I am fine WP840..hope you are ok….nice phots baz…..went back to the Conservancy today…the secretary bird is a hoot!!!

few more shots…..

PM sent chaps!!!

I am a bit accident prone….Many of my stories are a little too embarassing!!!
Anyhoo, when I was 11 I was working in my uncle’s Toy shop in Ventnor on the IOW…..he liked his beer and pipe so when I went there for my hols…..he would go off to the pub…anyway there I was when a yummy mummy came in. She picked up a battery operated toy car which my uncle was giving away free batteries with, and decided to buy it. Ever the boy to impress, I launched into my spiel…..’Well madam, this comes with a free energiser battery….its just as good as Durex…..’ then came a very long pregnant pause followed by her in hysterics…..! That was 32 years ago!!! I can still remember it like yesterday.
In 1991, I was on the ETPS course. We flew up to Ferranti in Edinburgh in the School Andover. On the climb out, I reached for my yellow sponge ear plugs and found only one…so I broke it in half and squeezed each half into my ears….in one ear the compressed sponge went into my inner ear hole expanded and pulled the hwhoe thing into my inner ear where it quickly expanded! Excrutiating…..! No sympathy from the studes as I was rushed to A&E when we landed at Turnhouse!!!!!

There is an article about Billy Fiske in the May issue of Classic and Sportscar.

It deals with his blower Bentley and his friendship with Sir Henry Ralph Stanley “Tim” Birkin…one of WO.’s original “Bentley Boys”.
Happily, his car survives and the author drives it to his churchyard gravesite.

It might change some of your opinions about the young man.

I had and will always have high regards for Billy Fiske, he was like a hero character out of a Boys Own magazine or book, larger than life…..I would truly welcome a film about him…but tell it how it was…no need to glam up his story as it is already so and he was a true hero.

Hurricane Fighter Plane by Alien Sex Fiend!!! A copy was bought for me by a mate years and years ago….it has stunning lyrics like…’come fly with me in my Hurricane Fighter Plane’….oh I wish!!!