Norman_Conquest
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I was at my dad's yesterday and I was chatting away with him about old facts and was telling him about a fact I had read in The Guardian about a Japanese man who survived two atomic bombs in three days. Having been two miles away from ground zero in Hiroshima and spent the night in a shelter, Tsutomu Yamaguchi miraculously found some trains still running. He duly boarded the train to Nagasaki, limped to the hospital and then went to work. After being quizzed about the Hiroshima blast, he looked out of the window to see flashes of iridescent light and a mushroom cloud enveloping the city. Yamaguchi lived until he was 93 and appeared in New York at the UN to campaign for nuclear disarmament. What are the odds?
My dad asks if I could remember the Live Letters Page in the Daily Mirror under the heading of 'Old Codgers', he disappears for a few minutes and comes back with The Old Codgers, Little Black Book.
Now I remember this book being in most bait cabins when I was at Smith's Dock, it is full of old facts and tales and was the bible for ending any disputes during a lunch break. The book has a chapter on colourful characters but this one caught my eye and also that of the wife when she flicked through.
Hopefully, you will be able to read it from the pictures.
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My dad asks if I could remember the Live Letters Page in the Daily Mirror under the heading of 'Old Codgers', he disappears for a few minutes and comes back with The Old Codgers, Little Black Book.
Now I remember this book being in most bait cabins when I was at Smith's Dock, it is full of old facts and tales and was the bible for ending any disputes during a lunch break. The book has a chapter on colourful characters but this one caught my eye and also that of the wife when she flicked through.
Hopefully, you will be able to read it from the pictures.
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