Solent60 it was great reading that and god bless your mum and as you say it must have been a worrying time for her..all the very best pal
Thanks & you’re most welcome footloose.
Incidentally; I will never ever forgive Galtieri for invading the Falklands! My ship was due to spend the whole of Christmas & the New Year of 1982 alongside in Hong Kong… three weeks in Hong Kong!!! It doesn’t get any better than that! But no – along comes Galtieri who decides to invade the Falklands and thus scupper my ships’ programme for the rest of the year and indeed the following year (when I had to go back for another tour of 6-months patrol on the same ship because the Navy was short of ships – either sunk or in dock for war repairs). Twelve years at sea in total and I never did make it to Hong Kong. Still gutted to this day!