THE CONCORDE CONSPIRACY is off and running and we have some truly excellent marketing angled towards to the 2012 Olympics.

I’m not normally interested in civvy aviation however from what I’ve heard I intend to make an exception for this book.

Certainly an interesting thread, one option which seems to happen from time to time is that a revised extract of the book is published in one of the aviation magazines. As has already been mentioned being already published makes life much easier when talking to other publishers.

Inkworm, i remember my father talking about riding a peddle bike round Belfast in the 40’s & 50’s , getting the wheel caught in the tram tracks and ending up going some place he didnt want to go ,So you can keep your scalextrix on the sitting room floor for now ! 😀

A similar thing happened when I first went solo in an old mini, there was thick mud on the road that had rather deep tractor ruts in, this had frozen and therefore controlled the fact that the mini at the speed I was trying to go ended up rolling the hedge.

Still got potential though!

I would just like to point out that electric cars have been around for decades so why can’t we just upsize scalextric sets to life size?

Can anyone provide a vaguely accurate indication of the actual colour as I have seen a few photos with varying shades but all will have been based on photos that have discoloured with age and I don’t fully trust them.

Parents of little kids , who let them Scream in supermarkets…

The only other option being to give in to them having as much chocolate/sweets/toys as they want, we try and keep the little one quiet but it’s not always possible and it is not always an option to leave them at home either.

Highly embarrassing though.

Agree about phones, in cars is annoying but even more so is when out for a meal and friends either need to check texts, make calls and that is during a course. But I do get complaints that my phone is either dead, off or silent, I forget it for days on end, try using something called a landline to get hold of me, I do get a signal on that all the time!

And parking in disabled spaces is just lazy, almost as bad are people who park in parent and child spaces but the child is 15.

I did take great delight in watching someone who was too lazy to park further away from the gym and proceeded to park in one of the parent spaces reserved for the nursery and those picking up their kids. Watched this lady spend ages getting out of the car, faffing about etc and then politely told her that she had parked in a space for parents, some muttering and nasty looks from her until I pointed out that she couldn’t clearly see the markings as she’d parked on top of them. Glad to say the car was moved but why are people who go to the gym so lazy?

Must say that having finally managed to get a visit in yesterday (unplanned as was in the area and had some extra time on my hands) was impressed with the line up and how friendly all the staff were, will definitely take the little one next time there is an open cockpit day. The NF14 did look splendid yesterday and the weather was perfect.

Did look for the Aviation booklets but must have missed them.

Only downside was the state of the A46 and the drive home!