Dave Hunt

Many thanks for all the good wishes for my birthday yesterday. I was royally treated by Jill who chauffered me all day (I’m not supposed to drive for another 3 weeks) after a bacon butty and coffee in bed then taken to a rather nice place for lunch with some friends. This was a prolonged affair featuring cake and champagne and just in case I need more there will be a repeat performance this evening with more friends. This, of course, is doing little for the current aim of reducing the amount of DH that is in evidence but I feel that it would be churlish not to take full part in such things. Tomorrow, as they say, is another day. Dave

I normally drink Prosecco rather than Champagne but if someone presents me with a bottle of the latter it seems churlish not to get stuck in. Dave

Jamie, good news about Beth - hopes and prayers for a swift recovery. Dave

Had an enjoyable and relaxing day yesterday being driven around and forced to drink champagne and eat cake. Due to an effective security screen, no bears or hippos were seen during consumption. Dave

Shouldn’t that be zwei und zweizig? Dave (The autocorrect tried to change that to zero and xeroxing 🤣

Today sees the celebration of my Sunset Strip* orbit of our closest star so I am being taken out for lunch with some friends near Oswestry. I may be some time. * 77 for those not old enough to recall such things. Best wishes to Beth and hopes for a swift recovery. Dave

As long as it does the job they can use whatever they like. I did know someone who tried to do it himself with cotton buds and made a right mess of his ear that ended up needing hospital visits so maybe that won’t be an option though. Dave

Pretty much what happened to our Lab/Collie cross Sam. He was 14. That was nearly six years ago now and I still miss him dreadfully. Dave

Off to the pharmacist shortly to have an earwax removal job, which will be only the second time I’ve ever needed it. Old age I guess (tomorrow will be my Sunset Strip birthday). TTFN Dave

We have the same situation, The plumber we use responds very quickly should we have an emergency and is reliable for annual servicing as well as being reasonable with his charges. The only snag is that getting him to attend for non-urgent jobs is sometimes a pretty drawn-out process; for instance, we have a partially blocked radiator that needs attention but so far it has taken four months for him not to attend. Dave

Personal experience; they were gold Abel Labels with black lettering. Dave

And on the warning cones in the Gents at Lime Street station that had the legend WET FLOOR on them, someone had added, "Please note this is not an order." Dave

Many years ago I had to attend medical board at the RAF Central Medical Establishment in London following an accident in which I was knocked unconscious. The doctor who tested my hearing (who was an aviation medicine specialist) commented that my high tone range was not as good as it had been and asked whether there was anything I thought could account for it. I replied that maybe spending over thirty years working with and near jet engines could be a cause, to which he looked thoughtful and said maybe I could be right. That did little to foster my faith in aviation medics. And like Q I have a nearly constant background high frequency whine in my hearing that although not really intrusive can be annoying in a quiet environment. Dave

Some years ago in the Gents loos in UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology for the underprivileged) there were printed labels stuck to the walls in the sit-downs above the loo roll holders that said, "Sociology degrees - please take one." Dave

An RAF colleague had at one time been a police car driver in Bristol. He told us that a common trick played on newbie car passengers was to drive down the road by Temple Meads station that is a dead end at some furious speed until smashing into the wall at the end seemed inevitable, then brake hard when passing a section of fencing that had been left unpainted. This would stop the car just short of the wall, usually giving the passenger the heebie jeeebies and the driver much amusement....... ........until one day someone painted the fence. The driver had to explain the foreshortened police car. Dave

IIRC, the average European of today has something like 3 - 5% Neanderthal DNA. Dave

From Wikipedia: Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints probably made by antecessor. The oldest human fossils, around 500,000 years old, are of heidelbergensis at Boxgrove in Sussex. Until this time Britain had been permanently connected to the Continent by a chalk ridge between South East England and northern France called the Weald-Artois Anticline, but during the Anglian Glaciation around 425,000 years ago a megaflood broke through the ridge, and Britain became an island when sea levels rose during the following Hoxnian interglacial. Fossils of very early Neanderthals dating to around 400,000 years ago have been found at Swanscombe in Kent, and of classic Neanderthals about 225,000 years old at Pontnewydd in Wales. Britain was unoccupied by humans between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago, when Neanderthals returned. By 40,000 years ago they had become extinct and modern humans had reached Britain. Dave

Thank the Good Lord, no. If she had I wouldn't be typing this due to: a. Not being very well after being ambushed by a baseball bat or similar, and.. b. Not being able to get into the house to use any of my electronic thingies. Dave

Just ring 119 Puppers. That's what I did this morning and within five minutes had booked Jill and I in at a time and place that suited us. Dave

I’ve just bought Jill a new iPad because her old one is now Neolithic and can’t update so more and more web sites won’t let it play. Unfortunately when I fired it up my iPhone was in my pocket so they immediately fell in love and started to share passcodes etc. I’ve now got to set about dissuading it from pursuing this love affair and become independent. Isn’t technology wonderful sometimes? Dave

I always thought that special relativity was the reason that there are lots of funny people in remote parts of the Ozark mountains and suchlike. Dave

I’ve watched a few of their games recently and there’s been some good rugby on show. Dave

Had a trip out to Dorothy Clive gardens today and enjoyed both the flora and lunch outside at the cafe. I managed a reasonable amount of walking but after just half an hour during which there was some uphill stretches my legs felt like jelly. I hadn't realised properly until now just how unfit I have become because of not doing any proper exercise for years while my spine was giving me grief. Now I've had it largely sorted, though, I'm determined to get reasonably fit again. It'll be a bit of an uphill battle but a necessary one. Dave

You are leading the poor chap down the garden path, Neil. Since when has the traffic on ERs made any sense? Dave

Known to generations of RAF aviators as Sally’s tits. Dave