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    And after all God can keep my soul
    England to have my bones
    But don't ever give me up
    I could never get back up when the future starts so slow

     

     

     

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    Not dead, just devoid of mojo and overworked. 

    1. Stew Dapple

      Stew Dapple

      That's good mate, the mojo will return, hopefully the workload will diminish, but the 'dead' part would have been a tough one to overcome :) 

       

      Cheers,

       

      Stew

    2. The Spadgent

      The Spadgent

      Glad you’re ok dude. Don’t be too long though eh, I need my dose of dry humour and self depreciation Edward style. 🖤.

    3. stevehnz

      stevehnz

      Good to hear, been worried there might have been something worse underlying your absence. Take care.

      Steve.

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    Feeling a weird interest in that vacform Vickers Windsor.

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    2. Procopius

      Procopius

      Did...did you marry her, Stew?

    3. Stew Dapple

      Stew Dapple

      Uh, let's just say the restraining order is still in force and leave it at that, eh? :lol:  

    4. modelglue

      modelglue

      I'm still torn about her too friend.

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    Take me back to beautiful England
    And the grey, damp filthiness of ages,
    And battered books and
    Fog rolling down behind the mountains,
    On the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.

     

     

     

    November can't come soon enough.

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    "Approximately seven minutes after the attack had begun, I noticed a single Spitfire arriving over the base at 2000 feet height in a port turn. Three Fw 190s were just coming in to strafe. The Spitfire, marked ZF-P [and] piloted by F/Lt. Chojnacki [of 308 (Polish) Squadron] noticed these enemy aircraft and while still in the turn fired at the rearmost from about 800 yards range, [shooting the Fw 190 down almost instantly]..."
    --Sgt Strobel, 308 (Polish) Squadron, recounting events of January 1 1945. Flight Lieutenant Waclaw Chojnacki proceeded to engage four more Fw 190s at once, drawing them away from the airfield, but lost his life doing so. Shortly after Chojnacki was shot down, 308 (City of Krakow), and 317 (City of Wilno) squadrons returned to the airfield from their fighter sweep and shot down twenty-six more Fw190s, effectively annihilating II/JG1.

     

    Chojnacki is buried in Grave IC1 in the Polish War Cemetery in Lommel, Belgium, a thousand kilometers from home.   

     

    http://www.polishwargraves.nl/lom/0575.htm

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    Happy Christmas to all of Britmodeller! My life is greatly enriched by all of you and our wonderful shared hobby of buying kits, putting them safely away, and idly speculating about building them.

    1. CedB

      CedB

      And to you and yours Egbert!

      Have a good one and I hope Santa brings you all you asked for.

      With you on the forum too - a great group of proper chaps :) 

    2. jean

      jean

      May you be able soon to buy a much bigger house, so that you can stash O so many more kits away, O so safely!!!

      In the meantime, have a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones.

       

      JR

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    As fundamental a song for my own adolescence as it was when it came out twenty years before. So long Pete:

     

     

     

    1. Stew Dapple

      Stew Dapple

      I hadn't heard :( 

       

      RIP Pete

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      06/24

      A great song, and sad news

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    1. jean

      jean

      Hi Mr. P,

       

      Thank you for the Hot Sardines!

      I had (incredibly enough!) forgotten all about them, and I have loved them from the start. Imagine what happens to the ones I don't like...

      So thanks again for making my life a little bit more complete.

       

      JR

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    Arrrrgh: https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/

    1. Stew Dapple

      Stew Dapple

      "We also recognize that many of the clues for how best to build the future of Flickr can be found in Photobucket's rich history."

       

      Fixed that for them :) 

       

      Cheers,

       

      Stew

    2. Procopius

      Procopius

      It's the sort of deeply disingenuous pablum I'd expect to come out of a coterie of tech bros tooling around the latter-day Gomorrah of Silicon Valley, and they did not disappoint. "We realize we made a mistake by making a great service extremely useful and free. Now we'd like you to prepare for your pips to squeak."

    3. Stew Dapple

      Stew Dapple

      Absolutely, it seems that this is what now passes for a  business model: "The first one's free, kids"

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