I had the divine honour to be inside an AS90 when firing. It was heaven.

A 13 hour shoot with Dale Winton, and the same for the next two days !! 😮

I daren’t ask!

Thanks Kev.

My 4 minute walk to work took 6 minutes. (And I sometimes drive ha ha ha!!) I could hardly walk, due to all Saturday and Sunday doing hard labour in the garden. Real hard labour. Finally finished the foundation for my shed/patio. 8 cubic metres of rubble (An ex WW2 air raid shelter made of Engineering brick and a concrete roof) transported in a wheelbarrer 50 feet (And uphill) to a hole that I’d dug already. Once at the hole, it needed further breaking into 1/4 brick size (To be good hardcore). This was done with a 12lb adjustable spanner! The last few courses of brick were burried and I couldn’t swing my Sledgehammer at them, so I hired a DeWalt 240volt breaker, it weighed about as much as Jupiter and set a car alarm off next door!
It’s done now, just need 6 inches of concrete pouring in. I’m geting it pumped, no way could I mix approximately 2.5 cubic metres of concrete and keep a consistant mix through 200 mixer fulls. It would take longer than the daylight…..the first mix would be off when I was still mixing! So, my body….if it had blood in it, it aches. Oh, and I’ve several cuts n bruises too.
(But one hell of a tan, the last 5 or 6 weekends have been scorchio and I’ve been out there in it).

Why weren’t they executed? Good question. Here’s a bit of a history lesson…but since I’m not burdened with a law degree, I’ll keep it short and simple.

The U.S. Supreme Court (by a narrow margin), based on some concerns on how some states differed about what exactly constituted a capital offense…banned the death penalty in 1972-76.
All prisoners already sentenced to death…or undergoing trials facing death were changed to life in prison.

Many state laws were rewritten to satisfy the USSC…and states resumed executions in 1977. (BTW: Not all states have the death penalty).

I see, thank you.

Having unearthed my Jason Bourne trilogy, I decided to watch the whole saga back to back.

One word: Awesome.

Agreed, these 3 films put “Spy” thrillers into a new league. They even made Jimmy Bond change from humour/light viewing to violence.

Bourne was directed by Greengrass, I worked for him many years ago on a film called Resurrected. He’s a good guy.

Great film idea…
Rogue-ish bad guys, beautiful blonds…and helicopters.
Who could ask for more?

Come to think of it it, it sounds like a bad (non-Bond) Roger Moore film from the late 70s…:rolleyes:

Be very careful on the Beautiful blonds bit. The two that were sent over on Grippen some years back looked a bit like Soviet Shot-putters.

Susan Atkins… a member of Charles Manson’s “family” who was later convicted of murdering seven people in their horrific 1969 killing spree… has died in a California prison aged 61.

Atkins who had been terminally ill with brain cancer and had a request for compassionate release denied on September 2… died of natural causes late on Thursday at the Central California Women’s Facility.

The former Manson disciple was one of the most notorious members of the cult and admitted stabbing to death actress Sharon Tate eight months pregnant with husband Roman Polanski’s child as she begged for her life.

Atkins later said she had stabbed Tate because she was “sick of listening to her pleading and begging… begging and pleading… After stabbing Tate… Atkins used the actress’s blood to write “PIG” on the home’s front door
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Atkins was sentenced to death after being found guilty of seven counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to murder… Her death sentence was commuted to life in 1972 when California’s Supreme Court overturned the death penalty.

Manson portrayed at his trial as a drug-crazed loner with mesmerising powers of persuasion… ordered devotees to carry out random killings in wealthy white neighbourhoods in an effort to trigger an apocalyptic race war.

Manson 74 …and three other members of his sect convicted of murder remain in prison.

Manson and his “Mesmerising powers of persuasion”. That kept her off the chair that boils skin. But to kill a pregant woman! Sorry, but this cow should have been fried.
And, why haven’t they killed Manson?