Nice pics, Daniel!

I particularly like the Meteor shots – sentimental journey for me, I used to work on that same aircraft when it was VZ467 at RAF Chivenor in 1961-64.
Nice to see her still flying (although she looks too shiny in that Aussie paint scheme – was a dull, faded silver-grey in my time! :highly_amused:)
Thanks for posting!

We (apparently – because there is no way for us to know what ‘normal’ people actually see) just see the colours slightly differently, and can have some issues in discriminating the adjoining bits of some parts of the spectrum.

Moggy

I too, have a colour perception defect (I was CP2 in RAF, failed the ‘coloured dots’ test every time!) that precluded my becoming aircrew – like Moggy, I have no problem in seeing traffic lights correctly, either (although it does create a problem when they are all ‘off’ for some reason :p)

In compensation, I do have a reasonable perception of variations in shades of certain colours, as does my brother who re-sprayed cars (but needed to know what the base colour was before trying to match it).

Filters (left, or ahead) have become less common in cities, however. This is down to the dreaded ‘all red’ that still happens when there are no pedestrians around – very annoying!

I find that cyclists are generally unaware of traffic lights regardless of the colour being displayed.

It’s the land of the ‘free’ – what more would you expect?

Similar things happen over here, too. An ex-copper told me that in his county a copper would leave his police hat in the back of the car, even when in civvies – the unwritten “LAW” was they would be exempt from a ticket if caught speeding or for any other ‘minor’ motoring offense.

It worked, too! (most times). Then came the CCTV, etc.

I was born on 31 December 1939 (and have been Grumpy ever since! :rolleyes:), these events also took place:

Goebbels delivered his New Year address to Germany.:eek:

First flight of the Tairov Ta-3 twin-engined single-seat escort fighter designed and produced in the Ukrainian SSR.

The first prototype SNCASE SE.400-01 made its maiden flight from Marignane.

Oh, and there was a war on, too!

Biggs had to do ‘something’ to get his money: whereas, the Mail article states “… banker Rich Ricci, who celebrated Budget Day with an £18 million shares windfall”

windfall, n, 1. A sudden, unexpected piece of good fortune or personal gain.
2. Something, such as a ripened fruit, that has been blown down by the wind.

1. He must have been really shocked 😮 to get his UNEXPECTED piece of good fortune:rolleyes:.
2. I wish the wind would blow some in my direction!

Could also be to protect the price of the house if builder still has similar, perhaps not yet built houses to sell.

My daughter once ought a property in that situation – no alterations or extensions for three years from date of completion of sale, I believe. She could have sold it unaltered within that period, though.

Sorry, my mistake.

Sorry, CD – it was I what done (wrote) it.

Actually, MY interpretation of ‘lighten up’ was intended to mean “Don’t take it too seriously.”

As for people putting ‘crap’ on government forms – THEY(the government) started it by asking stupid questions on their silly forms, then threatening people with sanctions if they don’t fill out the forms and return them.