Some rather nice pictures of Kate Garraway and her impressive chest I found on the net yesterday!

Except that –
1) Some were taken prisoner (including the commander & his deputy), & survived.
2) Some others (mostly Indian, 2840 of the soldiers: 690 were British) survived the freezing march, escaped the massacre, & got to British-controlled territory.
3) Of those “troops”, 12000 were civilian Indian support workers, families of soldiers, & camp followers.
4) The number sent in was actually much larger, & the majority of those remained in Afghanistan, at Kandahar & Jalalabad, where they not only survived, but after being reinforced, marched back in & re-took Kabul.

I had a feeling that one or two of the 16,500 might have survived but clearly the majority didn’t, it seems as if it is not just todays British soldiers are dying there. How many other conflicts have British soldiers been killed in in Afghanistan?

I know this is old news but does it still count?

The ETPS Hip at Boscombe Down.

There are 2 Sepicat Jaguars, sat on the Taxi way at R.A.F Syerston Nottinghamshire, and they’re in pretty bad condistion, it wasa very sad sight to see it go out of service so early, but thats the way things are, and i hope someone buys some re-builds them to flight so we can see at least 1 or even 2 up in the skies, agian because thats where they BELONG!

I’ve just had a look at them on Google Earth and was left wondering why are they there? It really does look as if the RAF completely forgot about them when they were decommissioning the type and they’ve just been left to rot alone. 🙁

BIG well done to my lovely hubby for his MBE. Is that cover enough broken??

Mrs Fluffy.

Will your username be changing to show your hubby’s honour?

I read somewhere recently Jeremy Clarkson talking about the popularity of Top Gear. He said it is the most downloaded BBC program, is watched by millions on YouTube and nobody has told him about it being taken off air!

Hi all.

Maybe this post should be in the civil section…

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qantas/Boeing-747-338/0635769/L/

I never knew that the B747 could carry a spare engine externally…i thought the cider had gone to my head 🙂

Merry Christmas.

Whilst this seems incredible looking at the picture my first question is why, what is the point of carrying a 5th engine?