Ok then, who woke up on Christmas morning to find a gift wrapped B-36 Peacemaker on the drive, no-one, thats a shame.
Apart from an Ozark banjo, my missus bought me Dark Blue World and the Battle of Britain special edition DVD. I had a quick prevew of Dark Blue World, it looks magnificent, even my missus fancies watching it, and it certainly appealed to her Hungarian dad.
Have just cleared up the dining room from yesterdays feast, and what a get together it was, the first Xmas without my old man but my mother is having fun washing up what wouldn’t go in the dish washer.
Hungarian Joe insisted on watching my airshow videos from last year, pride of place being Ray Hanna in October, I didn’t remember that I had taken such a cockpit close up of him landing for the last time, also enjoyed the Jaguar farewell last March, ‘looks bloody cold’ said mother.
I came into the dining room to find musical instruments all over the place, my recollection of the musical evening last night is a little hazy, and to think we have to go through it all over again today at Hungarian Joes is a very daunting prospect.
At least I’ve got some prize winning black pudding from Ilkeston for breakfast.
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year, lets hope it’s a good one.
By: Pete Truman - 3rd January 2006 at 18:05
Nope, your ma and pa need to be cousins at least and preferably brother and sister.
pre-requisite for banjo playing
Sorry, they were a Notts/Lancs combination, banjo now in bin, now where is that accordion, presume I need a kilt to be able to play that, or handkerchief on head.
My late old man used to play the trombone, apparently he played the last concert at the Crystal Palace before it burnt down, but he was always carefull where he left his pipe.
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 3rd January 2006 at 17:35
Melvyn, why doesn’t my banjo playing sound like the kid in ‘Deliverence’, is it because I’m obviously not a gentleman.
Nope, your ma and pa need to be cousins at least and preferably brother and sister.
pre-requisite for banjo playing
By: wessex boy - 3rd January 2006 at 16:02
Melvyn, why doesn’t my banjo playing sound like the kid in ‘Deliverence’, is it because I’m obviously not a gentleman.
One of the Instructors on 2 FTS at Shawbury was a Banjo Player (Amos, for those who were there…), after one particular ‘Bad Weather Barrel’ and the Sgts Mess bar having shut early (04:30), he then tried to teach me said instrument in the corridor…..I can’t remember the word ‘Gentleman’ amongst the terms used by the other residents…. :diablo:
By: Pete Truman - 3rd January 2006 at 15:54
Melvyn, why doesn’t my banjo playing sound like the kid in ‘Deliverence’, is it because I’m obviously not a gentleman.
By: Pete Truman - 3rd January 2006 at 15:48
OK, stuff work, I’m having a pint.
By: spitzbueb - 3rd January 2006 at 14:34
I got a voucher for a flight in something historic… :rolleyes:
Big thanks to my parents.
Flo
By: wessex boy - 3rd January 2006 at 11:41
I am ‘Working at home’
I need to get my Bookings and Revenue Forecast for Q1 to my Boss by Close of play….luckily I did most of it last week, but he thinks I am very busy doing it today……
By: Paul F - 3rd January 2006 at 11:22
I’m in the office, which is a start…….
Paul F
By: Pete Truman - 3rd January 2006 at 11:04
Anyone bothering to do any work today.
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 3rd January 2006 at 10:11
Well I received Tales of Our Time by Raymond Baxter – an uber hero of mine….heartily recommended…..
TT
By: ollieholmes - 31st December 2005 at 16:38
I also got a copy of Frank Whittle invention of the jet.
By: ollieholmes - 30th December 2005 at 15:38
Ahh yes, the need to move mountains….. 🙂
Yes i do need to, any tips how to? 🙂 🙂
By: wessex boy - 30th December 2005 at 10:10
A, D and F? What key are you playing in? (the key of Yale?)
C Am F and G is good for tons of 50s rock and roll, any three (A, D and E or E A and B) will do you for most other things.
At a Salisbury blues night some months back someone asked what key something was in and the guy said “E’. Since the drummer was prannying about he didn’t hear so asked “A for Apple or E for Elephant” The other guy then said “E, for Everything that is not in A”
Now you have your guitar go and play with as many other people as you can. Get out, go to open mike nights and you will improve far more quickly.
Phil Harding, he of the hat from Time Team who is a regular at several blues nights once said something that is very, very true about playing guitar. He said “Y’know Melv, there’s no halfway house between playing at home in your bedroom and going out and making a tw*t of yourself!”
He is, of course, 100% right.
You know how to live . . .
Melvyn, Sorry you are right it is A, D & E that I am starting with!
I need to practice a lot more before I go public, I don’t mind making a tw*t of myself, as long as I am a tw*t with promise!
I made sure that I practised a lot before flying my Radio Control Helicopter during a presentation in the auditorium at work (much better than Powerpoint!) and at a garden party! 😀
By: wessex boy - 30th December 2005 at 10:05
I will do, i just have to get Wing commander Jonnia Johnsons book out the way and Michael Palins Hamilaya.
Ahh yes, the need to move mountains….. 🙂
By: ollieholmes - 30th December 2005 at 01:36
A good book.. Enjoy it..
I will do, i just have to get Wing commander Jonnia Johnsons book out the way and Michael Palins Hamilaya.
By: J Boyle - 30th December 2005 at 01:35
I received two new books…both very well done (albeit with a couple of production …as opposed to editorial…errors). Since neither type served with the RAF, I’m not sure many on this site will care..but here they are.
The C-82/C-119 history
and the new book on the Boeing B-47 both by Alwyn Lloyd.
IM not so HO: The B-47 was perhaps the greatest leap in design of any military aircraft since the early days in WWII…it pioneered multi jets, swept wings, air to air refueling, accomodations for “special weapons”…all at the same time, all under the umbrella of SAC’s bomber force. Not only was it revolutionary in terms of structure and powerplant, it went on to have a huge production run and (by standards of the day) a long service history. Impressive stuff for a plane that first flew in 1947.
Also, I bought “Headquarters SAC Analysis of B-47 Accidents” a privately published 108 page paperback by Col. Sigmund Alexander, USAF (Ret.)
It discusses…briefly…89 major mishaps involving B-47s from 1951 to 1962.
No photos, but it’s a good reminder that flying complex and demanding military jets…even in peacetime…was a hazardous profession.
By: PDS - 30th December 2005 at 01:30
Spitfire into Battle – Group Captain W.G.G Duncan Smith
A good book.. Enjoy it..
By: ollieholmes - 30th December 2005 at 01:29
What Spitfire book did you get?
Spitfire into Battle – Group Captain W.G.G Duncan Smith
and i aqquired through a bookshop:
Chuck Yeagers autobiography
By: Moggy C - 30th December 2005 at 01:29
Is Moggy’s Dambusters DVD the new version by David Frost.
Not played it yet, but it looks more like Richard Todd on the cover than Tom Cruise. 😉
Moggy
By: PDS - 30th December 2005 at 01:19
Yes that would be correct, and another spitfire book arrived in the post today from my brother.
What Spitfire book did you get?
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