Thanks, Mike.

Just finished Harald Penrose’s “Airymouse” and I’m a little confused by his account of the Wyvern crash landing at Warmwell. I quote “When the rescue team found me a couple of hours later, one of the cars collided with a stump of concretre hidden by the tall grass. … Quickly it became apparent that the entire area was thickly patterened with hundreds of great concrete blocks which had been set up during the closure of the airfield to prevent German gliders landing if invasion was attempted” But if Warmwell was operational until 1946, why would they have done that? Did they build the stumps around the open spaces of the airfield when there was a threat of invasion but keep the runway/taxiways clear? Or did Penrose really put the Wyvern down outside the actual airfield?

Mi brane hurts…

It says you can “just about make out voices.” Funny how with all these kinds of things -ghosts, regression, UFO’s etc- there’s always just enough “evidence” to intrigue you, but never enough to actually prove it. Funny too how everybody with a former life used to be something glamorous like a Samurai warrior or a tragic Persian princess and never, say, a Victorian lavatory attendant. 🙂

The one that alights on my mammaries is for Quantam dishwasher tablets where that bl00dy woman tries to sound like the divine Amanda Burton (Silent Witness, Brookside) rhyming it with “Phantom” and drawling about “The Diamond Standard” But seriously, I think advertisers rely on what they call “brand awareness” when we go shopping, rather than consciously buying something on the strength of seeing any particular advert.

Seem to remember it vaguely. Maybe a USAAF publicity picture, or by Boeing, Lockheed Vega? Best of luck with your search.

I suspect if anyone is unbalanced enough to want to go on a shooting spree in a school, no warning like that will deter them; probably just make them go in more heavily armed. This belief that the only answer to the gun problem is “more guns” is not unlike the nuclear arms race in that each side sought to out-gun/out-nuke the other. Now, what did they call that? Oh yes, Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD. Pity it’s all too often innocent schoolkids who pay with their lives for that madness. God bless America.