Grandpa's Tall Tales(?)

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  1. 2. One of Grandpa’s army colleagues had a serious accident. He lost his ________ in a hedge and had to have it sown back on.
  2. 3. Grandpa often boasts that he got bitten by an _______ when swimming in the sea off Malta.
  3. 5. Grandpa has spent countless hours in the garden with his hose at the ready, trying to shoot at any ________ that make the mistake of entering.
  4. 7. In the navy, Grandpa played several sports including rugby and volleyball; however, he was most fond of ______.
  5. 10. Grandpa had ‘shrapnel’ removed from his ________.
  6. 11. When sailing in the Philippines during a storm, a shark washed aboard Grandpa’s ship and activated the “________ ________ ________ ________” announcement.
  7. 12. Grandpa found a ________ ________ in his friend’s toolbox in Seylan.
  8. 14. It’s been said Grandpa has two speeds: ________ ________ and ________.
  9. 18. Grandpa did what to help, after Nan and Dianna fell backwards on a park bench in Norway?
  10. 19. In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. Not far behind him, Grandpa join the Navy in the year nineteen ________ ________.
  11. 23. Grandpa called Mark’s first girlfriend ________ ________ because she was very thin.
  12. 24. “If you spill something I will hit you with the force of "________ ________”.
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  1. 1. A waitress in Abu Dhabi thought that Grandpa reminded her of her father because of his ________ old ________ .
  2. 4. What festive item did Grandpa’s boys steal for him from the mess?
  3. 6. Did you know Grandpa is bilingual, he always says ________ ________ ________ in French, when dinner is ready.
  4. 8. Grandpa’s favourite treat when he visits Portsmouth, if Nan gives him his pocket money, is a nice order of ________ .
  5. 9. Grandpa’s nickname for Dianna growing up was ________ ________.
  6. 13. A picture of which ship was Grandpa allowed to have over the fire place in the lounge for two years?
  7. 15. Name a ‘fish’ beginning with ‘w’.
  8. 16. Who saved Grandpa from having to pay for a broken window at school?
  9. 17. Do you remember that time at ________ ________ where Ross fell in the dustbin?
  10. 20. Grandpa has an odd phobia, he is afraid of ________ .
  11. 21. For Grandpa’s 80th birthday, Nick bought him a special present, he took him _______.
  12. 22. Grandpa fell off his motorcycle because he was ________.