If it’s a girl, maybe England will be ruled by Queen Jacintha I in 25 years time…

Let me through, let me through – I’m a gynaecologist!

Apparently Photobucket used fotoflexer as a photo editor, but ditched it, causing a lot of complaints…
http://www.militarysos.com/forum/picture-perfect/520700-old-photobucket-photo-editor.html
http://fotoflexer.com/

There’s one hell of a lot of famous names there – and so many photos (new to me) that it’ll take a long time to absorb them. Many, many thanks for that link!
I particularly like this one of ‘Kid’ Hofer…

I agree – 10,000 years after we’re gone, human existence will just be one more thin archaeological layer near the top of the Earth’s crust, with only some of the biggest constructions still showing on the surface.
Maybe some time in the far future some reptilian scientist studying the plastic layer will pronounce that we were very good at fashioning circuit boards…

Hi Andy – yeah I used to be with them in the 1970s. My membership number is 638, which is considered to be almost a founding member these days!

That is true and rather adds weight to my contention that at the present time the majority of people have a desire to “believe” in something.

It’s entirely human to want our lives to mean something, and to believe someone or ‘something’ is looking after us.

Humans are the first species to really become self-aware, and we like to think of ourselves as something special, above the ‘lower orders’ of life.

The truth is, we are this planet’s cancer – the one species Mother Earth could safely do without. We can buy big houses, have ‘important’ jobs, dress in the finest clothes, and evolve complex technical societies, but when you think of all the billions of galaxies out there, each with their own billions of star/planet systems like ours, a human life (or even every human on the planet) is really of no more consequence or importance than any grain of sand on a beach.

So Al, what are you going to do with the rest of your life??

I have plenty of stuff to do around the house and garden, and my two German Shepherds need country walks every day. I’m also rebuilding my old Harley over the winter, and finishing another smaller Harley too.

I actually retired 2 years ago, but due to staff shortages they asked me back on a six month contract. I certainly won’t miss the job, but I will miss my colleagues, and working with the RAF – here’s the view from my office balcony, looking north west, I took on my last day…

and looking south – nice comparison to a photo taken 49 years ago…