Happy Birthday, Mike! Look forward to seeing you soon and hopefully taking you and the missus out for dinner!
Peter

MH, you have slipped back into your old Conningsby spelling – tut, tut!

I was once offered a pink Cadillac for my whisky ration in Bahrain, but turned it down, because I figured I wouldn’t be able to load it onto the RAF VC10 and get it home after the end of my tour!

What am I like?
I hope to give the impression of a knowledgeable, thoroughly nice chap who has lived in Sweden for perhaps too long!
However that’s for others to judge.
In reality I am slightly crazy, much-travelled old geezer who is seeking to settle down in semi-retirement as close to Duxford as possible, therefore I shall be in the area from 5-8 July. You are hereby warned, I shall be traversing those quiet country lanes in a rented car, and since I have been driving on the wrong side of the road for 30 years, may easily forget where I am! Take cover, folks!

Aha, my first (and last) ski lesson was on the black polluted snow of Zakopane in Poland 25 years ago – the slope seemed to end at Warsaw (about 200 miles away) so I sat down to stop before I sailed off over the edge of the apparently vertical drop and zoomed too far. Never did learn to point them together without the skis crossing over and plaiting my legs! Couldn’t walk for 2 days afterwards, and to make matters worse the instructor spoke only Polish and French, whilst I spoke only English and Swedish!
Stuck to cricket after that, eventually becoming silly mid-on in the Monte Carlo Cricket team (MCC geddit!).
I swear that it’s all true and not a product of my fevered imagination!

I did! Thanks a lot, Neilly, I’ve never seen those pix before.

It’s the young academics here who can’t spell!