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Can't get Laurie Bird out of my noggin!

You can never have enough oxygen... actually that isn't entirely true...

My first decent car was a '64 EH. Back in the early 70's a Mate had an EH with a very worked 179 engine. Used to wind the speedo 'off the clock' at full throttle. Genuine top speed would have been somewhere around 105MPH. My old man owned a Holden Special Station Sedan in the early 60's, in South A...

Received the following shots from a friend in Switzerland of a local festival that was held in at Schaffhausen on Rhine yesterday. The falls having been the topic of a beautiful Turner painting. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/19223 Schaffhausen.JPG Ogre.JPG I still maintain that t...

I am of the opinion that one should try and have a least one good idea a day, even if that idea is to sit on one's hands and do nothing (often very good advice to oneself too). Nonetheless I was talking to a flying friend about researching the possibility a humorous book based around an gastronomica...

Aurora Red Alert just gone off at 2317z..... dashed outside....8/8 cover... :-q Here’s what you missed, but looks like you’ll have plenty more chances :D https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64782372 Apparently the aurora was visible locally down here on the SE as well. Sadly missed by me as I was in the ...

G~Man wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:36 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:33 am

Boac wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:43 am

Didn't the Queen have a fox hat?

Yes, wearing it one day when Phil said "what? the fox 'at"
She never wore it again.

We have to kill and bury the bastards like this...

I might be of use if the Russians invaded Canada and there was no one else, as I've seen local 71 year olds doing great work in uniform in Ukraine, and even 90 year old babushkas have been stealing weapons and ammo off the invading Russians and hiding them. I stand ready if they ever try it! I have...

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 10:51 pm

Anyone remember these instruments of torture - the starched winged collar? I can't remember wearing one after leaving Dartmouth...
winged collar.jpg

The cruelty of the Royal Navy...

Obviously tickets for the TGV sold to the French don't have carriage or seat numbers printed on them. How else to explain French overloaded with bags, cases, pushchairs, rucksacks, babies and large dogs, getting in wrong carriage, shoving their way to the end, finding no seats available, and having...

In my case, because I'm too old to serve at the front and would be a liability to my potential comrades, and I can't do my intelligence role because I don't speak Ukrainian, am cr@p at learning foreign languages, and am 30 years out of touch with official service. And the same applies to flying. Th...

Obviously tickets for the TGV sold to the French don't have carriage or seat numbers printed on them. How else to explain French overloaded with bags, cases, pushchairs, rucksacks, babies and large dogs, getting in wrong carriage, shoving their way to the end, finding no seats available, and having...

I have just watched/listened to, the first of the videos that Karearea posted, and must admit that I had to wipe a tear away...

The Kiwis make a lot of sense to me. The kind of people that abide, and for whom I have the greatest respect.

Good people, when all is said and done.

In my case, because I'm too old to serve at the front and would be a liability to my potential comrades, and I can't do my intelligence role because I don't speak Ukrainian, am cr@p at learning foreign languages, and am 30 years out of touch with official service. And the same applies to flying. Th...

Situation in Bakhmut remains very difficult. Russians launching big attacks from several directions, mostly human waves with much artillery bombardment. Commander of Ukrainian ground forces visited the front today. It's a continual balance, as to whether holding it, whilst inflicting big losses on ...

Woody wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:51 pm

ffrench referee

What are you complaining about. You won!

Allez les bleus!

Woody wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:42 pm

If you win the lottery between now and your trip, this is a great place

https://gondwanagr.co.za/

Drive up from Knysna to Plettenberg Bay and charter a Cessna 210 Centurion (fly yourself, after a checkout if you want) to Shamwari!

Highly recommended by me.

https://www.shamwari.com/