Not being able to open the bedroom window due to the heat causing the lock to expand and jam. Which was ironic as you only tend to open it when it’s hot!

The Airfix loft collection would be damn good insulation..

I have a lot of model kits, that I do hope I will get to build, but probably have about 50, saying that though i also have another 20 odd that when 21st century models went bust the home bargains store was selling stock off at 1.99 a kit, these were kits that retailed over £15, so I bought loads and still have them, evil bay prices are creeping back up to the £15 mark at which I will eBay the 20 plus I have… So my 40 quid investment a year or so ago is now worth in the range of £300 plus which is a nice profit. Get that profit out of a bank¡

Do not throw away your old photos, someone I know sold his collection on retirement for some 40k, mind you it was a big un.

Your collection doesn’t count. You intend to build or sell them. That’s valid reasoning.

What an excellent question.

Something I am thinking about at the moment.

I have accumulated lots of things over the yaers and during a recent house move got rid of 30 bin bags full of paper basically from the (old) loft. Consisting in the main of old manuals and course material.

Having now made it past my half century I wonder why I continue to keep certain things. These days I very rearly take photographs of aircraft. I have albums full of the things. Is it time to get rid.

When I fall of pearch doubtless, someone will just put them in a skip anyway.

This is what I mean. When relatives die a few things are kept as mementoes, some goes on ebay, the rest land fill or charity shops. Buying to collect seems to be implying some kind of immortality on the part of the collector. The only person these collections benefit are the people who buy them, ironically to put in their collections until they die.

At around the 2.24 min mark you can see flak bursting in the sky, were they using live rounds for this effect?

Paul

At one of the Great Warbirds Airdisplays they got this same effect by firing fireworks into the sky shortly before the aircraft arrived. Left the same little black puffs.

What’s funny is that I always thought the hanger getting blown up was a model. Did they shoot it in slow mo? The way the tree sways doesn’t look real. I was quite surprised when told it was the actual hanger!

Anyone know what will be flying at the Military Display on the 5th?

Are guns the problem? My father was in the Navy during WW2. He was interested in guns but never owned one except for a very high air powered hand gun. He taught me how to use it. Used to say things like “Never, ever point it at a person unless you intend to kill them”. What he was saying was “look, this thing can be bad if you misuse it”. He allowed me to shoot targets in the garden. I didn’t turn out to be a homicidal nut case, I didn’t shoot people, cats, birds or next doors windows. I was taught to be responsible.

I’m wondering if these nuts are a symptom of modern life, modern capitalism. We have lives where we want for nothing and pretty much have it all. Are these people just frustrated? With no outlet for their energy? Has life become a bit pointless to the point some people just abandon reason and go and kill people – because they can?

Films could be to blame. When I was a kid I grew up on Angels One Five, Dambusters, Starsky and Hutch, The A Team. You didn’t see violence (well, not brutal violence), you didn’t see people getting killed without remorse. There was a moral in the movie. This week I saw a film called Killer Joe where a person is bludgeoned to death with a can of peaches. Perhaps it went a little too far? I already have my moral code but youngsters, I’m not sure?