafia. Al Blackshaw and I were the two youngest sprogs out of training for quite a while in the Depot Corps of Drums and we were bullied, beasted and generally belittled by Satch, Jock Dunn, Arthur, Maurice Kerr, Tommy to name but a few. Ask Al about the time we were sent to Coventry for going strawberry picking !
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StickyBlue
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| Hornblower wrote: | Hey JC!
I've seen yer lurking and I've seen your name many a time on e mails that you send to Tommo - so don't go gettin' all PC on us OK?
From one ol' dogend to another... |
Hello Stu, not much gets past you ! We did exchange emails along time ago, think it was around the time the clip of that superb young guitarist was doing the rounds,
Dogends Rule - up and at 'em Chatham.........(Port Band-hahahaha)
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2nd Clarinet
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Hello and Welcome JC. 
Port Band Rule...............OK!
Nice to see you finally made it onto the forum.
Start posting those Dogend Dits, we're all waiting..........
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Hornblower
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| StickyBlue wrote: | | Dogends Rule - up and at 'em Chatham.........(Port Band-hahahaha) |
Up and nosh 'em Cosham....
Starboard for me, but we've been through all this before.
I can't believe that nearly 30 years later - we're all still bickering about which half of the band we were in!!!!!! 
Good ol' TF - you had no idea the effect of your port & starboard decision did yer mate? 
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admin
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Nice to see you made it at last JC (JC as in John and not Jesus). No doubt the Chatham dits will be out. I always remember joining Chatham to be told there was a Cpl Bug JC who was there but away at the docs having various surplus bits of his intestine removed and had been for some time!
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Wee Mac
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| StickyBlue wrote: | Hello Bomber,
Don't listen to Mac, could of done with your support the other night (like RMR Glasgow!!!), I certainly don't consider myself as one of the "D' Block Mafia. Al Blackshaw and I were the two youngest sprogs out of training for quite a while in the Depot Corps of Drums and we were bullied, beasted and generally belittled by Satch, Jock Dunn, Arthur, Maurice Kerr, Tommy to name but a few. Ask Al about the time we were sent to Coventry for going strawberry picking ! |
If Bomber didn't go to the RMA, nothing to do with what i said. I certainly do not consider you and Al, to be a member of the D block Mafia. Why do you think that Ron Chandler got us sent to Pompey, so quickly!
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StickyBlue
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HB you really disappoint me. (Were you really that traumatised?)
I dangled the bait but never expected a bite from you and so quick.
I got called into TF’s Orafice when he’d had this brain storm and thought up the idea of splitting the band. He said he wanted to split the Corps of Drums in two along with the Band and he would be i/c Port and the Bandmaster i/c Starboard. Port Band under his control would be the premier band to be in and he wanted me to be his Cpl/Bglr i/c Corps of Drums.
I walked out of his Orafice just managing to get through the door with my swelling head. Soon got brought down to earth by I think the Band Sec Rivs Howgill, he said along the lines of: a certain Cpl/Bglr had only just come back from the bugler’s school of tap dancing (on Roy Flemming’s leg, allegedly) and there was no way he wanted ‘Taff the Bash’ in his Corps of Drums.
So you see I got it by default, you should be glad, you got the best deal and didn’t have to work with him.
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riknoc310
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JC Remember the day it was blowing a blizzard and Jock decided it would be a good idea for you and I to get some cold weather practice in.
You in one set of goal posts and me at the other end of the pitch in the other, playing bugle calls to each other, could hardly see each other though the snow Brrrrrrr
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Wolfy
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Welcome along JC. Out of Lurkdom at last then matey!! I see you have wasted no time in getting yer dits out for the lads! Keep em coming.
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StickyBlue
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Hello Wolfy,
Saw your brother today.........says he prefers DICK
not Richard !
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StickyBlue
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Don't remind me Al or I'll have to book another session with my therapist.
