Franser Carpentry
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@ChesneyHawkes @MaskedSingerUK @ThisisDavina @joeldommett @RitaOra @wossy @RobBrydon @MoTheComedian @Rickontour We listened to it twice last night - one from you on Michael McIntyre too! Great to watch you - with your son was it?
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Great to see my old mate #AlexBrooker singing my song! Good job! @MaskedSingerUK @ThisisDavina @JoelDommett @RitaOra @wossy @RobBrydon @MoTheComedian @Rickontour
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@stephaniemain2 How do you measure your nose? Where from exactly? Asking for a friend I believe is what I now say 🤷🏻♂️😉
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@stephaniemain2 Got all five and I feel such a dick now 🤦🏻♂️
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@kathyparsons @mattyparsons I literally received a letter for physio this morning - is this what I’m facing ? 😆😖
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On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.
None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.
The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.
Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.
A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.
On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.
On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:
"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".
On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.
There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.
Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.
A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.
He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.
The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.
It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...
THIS is the reason we wear poppies.
We do not glorify war.
We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.
Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

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@jfordrob Got all excited then thinking you’d bought a lotus F1 car 😏🤪
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@MerielMyers Series 4 and totally immersed! Not a usual thing for me so even better to recommend 😆👍
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@MerielMyers I may be late to the party but YOU. Have you seen YOU!? It’s tricky not to sound like a windup here but that’s the clever thing about the series. Binge watching at the mo and totally addicted 😳😆😁
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@MerielMyers It’s sooooo good. If you get it, the body count and the reference is so cooooool.
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@theJeremyVine Ok ok we get it. You now just film anything for click bait type discussion. Trouble is it comes across so badly and desperate now. Don’t you see that Jeremy?
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@theJeremyVine It’s a city, it happens. You need to find something a bit more gritty. Stop trying to provoke people’s thoughts on mediocrity when there’s really more going on in the world. 🙄
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@ThatEricAlper Radio 2 a few years ago reckoned it was this (radio 2 listeners anyway) “I saw werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks
For to get a big dish of beef chow mein”
Werewolves of London
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@CooperAssociate Cooper Associates has become the naming partner of the first-floor hospitality lounge in the Malvern Tyres Stand at Kingsholm, formally the ‘Abbey Lounge', which is now renamed as the ‘Cooper Associates 1873 Club Lounge’. Just a guess 🤷🏻♂️😉
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@eliistender10 Lion 😳. The only film that had my wife blubbing - you know, out of breath and heaving etc 😆. Still love her though 😁
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