... "Tip-toe through the tulips" was a 'spin-off' modern equivalent, made famous 'n' poplar by Tiny Tim.

SillBill etc.

Just to be clear. My father was a navigator in Lancasters , in the RAFVR, KIA on the way back from Berlin on 23 Aug 1943. I am 75. My mother was in the WAAF as a driver in Coastal Command,(1942 - 1944) driving vehicles from the large bomb trolley trucks to driving a staff car for the CO Coastal command. AVM Sir Phillipp Joubert de la Ferte (I think). I was using shorthand earlier. In my time we had a great rapport with the RAF, from parachuting to helicopter operations and RAF Regiment training , plus being trained (and practising) in setting up a hasty "field" runway to land a C130 at night. That did not stop healthy banter. We used to do PT in RAF Akrotiri and did a sideways "crab - like" skip past the officers mess in the mornings. Sorry that this is boring to non service folk!

"morddwyd- you must admit that "going down the Primrose Path" does sorta have Gay overtones! lol"

Only in this gay obsessed world that we now seem to inhabit.

If I went on about, and constantly displayed, my heterosexuality the way some people do their homosexuality I'd be accused of being a dirty old man.

I have no feelings either way, as long as it doesn't frighten the horses, but it does seem to get an inordinate amount of attention.

John Bunyan. You must be very proud of your Father. He was a man of Class and Discernment in his choice of Aircrew Trade.

flycatcher1

Thanks, yes but 55000 others were KIA and FE's father and many others did an equal or even "better" job. Indeed I think that the whole of the armed forces are an example to us all these days (with a very few exceptions)