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Careful, they’re related….

The return of Herne the Hunter last night. White tailed deer buck. Jasper, Georgia. USA

Careful, he could be related to Herne………https://www.historicmysteries.com/herne-the-hunter/

Caught on one of our cameras last night. White tailed deer buck. Jasper, Georgia. USA.

Don’t blame the US. We hate the little bar stewards too.

Just reading the headlines (at midnight US Eastern time). Just lost for words. Were all cars checked? I’ll bet half the field, if not more, had worn planks due to the sprint race and the track, not just Ferrari and Mercedes. Were they all not scrutineered after the sprint and before the GP? They were in parc ferm´e. I’m seriously worried about the FIA and the stewards.

Yes, it’s puzzling isn’t it? Rather like the preponderance of rail tracks suspended from the ceiling and running round rooms. Makes me scratch my head.

Back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s my parents had a coke fueled AGA. Its ashes were removed each morning and put in the metal dustbin. I don’t remember there ever being a problem with fire. All organic kitchen waste was put on the compost heap. My grandmother (born 1901) would weekly start a conflagration in her metal dustbin to ‘sanitize’ it! Eventually they rusted/burned out and had to be replaced. Mind you she burned everything for which she no longer had a use. He favourite phrase was “what do you want a book for? You’ve already got one”. But I digress massively .

I liked the A340. My first A340 flight was Virgin’s first aircraft delivered I believe in 1993. This was a launch flight from LHR to LGW flying down to the west country and back. Other ‘guests’ were Diana, Princess of Wales (dressed as VS Flight Attendant); Sir Richard B, Chris d’Burgh (who wrote ‘Lady in Red’ which the aircraft was named) and half the top bods UK travel industry! On passing over Windsor Castle Lady D apparently exclaimed “look Granny’s house” (according Branson). After that a couple of VS flights to the US in about 2000 I think. Always found them comfortable and quiet.

Four white tailed deer, including a fawn that is beginning to loose its spots. There were two additional does just over to the right. Caught on one of our cameras in the garden this afternoon.

Woburn Green Country Club. Not sure it was an ever a golf club. Later a disco/night club. Burnt down regrettably and a number of houses built on the site.

Response from Walgreens was utter disbelief at both corporate and local level. It appears that this is a DoorDash (the delivery company) issue. So far no official response, although they do say they are investigating. A number of DoorDash drivers say that they often react to ingredients in a delivery, saying that some of the constituents in face cream ‘may’ be possible to be used as drugs. The mind boggles.

Yes, no ID and it wouldn’t matter if I was drunk as a skunk.

Just had an I don’t believe it incident. Lady wife like Boots No7 Face Cream. Here in the US it’s available from the national pharmacy chain, Walgreens. She went on-line to order some for home delivery. No rush, just when it comes (normally FedEx, UPS, USPS etc). Anyway the message comes back that it will be delivered today (free) from the local store (we live up in the Georgia mountains, so not an urban location). She thought that excellent service, although was puzzled when the website asked if she’s like to leave a tip! Not bl**dy likely. Later, she’s on a phone call when the delivery guy arrives. I go to the door and take the package, say ‘thank you’ and he says he needs to see my wife’s ID as he has to take a photo. I say that’s OK you can take my photo to prove delivery. No, he must see wife’s ID - for face cream! I dutifully go back inside and get her wallet looking for driver’s license. Can’t see it but her Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) ID card is there - she’s a Flight Attendant so has to have Government ID. No, not good enough, it must be a State (Georgia) ID with a photo. Eventually find Driver’s License and he takes a photo of it, apologizing. Then says he has to make sure that the recipient is not intoxicated. After a blast of Anglo-Saxon invective, he apologizes and leaves. All for two small pots of face cream. I don’t believe it!!!!!!

‘Twas the US Marines that lost it. Not the Air Force this time ;-)

A white tailed deer doe getting to some apples in our garden today. Jasper, Georgia, USA.

Try living here in the Appalachian Mountains. The locals are still speaking 16th and 17th century English.

Argh! Indeed. It appears that everyone on TV (and probably elsewhere) starts each sentence “So,…..”. It’s SO annoying.

A geography master, when I was at school (when dinosaurs roamed) and on a field trip, asked “who last utilized the broom?”. A voice from the back muttered “well, I swept up if that’s what you mean”.

A friend’s family used to own the Aston Martin DB4 Zagato 1 VEV. The car was built in 1960. They have a painting of the car with a Hunter flying overhead (regrettably I don’t have a copy!). It’s interesting that the two machines were contemporary.

I recall a tale told in the Goods Shed at Taplow, when a Great Western Society base in ‘66, that when the water cranes were removed from Maidenhead station someone flushed the toilet on one of the platforms and it kept flushing for two weeks or until the tank emptied. Almost certainly a ‘bar tale’ but the thought still makes me smile. ;-)

I think this must have been the Mosquito in question. This was at a Booker/Wycombe Air Park air show in, I think, 1968. I must get around to rescanning this slide and cleaning it up. Hunter F4 in the foreground. I think (having search the web) it’s static preserved in Jordan.