Registered to Aeronautical Commercial Office in Dover, Delaware. Unlike them to forget such a lovely aeroplane. Or did they go out of business? Or are they a shady outfit? Right, I’m off to the Costa to stake a claim!

No, that’s not a baseball, although it could be a rough facsimile of a cricket ball.

Nice, and in my opinion well worth twelve quid.

Any possibility of saving that fallen tree Moggy?

Maybe the section with the carvings and preserving it? Or is it too big?

All the ex-RAF aircrew working with my dad for Airwork in Africa in the 60s and 70s who transfixed me, a mere stripling, with their tales of derring do and gave me flights in JPs, DC3s, F27s, Dornier 27s and 28s and Piaggios.

Great men, great tales, great times.

Heroes all.

Fighter Squadron (where P-51s revelled in Nazi colours as the enemy) – or am I going the wrong way totally?

That poster is fantastic! Congrats BIGVERN!

I’m ordering one straight away.

Speaking of which, I’ve never heard of Bren guns being used in aircraft (particularly with bipods still attached), or is it a ground AA unit?

Sorry for being so thick.

And I’ll outbid aj for that to be moved to my office!

It was a honour and pleasure to sit with this man and listen to history being retold.

Ahhhh… brings back memories of when I was a nipper listening to the tales of my Dad’s colleagues in the middle of the Dark Continent. Most of them were ex-RAF pilots or engineers and they kick-started my obsession with all things WWII. Fascinating and thrilling, if not awesome to think of them putting themselves at peril day after day. I salute them one and all.