Have now, hadn’t then. Problem was, I had to have the prints by the Friday, and this was, I think, the Tuesday night. I was in on the Thursday morning to reshoot. Oh for 10 minutes and a 30p disc!

OT – whats ‘currently’ the safest method of archiving digital media? I now have 4 copies of the TIFFs – 2 0n CD-R, 2 on DVD-R. Am now batch processing uncompressed Tiffs for two copies of one DVD holding all of them, plus however many CD’s, x2 again.

Then compressed down again onto 1 CD – 2 for me, and a few more to go out elsewhere.

That’ll give me plenty of copies, so should be ok on that – but surely there is a better and easier way?

Phew! Thought i’d have to roll my sleeves up and get my hands clean!

Mind you, have you ever changed a nappy and cleaned a little girl up? If you have you’ll not be surprised that I bear a grudge against my father and brother for not lending me their pressure washers! Sometimes it’s a bit too hard to bear…..especially when it’s in cramped conditions – the car, a toilet cubicle, etc etc.

Nah, wasn’t me. I don’t have your number, and can PM you anyway.

Whats a 172? Sounds like a shotgun.

HANG ON A MINUTE!!!!!

That isn’t me in the back! I was only standing with the camera on the ground! That’s 3 times someones asked now. Kev has just pointed out that it looked like me in the jumpseat. I’m afraid not. Besides, where would I leave Whippersnapper? She certainly would love all the bouncing about but I doubt the CAA would! No, as much as I would have liked it to have been, it wasn’t – and a Tiger Moth is still going to be the first light aircraft i’m going to go up in. (Do it the old way – Tiger, Harvard, – are there any Masters flying BTW? – perhaps save enough and pray enough and I may go further!)

That said, it doesn’t detract from the day – up close and personal at take-off and landing, from a quiet country strip that is on ex-USAAF airfield land (albeit a bomber base, and not one of the runways). No smell of burger stands, no throng of people, no distant pilot. That crackle of the engine starting up and throttling past you, smelling the thing, feeling the propwash – THAT is watching a warbird. You can’t get that at a show. A real privilege to attend something as special as that.

I don’t see why not! I hope you have broadband though!