Going back to the engine block colours, isn’t it commonplace to paint them a bright colour to help spot oil leaks etc. I’m sure I was told this on a BBMF visit.
Hi Jim, I will be thinking of you, look forward to you being back on here after you have recovered from hospital food and the stress of looking at nurses in uniform!!
Hi Jim, I will be thinking of you, look forward to you being back on here after you have recovered from hospital food and the stress of looking at nurses in uniform!!
Whilst the early Spitfire, the Mosquito and the Hunter are high on my list, for me it’s the beautiful silver winged Hawker Fury biplane. Elegant lines for a biplane, open cockpit, polished cowling, looks wonderful.
I was told by a friends daughter who worked as a veterinary nurse some years ago that a young lad about 12 yrs old came in with a dog and asked for it to be put down. Questioned why by the vet as he was so young and the dog was healthy the lad told him his mother sent him in because it was cheaper to do this than pay kennels while they were would be away on holiday. When asked if he would be upset and miss his pet he said yes but his mother told him they could get another dog when they came home. The vet took the dog away to rehome it. He reported it to the authorities but I can’t recall the outcome. It beats me how some people can be so cold hearted. Our dog is very much part of the family and we arrange trips and holidays with her care our first prioity if we can’t take her with us.
I was told by a friends daughter who worked as a veterinary nurse some years ago that a young lad about 12 yrs old came in with a dog and asked for it to be put down. Questioned why by the vet as he was so young and the dog was healthy the lad told him his mother sent him in because it was cheaper to do this than pay kennels while they were would be away on holiday. When asked if he would be upset and miss his pet he said yes but his mother told him they could get another dog when they came home. The vet took the dog away to rehome it. He reported it to the authorities but I can’t recall the outcome. It beats me how some people can be so cold hearted. Our dog is very much part of the family and we arrange trips and holidays with her care our first prioity if we can’t take her with us.
Hi bazv, many thanks for the information, I will try to visit, it looks good. Your pictures on the link are stunning, you’ve certainly given us something else to go and look for.
Hi bazv, many thanks for the information, I will try to visit, it looks good. Your pictures on the link are stunning, you’ve certainly given us something else to go and look for.
Iv’e not seen any of the programs yet, May 16 is also our wedding anniversary so we were out for the evening. I enjoyed what I heard of the Chris Evans show this morning driving to work. however, driving home I was listening to Classic FM. They played the dambusters march and said it was in honour of the brave men of 633 squadron.
Going back to the original question, I’m not sure if this is true or a modern myth but I was told that Nick Grace had taken her up in OU-V for a TV programme (possibly Jim’ll fix it!) and had his fatal car accident on the way back. I can’t remember where or who I got this from but it stuck in my mind for some reason. Anyone know if there is any truth in it?
Mine is similar to kev’s. The village war memorial is along the road from my fathers house. As a boy I would visit almost every Sunday morning when we strolled out to get a Sunday paper. We always stopped on the way back and I would sit on it (it is sort of made up of stone layers like steps) and look at the view all around and down to our house. My brother and myself would read all the names on it as we walked around it. Last year, 40+ years on I was again reading the names on it with my son after the rememberance service. I realised that despite reading the names many times I knew nothing about them, so I have begun researching them and included the names from the memorials in the two other nearby villages and the CWGC stones in the local church graveyards. Like Kev I don’t know where it will lead. I have thought about making it into a pamphlet to sell in our village shop and give the procedes to the poppy appeal but at the moment time is limited so it may be a year or two before I’m at that stage.
A recent sad addition to the names is that of Captain James Anthony Townley, laid to rest in the graveyard of the church in the next village (where Mrs Sgt Austin and I got married). He grew up down the road from where I live but I did not know him. He was one day short of his 30th birthday when he died in Afganistan. He was on his third tour of duty and it seems he may have taken his own life. Who knows what horrors this young man saw or went through. He was buried with full military honours.
Mine is similar to kev’s. The village war memorial is along the road from my fathers house. As a boy I would visit almost every Sunday morning when we strolled out to get a Sunday paper. We always stopped on the way back and I would sit on it (it is sort of made up of stone layers like steps) and look at the view all around and down to our house. My brother and myself would read all the names on it as we walked around it. Last year, 40+ years on I was again reading the names on it with my son after the rememberance service. I realised that despite reading the names many times I knew nothing about them, so I have begun researching them and included the names from the memorials in the two other nearby villages and the CWGC stones in the local church graveyards. Like Kev I don’t know where it will lead. I have thought about making it into a pamphlet to sell in our village shop and give the procedes to the poppy appeal but at the moment time is limited so it may be a year or two before I’m at that stage.
A recent sad addition to the names is that of Captain James Anthony Townley, laid to rest in the graveyard of the church in the next village (where Mrs Sgt Austin and I got married). He grew up down the road from where I live but I did not know him. He was one day short of his 30th birthday when he died in Afganistan. He was on his third tour of duty and it seems he may have taken his own life. Who knows what horrors this young man saw or went through. He was buried with full military honours.
I forgot to say that on the radio this morning he was described as “the last surviving spitfire pilot”. Surely they meant the oldest. You’d think that out of respect they would take the time and trouble to get it right.
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