I also remember a day in front of the football Stand playing bugle calls crossways over the pitch with a certain Sgt dashing between us to clout us if, no, when we cracked a note or couldn't remember the call.
all part of growing up and being a Depot Bugler -
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Errol
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| StickyBlue wrote: | Hello Bomber,
Don't listen to Mac, could of done with your support the other night (like RMR Glasgow!!!), I certainly don't consider myself as one of the "D' Block Mafia. Al Blackshaw and I were the two youngest sprogs out of training for quite a while in the Depot Corps of Drums and we were bullied, beasted and generally belittled by Satch, Jock Dunn, Arthur, Maurice Kerr, Tommy to name but a few. Ask Al about the time we were sent to Coventry for going strawberry picking ! |
Me never D Block Mafia, Me K Block kickasses.
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Hornblower
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| StickyBlue wrote: | HB you really disappoint me. (Were you really that traumatised?)
I dangled the bait but never expected a bite from you and so quick. |
Well done JC!
Not much of a bite, but I suppose you take what you can when you play with the big boys...
Stand by - the gloves are orf. 
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StickyBlue
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Stuey Baby, chill out, you bit, but I think you missed the point of the bite, and I think you will agree 'twas about the ar$e'ole in charge of us. Couldn't give a flying fcuk about Port or Starboard and I am not running him down behind his back, my finest moment was at a Band Re-union along time after he and I had left Chatham and he was a civvy, I bumped into him whilst going to the heads and boy did I give him both barrels of exactly what I thought of him and what every body else thought. I think you would of been proud of me. Trouble is I have been prone to engage gob before brain before, but after a couple of pints I just couldn't resist.
All water under the bridge now.
30 odd years ago,
Life's too short to bear grudges.
Keep smiling mucker,
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StickyBlue
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| Errol wrote: | | StickyBlue wrote: | Hello Bomber,
Don't listen to Mac, could of done with your support .................to name but a few. Ask Al about the time we were sent to Coventry for going strawberry picking ! |
Me never D Block Mafia, Me K Block kickasses. |
Waaaaaaaaahh, you crease me up..................
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Wolfy
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| StickyBlue wrote: | Hello Wolfy,
Saw your brother today.........says he prefers DICK
not Richard ! |
Waaaaaaaaaahhhh! There goes another rib!!!
Get Yer Hair Cut Puddle!! I'm a Drum Major now see??!
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2nd Clarinet
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| StickyBlue wrote: | at a Band Re-union along time after he and I had left Chatham and he was a civvy, I bumped into him whilst going to the heads and boy did I give him both barrels of exactly what I thought of him and what every body else thought.
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JC
On behalf of ALL Dogends who 'served' under his baton......Thanks for doing that!
(a little nudge into the urinal would have been a nice ending to your outburst).
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Hornblower
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| StickyBlue wrote: | Stuey Baby, chill out, you bit, but I think you missed the point of the bite, and I think you will agree 'twas about the ar$e'ole in charge of us. Couldn't give a flying fcuk about Port or Starboard and I am not running him down behind his back, my finest moment was at a Band Re-union along time after he and I had left Chatham and he was a civvy, I bumped into him whilst going to the heads and boy did I give him both barrels of exactly what I thought of him and what every body else thought. I think you would of been proud of me. Trouble is I have been prone to engage gob before brain before, but after a couple of pints I just couldn't resist.
All water under the bridge now.
30 odd years ago,
Life's too short to bear grudges.
Keep smiling mucker,
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Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
GOTCHA 
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bootybandy
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Yeah......right...
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StickyBlue
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Ok Stu,
But I'm only a Bugler and forum nubie, now I'm confused 
So I take it, it's not true what you were saying, you were not traumatised ?
You must be the only one I've ever spoken to then that wasn't.
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StickyBlue
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Wolfy - you a Drum Major - WWWAAAAAAAAHHHH
Reminds me of another occasion where a bandie THOUGHT he was Drum Major.
Ceremonial Divisions or some Saturday morning passout thingy for Jovial Jack at HMS Pembroke.
CinC Fleet Band (Posh Name) being led by one Band/Sgt pretending to be Drum Major because for some reason the real Drum Major was not available.
Gets to the Band Display and said Sgt does a whole length of the Parade Ground left arm, left leg etc. Don't think the Band or Matelots noticed but the Buglers certainly did.
We were wetting ourselves.
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Errol
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Sounds about right John.
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