As a confirmed ale drinker and teapot, I don’t like wine anyway so can’t comment on that but I can’t think of another country where you could be served a rare pork chop and it be considered acceptable.

Not the Open Days, but I still miss the Finningley airshows. It’s probably the lack of interesting RAF aircraft but Waddo’s not the same.
I didn’t go until I moved up here in the late 80s. Not realising it ws an all day display we didn’t arrive until early afternoon. Half an hour later, monsoon. Within minutes they announced that flying was cancelled for the rest of the day. Spent a happy hour or so watching passengers pushing their coaches out of the mud.
Never missed one after that. The Blue Angels 0 feet display was amazing. As Skybolt said, the visibility that day was awful with the cloudbase virtually on the deck. Aircraft just briefly appeared through the gloom and disappeared again.

I think one of my fondest memories is of RR299. It was the year it had groundlooped (?) and was supposed to be out of commission for the rest of the season. Late in the afternoon a Mossie suddenly appeared overhead. Made my day.

You bunch of ***********, I haven’t built a kit for years, but I was never anywhere that good anyway.

It’s not nice when somebody points out your shortcomings. 🙁

A couple of months ago Robbo suggested a mass prowl around Newark.
Anybody up for it or should we leave it until next year?

I’ve no idea of the original meaning of pudding but there are more than a few pudding dishes which are savoury, rather than sweet.

I don’t know the term humbles but imagine it to mean offal. I’m fairly selective myself but some people will eat anything.

Not sure I could cope with lard, but beef dripping, that’s different.

What about a nice salad?

And you had the nerve to call us lot pansies!

I don’t like curry, the elephants leg kebab’s a good idea.
Fish’n’chips is good in Whitby, they’ve still got a couple of boats. Kippers good there too, old fashioned smoke-house the size of an outside khazi.

I started trying to find as many marks of Spitfire as possible in 1/72nd scale 20-odd years ago.
I can’t remember how many I ended up with, or built.
Was it the Hasegawa one that came with the optional 2-bladed prop and flat canopy?

I came to a fairly abrupt halt when my Dad found me a Seafire 47 (I think) and a Spiteful, both short-run injection mouldings. They’re still around somewhere, must have another go at them one day.