Don’t run with the herd, they said. Be different, they said.
(Puts on his Kiss Me Quick hat…)
I say how about the Supermarine Seagull V, or the Supermarine Stranraer.
Both magnificent examples of a bygone age – and both, unfortunately, very rare.
Never happen. Thankfully.

Flood (God, I hate that hat…)

I happen to like the Sea Hawk, and it disturbs me that a museum with an (occasional, problematic) flyer cannot see that the more spares it has the more chance it has of maintaining that flyer for longer. Ok, I know that we are talking about the FAAHF and that they have suffered recently so there might not even be a flight soon (pure conjecture on my behalf I assure you). But if they have a problem with a wing then which one are they going to use as a spare – and where will they replace that wing from?
Wrecks and Relics 18 has her down as being on the dump so I assume that she has to be nearly beyond help. Why was she put on the dump rather than offered to another museum? Sometimes words fail me (but not the keyboard).
I use to watch WV911 fold her wings regularly at Daedalus air days, think one of the matelots said that it wouldn’t fly again – but what did they know?
Always surprised me that being such an apparently simple little aeroplane – even with the folding wings – nobody has tried to put one on the civil register and fly her. She can’t be that different to a Hunter, can she?

Flood

Q. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. That’s not Funny!!!

Flood

Lets assume that if they hadn’t reached the ability to fly in imitation hub caps then they wouldn’t be here (if they are).
Wonder what we would say if they only appeared now – flying wheel trim doesn’t have the same ring does it.
Personally I subscribe to the idea that they might already be here but we just don’t recognize them or they really don’t want to be seen, except to the most unbelievable members of society just for a laugh – hell, with our world history of xenophobia I wouldn’t want to appear out of the ordinary and can you imagine what the authorities would like to do if they thought a live dissection of an alien would help find Saddam? US Agent would be able to proclaim that the galaxy was also on the side of right and might, too! 😮

Flood – some would say he is out of this world on a daily basis.

At school I was sent before the head teacher when I suggested that the bible surely should be found in the fiction section of the library, maybe alongside the sci-fi shelf. Someone else was threatened with expulsion for asking the RE teacher if Jesus was born in Bethlehem how come he had a Mexican name? We laughed; we didn’t understand it but it wound the teacher up to bursting point and that was fun.
Look at it from a realistic point of view – IF someone could come back from being dead for 2000 years (and that’s a bit of a coincidence too!) then what is to say that this person isn’t fighting for freedom with the local native people? All those films of the 50s and 60s showing the people as being white Anglo-Saxons were really only for the convenience of American church-goers and American actors – and how many films would have been made had the main subject looked like a Palestinian? Reincarnation conspiracists might even consider that the jews were still trying to carry out what they have been accused of ever since…
And IF he did come back (snigger!) what would he think of the religion today? Lets face it – religious worship is now, amongst others, the preserve of the old and unsound (I once had a boss who, when I complained about the number of hours I was working, said he would prey for me – and he really, really meant it), fanatics who would blow themselves up for a cause or censor school science books, trying to prevent people having sex rather than assisting in fighting AIDS or birth control programs, arguing over gay bishops whilst raking in cash through cable networks, disputing financial settlements with children that were abused whilst in its care.
I don’t doubt that good works are being carried out somewhere in the world by the church – any church – but the church with which the majority of us come into contact through the media really needs to get its act together. The church of England is extremely wealthy but I have lost count of the number of appeals I have attended to raise funds to repair the spire or the roof, for example appealing to the congregation of eleven for £450,000 with the head man talking of encouraging people from the council estate outside to join in whilst we listened for our cars being broken into. The vicar lived in the biggest house on the estate, with a big wall around his garden and security cameras watching his two cars in his drive as well as the church; he could probably watch the burned out cars and boarded up windows of the houses of his flock from the comfort of his armchair.
I saw a TV show a long time ago – probably on Channel 4 – where they talked about contact with other life forms from other solar systems and I believe a priest then talked about converting the aliens to christianity and spreading the good word across the galaxy. Can you imagine the sheer stupidity of trying to instruct someone whose technological capabilities would far outweigh anything we could ever dream of, who has traveled many light years across a universe or two, trying to tell them you are unworthy until you are converted into our church and you should believe our beliefs just because a few millennia ago a man got nailed to a cross? As I recall one of the other guests said that if the visitors had any sense then they would have already shot their own priests before they left – which went down well. But the idea that some man with a gown and a cross would try to impose his beliefs in that situation still shocks me and all I can think of is it didn’t work for the indigenous people of the Americas so count me out.

Anyway.
In my past life I apparently was a female road, bridge, and dock builder in the 1600s in the north of England – ha ha! See http://users.pandora.be/gad/re/engels.html

Flood – ranting and raving about nothing in particular. Again.

😮 😮 😮 “I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.” – August Strindberg:D 😀 😀

When I heard on the radio that the UK heat record had been broken I looked at the thermometer on the dash board of my car and had to laugh.
17 degrees C.
That is what it was on Sunday afternoon in Cornwall – it was hotter than that at night!
Currently in the north wing of Maison Flood the temp inside and out is 25.5C, the sun is out and a neighbour is sunbathing – ugh! (Think well matured beached whale in a bikini, but it stops me looking outside!)

Flood

Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.