I have a light fitting exactly as this one (pic taken from Bruce’ s site, hope you don’t mind)

Any chance of a link for Bruce’s site?

You know, I was born down south- Surrey, as it happens- and lived in Wales for a long time before moving up here, north of the Tyne, to Newcastle, but I think the anti-mackem comments here are borderline offensive. Take it easy chaps! Plenty of good folk live there too you know.

That said, I’m only going to Sunderland on Sunday for the Vulcan, and as said above, that’ll no doubt be waay out to sea. The rest of the ‘show’ looks extremely thin- good job it’s free!

Sorry but I take breathing over looking nice!!!:)

:D;)

There’s no doubting that the Shuttle became ridiculously expensive, and never quite lived up to what it was hoped it would be, and that as a vehicle, it was always risky. Personally too, I always enjoyed the sheer mechanics of the launches and landings, but was quite bored by much of the on-orbit activities. I want to see a return to the glory-days of Apollo, when NASA WENT places, not just low Earth orbit! What I mourn at the moment is the thousands of job losses from the Shuttle program- like closing a shipyard or the like here, once it’s gone, it’s gone. You never get that capability back.

Very disappointed to note that VTTS are looking to put an ad in the final copy of the ‘news’ paper News Of The World this Sunday…