Actually, that’s quite true – and I speak from personal experience.;):) I will send one immediately!

You are making inferences from her comments which she never implied. Of course life was worse in many respects, that is accepted, but she is talking about moral values and, yes, old fashioned concepts like respect, discipline and responsibility. That is what we sorely lack in the 21st century.

He certainly creates a lot of commotion when he is here, so he is missed when he is not. He has had and still has health problems,m which he has referred to in various posts, so I too wish him well. As PeeDee says he won’t be reading PMs if he is not on here.

I think Joanna Lumley is wrong and it sounds to me as if she is living the past… the distant past. Banning laptops in schools, building camps, working on farms – it is 2011 not 1951 you know.

I reckon that children are pretty much the same as they have always been; some bad but most, the ones you usually don’t hear about, are good, decent kids. There is a tendency to always say that things were better in the old days (they weren’t) – and really that’s all this is about isn’t it.

Still, as long as it gets the headlines eh?

Nope – the relationship between children, adults and teachers has totally changed – for the worse. Ms Lumley is dead right and although it is the year 2011 she is not suggesting that we shouild live in the past but that we should still practice some of the values of the past. Of course there are good and bad children and there is a large minority who are an example to all, but that minority shoild be the majority.

As a parent and a grandparent there’s a great deal of truth and good sense in your “rant”. Don’t apologise.

That’s the point PeeDee – he made us laugh – a lot!!;):D

I would heartily endorse every single comment she made. Children are, in the main, no longer taught about respect, discipline and a sense of responsibilty for themselves and to others. Schools and parents are to blame, but so is government for abjectly failing in its duty to support these virtues.

In think this is the full list of exhibits at Hawkinge.

List of Aircraft Exhibits
Displayed I.D. Aircraft Type Real Identity Condition Status
‘G-AAAH’ de Havilland DH.60G Moth ? Complete Displayed
‘D-3-340′ DFS Grunau Baby 2 glider ? Complete Displayed
– Fieseler Fi 103 ‘V-1′ BAPC.36 FSM Displayed
’425/17′ Fokker Dr.I BAPC.133 FSM Displayed
‘N2532′ Hawker Hurricane – FSM Displayed
‘P2921′ Hawker Hurricane – FSM Displayed
‘P3059′ Hawker Hurricane BAPC.64 FSM Displayed
‘P3208/SD-T’ Hawker Hurricane BAPC.63 FSM Displayed
‘P3679′ Hawker Hurricane – FSM Displayed
– Messerschmitt Bf 109E BAPC.66 FSM Displayed
– Messerschmitt Bf 109E BAPC.67 FSM Displayed
– Messerschmitt Bf 109E BAPC.74 FSM Displayed
‘N7033′ North American Harvard IIB ? Complete Displayed
‘K5054′ Supermarine Spitfire prototype ? Reproduction Displayed
‘N3289′ Supermarine Spitfire BAPC.65 FSM Displayed
‘N3313′ Supermarine Spitfire BAPC.69 FSM Displayed
‘X4255′ Supermarine Spitfire Fuselage FSM Displayed
‘X4321′ Supermarine Spitfire Fuselage FSM Displayed
‘MK356′ Supermarine Spitfire IX – FSM Displayed

FSM = Full Scale Model.