Just an observation about that picture – are firemen (like policemen) getting smaller ?

Do you mean a geiger counter, maybe?

Yeh, something like that.

Spotted – nothing, zilch, nada.
Heard my first cuckoo of Spring about a month ago, seen butterflies in abundance in the garden, had the first fly of the year in the house and the wasps from the nest behind the fascia board are trying to get into my bedroom. Seen a Red Kite over the local airfield, and a couple of dead pheasants in the road.
But nothing interesting aeronautical. Where is everything ?

Edit – just remembered that earlier in the week a Gazelle flew over my house – don’t see many of them round my way, and this was rather unusual in that it had what appeared to be a civilian colour scheme (white or pale yellow upper, darker below).

The Washington Post’s opinion of the haircut story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/03/26/are-the-men-of-north-korea-really-being-forced-to-get-kim-jong-un-haircuts/

I think, John, that you’ll find that he had flown with the pilot – a friend – many times before but only as a passenger, not under instruction. He had handled the controls in straight and level flight and had obviously picked up some of the patter and procedures.

John

I think your request for an ENT specialist has fallen on deaf ears…..anyway, here’s something for the guy with a big opinion of himself

http://www.BBC.CO.UK/news/magazine-26480358

and here’s another interesting news snippet – everything you’ve always wanted to know about earwax

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26527266