Just watched the opening to Spectre last night. Amazing! Before that, the new Blue Angels fly on the wall. Amazingly good. On Prime, which we haven't been watching because of those bloody ads........

Well, I guess the caves don't need AC down there........

Thin ice there! Don't they remain lovely forever? Mine just gets lovlier.......

Close but no cigar! It was a MkIII Cortina, white and registered in Chichester. That caused my (then F-I-L, ex RAF) no end of amusement as he said it was an abbreviation of Kinky Chiefs Required. I was at sea with the RN at that time and we had a modest rivalry.

I say that to all...........

.... and I bought Patrick Mcnee's car off him! Not as exciting as you might think. Guess what it was.

Ermmmmmmmm........... A Yorkshirewoman. And a Bond girl.

I used to be annoyed at the constant CA blue skies and harsh shadows. I'd pray for nice flat light that one could shape to suit the image.

I'll just leave this here: https://www.instructables.com/contest/papercardboard24/?

Singapore (and HMS Blake) says "Hold My Beer" The damn things on Blake were some inches long and in Singers, even larger. We called them Bombay Runners. No idea of the derivation, but the Russian "trawlers" were also known by the same name. So when the pipe "Bombay Runner" was made, the...

There was music? I only watch it for Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette........

I flew in her when she was 'The Dragon and His Tail" a number of years ago. A different friend (who flies for Alaska) was a regular right seater in the Collings B-17 and was good friends with Mac. Aviation is a tough game. Vintage aircraft are an especially tough game.

Like this: Apparently his house is right by your distillery and he tells me he buzzed "several times" Cheers

I shall report back! Were you in Bend or do you live to the NW of the town?

He lives NW of Bend and has quite a collection of planes. Not sure if he ever got the runway setup at his place, I shall have to check. Cheers

More on this. A different friend tells me (on the FaceBook thread with the picture) that the D-Day stripes are only on the lower wing on Darren's plane. So I called him a vandal for buzzing Bend and we'll await the reaction. :-)

Evergreen is amazing. Took the grandson on our last visit to Salem. WELL worth a visit, and we found a picture of my aeroplane on one exhibit (the Pitts S1S, check out both). Darren's plane doesn't have DDay stripes (see pic above), so there must be another. I alos hadn't realized that it...

I might have been closer to reality than I knew:

As the actress said to the Bishop......

Which one, Evergreen? I have a friend who has a horse ranch a few miles NW of Bend and he has a Mustang, so it could (only could) be him. One day I need to get the Bend and visit your establishment and his. (The Mustang takes priority :)) Edit, I see you included the Erikson in your OP...

Ah, yes, CA where they fail you for not signalling in an empty parking lot. I kid you not. Ask me how I know.

On HMS Blake, a few lifetimes ago, we were infested with cockroaches and other snarly grobblers to such an extent that we used to spray and the watch it 'rain' them from the deckhead. They tried to cure the problem when the ship was in for refit by closing down to ZuluAplha (the ship is sealed...

Inflation!!! When I was at sea you could get a dose for much less than that.

I'll bite. Why?

I would assume World Turtle Day. :-). Seems especially relevant :-))