It’s that time of year again. So what’s your New Year Resolutions? :p

Continue, as I have started this year, having re-discovered my passion, to spend more time on aviation and less on other more ephemeral stuff like work!:D

OK, just to put those of you who don’t know me out of their misery:

Chief Technician Paul Blackah, RAF, BBMF, Black 6, historic aircraft etc etc

and Mrs Fluffy says she doesn’t ‘do’ hats!

Just wait ’til the day dawns! Congratulations.:)

The military list is separate from the civil list

Not there either………….unless my eyes deceived me!

Don’t they have a choice whether they accept an honour or refuse it?:confused:

I know that Knights and OMs do and as for the rest, presumably. But in the 1960s I really don’t know – I didn’t get the impression there was any choice – perhaps refusal earned you a black mark on your record!!!:(

For the uninitiated — who?

I’ll second that.

Great lads and they have given us all great pleasure for years. But aren’t all these honours a bit overdone? To his credit John Major tried to reduce them but we still see every year hundreds of people getting gongs for doing their jobs.

Gongs should be limited and only awarded for service “above and beyond” etc etc. Then they really would mean something. Knights are ubiquitous, and C, O and MBE’s are ten a penny.

I remember decades ago my boss in the then GPO got the statutory MBE after yonks of service and bemoaned the fact that he’d miss out a pay rise and he’d have to shell out on new gear for he and his wife so it would end up costing him money. He was not impressed!

If all the attendees of the Copenhagen summit are so all fired interested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions why did they not conduct the meetings by videophone? Yes I know that would mean some of them being up at silly hours of the night their time but if they were sincere and honestly interested in something other than being seen attending to make political brownie points that is what they would have done.

Largely because they are only interested in creating as much huff and puff as possible. And since none of them have taken the time to really study the pros and cons of the whole phenomenum they could not conceive of the summit being between 2 or 3 representatives of each nation by video link. Come on Mike, we are talking self-important politicians here, not normal, thinkig people!;)