The really good news is that our Nigel might be back next year!

Your Nigel perhaps, but clearly not ours.

So our next leader didn’t even win in his own constituency? I take it he is off to the Job Centre at this very minute? I expect a book is in the works. Oh dear oh dear oh dear (to quote the Chuckle Brothers).

UKIP should bring back Kilroy Silk!

Orange is the new purple…

Just to be pedantic, what species of trees are the Eden program planting? Are they native species to the countries themselves? I only say this because I’m not a big fan of the swathes of Sitka Spruces planted in regular rectangular stands across much of Scotland. Such plantations can be environmentally ruinous depending on your interpretation of ‘natural’. Of course, tourists think vast stands of evenly and densely planted coniferous woodland is the sort of landscape everybody from William Wallace to the ancient Pictish folk tramped around in so perhaps all is not lost!

Does the Twin Pin fly?

Foreign muck ! Foreign muck ! You don’t know what you’re missing. Get yourself off to the food counter at your local Marks. It’s all microwavable so, well within your culinary ability. If, after filling your little tum, you still think it is ‘foreign muck’, I’ll pay for it. This offer is limited and all telephone calls will be monitored for safety and staff training purposes.

I will send you my Paypal details later.

I can not deny he was a great talent and one of the few from the 1970’s not to have been tarnished with some sort of scandal.

Astonishing to think that Keith Harris may well have stepped foot in both Stoke Mandeville and the Elm Guest House, but only ever drove his digits up the nipsy of a lovable green bird in a nappy. Laudable really given the climate of the time. :applause:

Orville was of course named after Orville Wright, so it seems only appropriate to move this thread to Historic Aviation. Sadly it looks like Orville has been grounded forever, though some compassionate soul might rescue the head from the textile bank in the car park of the Blackpool branch of Tesco. Will it be seen at the next cockpit fest? 😎

Having to-day collected our Marks & Sparks special; a truly scrumptious chicken tikka masala and pilau rice…

That sounds like foreign muck to me. Are you feeling alright? Was your absence due to a blow to the head, perhaps? 😀

I do wonder if people would be concerned that resources were wasted dragging the Maryland out of the depths of the African desert instead of raising the Do17. Damned if you do…

I found Aeroplane Monthly today and saw the pictures. It looks surprisingly substantial and not what I was anticipating. It does make you wonder if there are more. A techy person could write a programme that combs through satellite imagery feeds and detects differences in adjacent pixels that follow certain trends, and could get this programme to return pixels that conform with the outline of a Maryland. I doubt it would work especially well, but it is an idea I’ve had more than once before for other missing aircraft.

The one in the magazine could well be this one;