Armageddon Jim, as in ‘Armageddon outa here.’

For a moment there I thought you were on about the ’44 raid which confused me a bit.

I’m glad to see in a non conforntational way that most of you are older than me….:) Mind you at 57 I could be dead tomorrow….:(

Bit OT but what is the name of the lady who works in the entrance shop? I used to fly gliders from the showground there and we used to use the museum caff. I called in recently on my way back to Lincoln to check out the models and she is still there!

Islay. There’s an airfield on Islay. I’m heading up to Scotchland in May….

Damn your eyes sir, I’m going to have to buy that now. You cunning advertiser…;)

Just googled mine (29 Feb 56) and it’s a bit boring really

Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65

Aviation wise a Cessna 195 crashed in Columbia.

Mind you, being as I only get a birthday every four years I’m only 14, I learned to drive when I was 4 and started flying when I was 7…..:D

That’s interesting Baz, I’m a bit of a whisky fan myself but how do we buy those brands? There are hundreds of types of whisky on sale but unless you have tried them all how can you say that Talisker is superior to Angus Old Sock? Nothing wrong with Talisker by the way, grand stuff.

I have about 20 bottles of single malt in the house but apart from maybe half a dozen obscure ones which I’ve bought because I’ve tasted them at friends and liked them the others are the usual suspects. Well, usual suspects to a whisky drinker.

Edit: But then that begs the question do we buy popular brands because they are good whiskys and that’s why they are popular?

I always liked BMW’s but I never bought one because of their perceived image; I didn’t want to be seen as a mid management idiot who had forgotten how to use indicators. But then that’s a negative reinforced image, so I thought ****** it and bought one and it’s a superb car, I couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks.

Funny too how everybody with a former life used to be something glamorous like a Samurai warrior or a tragic Persian princess and never, say, a Victorian lavatory attendant.

I did have a vivid dream once that I’d fought and died in the US Civil War. Amazing what a quarter of stilton, a dozen crackers and a bottle of red can do….:)