Unfortunately the threat of nuclear obliteration is probably worse than it was in those days.
I always thought that it was a savage game between the 2 super powers, there was no way that anything was really going to happen, neither side was that stupid, and don’t tell me that they were, they knew it would be pointless global destruction, I never thought that the brink would ever be crossed by either side, even during the Cuban Crisis.
Trouble is, the scumbags trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons now don’t give a damn, you know who I mean, it’s a worry, I’m quite convinced that something involving nuclear weapons will happen eventually, and it could be anywhere, we are all at risk, and I hate to say that, but what do we do about it, watch News at Ten for instructions!!!

Hi, i have just seen a film from 1984 called threads, it’s about a nuclear attack on Britain, and the aftermath. What can i say?, well it’s depressing, very, but at the same time it’s a program that will open your eye to what could have occured.

Don’t worry, you live in Suffolk, Threads was set in Sheffield, with all the USAF bases in the Suffolk area, they would get the first strike and you would know nothing about it!!!!
There was another film made in the 60’s on a similar theme by the BBC, post Cuban Crisis I recall. This was supposed to be so horrific that it was banned from being shown for about 20 years. When Threads was first shown, the other one was eventually put out soon after, trouble is, I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called, can anyone remember.
For all you younger chaps, living through the Cold War was an ‘interesting’ experience, immediate annhilition was something that you didn’t think about, though the threat was obviously always there.
It was the Cuban Missile Crisis that really brought it home, I was probably 11 at the time, but quite aware of what was going on. I know that my old man was very worried, it was only later that I found out that he had worked out a contingency plan to convert our bathroom into a fallout shelter and had everything ready to move into action. Despite that, our bathroom was in an unusual position, internally on the ground floor of the house, I doubt whether that would have worked, Nottingham was a major industrial city with a large ordnance factory producing artillery barrells, we would have been hammered.

I did have a unique experience though. Quite strangely, during the late 50’s at the height of the Cold War, our junior school had a visit from a group of Soviet teachers on a fact finding mission to the UK. What that was all about, I don’t know, but they were such lovely people, I remember them to this day, no doubt their interpreter and some of them were KGB officers, but they were so pleasant and easy to get on with, it made you wonder, how could they have gone back to the USSR without having a conscience about the consequences of a nuclear war on all those nice kids that they had met, and we made them so very welcome.
Looking back now, we were treated afterwards to a guest teacher from the USA, New York in fact, it must have been devious political dealings at the time, trying to cancel out the ‘Evil Empire’ by introducing the right side of things.
He was a lovely bloke too, had a missing finger tip like Russ Conway.
Talk about manipulating kids, but we all thought that the Soviets were great, we couldn’t see what the problem was all about, but then again we loved the American as well.
Perhaps the Taliban should come and visit some of our junior schools, I’m sure we would all love that.

I haven’t yet received anything, but if it’s alpabetical, theres a way to go yet.
One thing I have noticed however, is that my blocked pop ups have increased from only 6 just over a week ago, ( and that is over 18 months of owning this laptop), to a mindboggling 57 in a week, is this just a coincidence, has anyone noticed the same thing.

The problem with the programme was that they kept going over incident in the aircraft ad infinitum, which got annoying, everytime there was an advert, which was all too often, we had to be reminded of the facts all over again, groan.
It was interesting and believable, but not well presented, apart from those great aircraft shots, I did like the story from the Meteor pilot though and the fact that a Canberra was sent to investigate, I bet that there’s some good stories still waiting to be told.

Only the other night I was sitting out in the garden cooling off, when I saw flashing lights in the sky. No, not another Stansted arrival, I’ve seen them before, it’s tumbling space debris in orbit, booster rockets, all kinds of crap whirling in space and intermittantly reflecting the sunlight, they look amazing, but it could draw all sorts of conclusions from the X-Files Brigade.
The only really unexplicable thing I’ve seen in recent times was something I reported in ‘Spotted’ last year, a very high flying fast moving object with nav lights, now I mean fast moving, without researching what I said originally because there are so many pages on that site, I seem to recall that one of our members spotted it minutes later up in the North East, I’ve never seen anything flying so high and so fast in my life, no way was it a sattelite either, it left a vapour trail in the night sky as well, very odd and unexplainable.

Still in the search for the perfect mildenhall burger.

Don’t forget the Polish sausage either.

Which reminds me, did anyone go to the 4th of July USAF Independance Day bash at Feltwell, not only was it open to the public, but I gather that barbecues were involved, presumably cooked on those old Mildenhall oil drums, what a missed opportunity.

I was astonished to find that only 3 intact Scimitars exist, looking at the markings it looks like the example on USS Intrepid, in which case the picture may have been taken in a store at Yeovilton before she was exported to the USA.

I’ve got a huge barbecue that I bought from B&Q last year in a sale for next to nothing. No doubt, along with previous examples that I’ve bought over the years, it will eventually suffer rust syndrome and end up down the local tip, but at the price, it was worth it.
I also have a portable stainless steel model, it’s circular and folds out to provide 2 grill areas, great for the beach and virtually indestructable, not very expensive either.
I tend to use charcoal briquettes on the main barbie and charcoal on the portable.
This Weber lighting tube is incredible for briquettes, I reckon you could smelt steel in it!
With the weather as it is in East Anglia at the moment, we barbecue at least a couple of times a week, long may it last.