It was a number of years ago at Midland and the Blue Angels were the guest jet team…seems they were very demanding and kinda hard to deal with…so some smartass (or a number of them) went in at night and changed up all the Blues beautifully done wheel chocks and put them under CAF planes, while the CAF’s old beat up, wooden chocks found their way under the F-18’s piloted by the Blues….from what I understand, they were NOT amused….but sometimes that’s what you get when you’re a pain to deal with!

Mark

Robbo…don’t take this the wrong way….but there is nothing in Wales to climb! You want to climb something (and I don’t mean some 3,000 foot high molehill) come on out here to Colorado, to the land of the 14’ers (14,000 foot) mountains, like Long’s Peak, Mt. Evans and Pike’s Peak…now THERE’S some climbing….bring oxygen! (Pictured-Long’s Peak with the B-17 ‘909’ flying by it…we’ll spot you the first 5,000 ft as you start at a mile above sea level anyway!)

Mark

I would be one of them….maybe I’ll fast or nibble lettuce next time I come over. At least I can still see my toes.

Mark

The mushy peas on the fish and chips were tolerable…but I swear I thought it was Guacamole when I first saw it. Remember…they are only peas.

The pub near OW (Richard Shuttleworth’s old haunt) serves a good lasagna, last I tried it…but that was 3 years ago. My friend from the US had a ‘Spotted D1CK’..over here in the US that would be a BAD thing, so I abstained…but she said it was good.

The bacon sandwiches at Legends were good.

We cooked up some Australian steaks (thsi was during the beef scare a few years ago) and they came out alright, I might’ve overdone them a bit…but edible.

The ‘American Steak House’ near Duxford was a lot of fun, but the steaks were a bit thin…but a fun night there with Yanks and Brits anyway.

Cooked Fajitas one night for a party of seven, my host shoved a ‘fajita kit’ into my hands and said ‘There we go..all set’…I informed him ‘No’ and we made a return run to Morrison’s market in Stamford to pick up all the missing bits for Fajitas…it’s a fairly elaborate set up to do, but it was a good night…I realized I’d had a bit too much to drink when I yelled out the back door at a neighbor’s dog “RIGHT! That’s enough out of you!!” in my best British accent…stopped the whole dinner party cold, but got a “Good British Accent!” out of my host…still embarrassed over that one. Loud Americans, right?

Mark

Meteor shower tonight, not supposed to be the BEST one ever, but we’ll be able to se it I think…

Dinner time….down to Wendy’s for some artery cloggers…anyone want anything?

Mark

Three flying Dauntlesses in the world…Lone Star’s, The Chino gangs, and the CAF’s…now down to two…temporarily.

Mark

Noon here in Greeley, CO on the 18th of Nov and it’s sunny with high cloud, about 50 degrees F, not a bad day at all…canadian cold front coming this way, though, supposed to snow this weekend. (noon here means 7 pm UK time).

Mark