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Yep, samething here tonight Friar. I feel for you and I'd like to have a go at feeling for the sisters too!

Mmmm.....if it's gonna be bf110tastic then I think I'll need a new CPU and more ram. Which means bye, bye good 'ol XP.

Very nice pics, Sweper. I can feel the warmth. Made the sunset this weeks desktop.

Nowt wrong with kids though, is there Angus? Come and join us for a few coops soon m8.

No, no Shadrach m8. Bg's wife is Helen. Janet is his girlfr ..............oops!

Thankyou for hosting last night, BG. A real pleasure to fly with the guys again. Hope everything goes well for you this week and we'll see you soon. You and the missus take care.

Take it easy m8. Looking forward to hearing those dulcet tones tonight.

Hmmm......would suggest things you've probably already done. Like checking whether T/S 3 is recognizing your mike, but I think thats in the 'options' panel and if it's crashing when you go into that....... Or re-loading T/S to latest Beta (they seem to upgrade it every week!) and make sure you're not using any linked T/S display application like Tint--that thing crashes T/S for me and I gave up using it.

Hello, AP m8. Will see you tonight. Perhaps we can get you on t/s2 and talk you through the t/s3 problems you're having?

Aha, now this sounds more like it. Cambridge is not very far from Duxford and since we drove back to t'Red Lion from the show I don't see a problem. A night out in Cambridge sounds quite a laugh. I'm sure we could find somewhere to auction off Jedi too.

It's called profiteering. They know there's an event on, they want to cash in. Traditional British hotel trade. Whats the rush? The Red Lion is still there. Treat the Holiday Inn as a flop house of last resort. From my perspective, as the only wage earner in my house-hold; add on the price of entry to the show to the Holiday Inn's attempt at extortion and for the same money I could fly to Toronto and spend the weekend digging Trout ponds with BG. Edit; Actually, the flophouse of last resort is the Red Lion carpark

Happy birthday, Swep m8. Apart from the teeth very glad and slightly jealous to see your having a good time. When you get back=Winter draws on!!!!

Now you know why I declined Friar and JP's very kind offer to kip in their room. My snoring can move furniture, crack plaster, undermine foundations. Wifey makes me sleep wearing a full-face crash helmet!

He managed to bail out of a Mossie twice! That is no mean achievement. Not the easiest of planes to escape from in a hurry. I seem to recall the navigator has to go first, whether out the door or top of the cockpit. Terrifying.

I agree. I'm running an E6600 at stock 2.4 ghz, an Nvidia 9800gt 512mb, 2gig of ram on windows XP. Frame rate is locked to the refresh rate of my 22" monitor so I get a consistent 60fps in perfect mode. Everything looks great. When BoB comes out I'm hoping it'll run it too. If not then I plan to upgrade my processor to an E8400!!!!

Also, be aware that carrier versions would have to take off with rather less ordinance than say, US Marine Corps versions from strips. I seem to recall the Marines could carry eight thousand pounders. That is four under each wing.

Pinched this link from over at the UBI forums. Fascinating BBC2 documentary from 1969 on Battle of Britain pilots. Well worth watching. Also, at last the Beeb are putting some of their huge archive online. My link

Good lord, you've got a lawn out of a hose in three weeks! Sure beats turfing it.

Dick Barton Special Agent!? They don't write em' like that anymore. Mind you, they don't talk like that anymore I think you might be interested in this BG; http://www.archive.org/details/otr_dickbartonspecialagent

Satellite radio? Is this what we call DAB (digital audio broadcasting) over here? We're big on radio in my house. To my kids disgust, I'm a bit of a TV Nazi. I see no reason to have more than one TV in the house. Certainly none in bedrooms. Ten years ago here in the UK we had just four or five channels. On a Saturday I used to sit down with the TV guide and have look at what was on, make a note of it and make sure I'd watch it. Nowadays we have 'Freeview' which is digital broadcasting. We've got something like forty channels now. It's total shite. As there is not enough decent telly to go around most of these forty channels just recycle the same old garbage constantly. I just can't be bothered. Most evenings my wife and I find ourselves banished to the kitchen as my now big kids command the telly rights. Neither of us mind. We can read, drink tea, my wife can thrash me at scrabble. I can smoke the occasional cheroot. We have the radio on. We did have a DAB jobby down here which was great if the reception was working but usually hopeless. It was fine upstairs. Last year I bought a Phillips Internet radio. It's fantastic. Works off the signal from our wireless router upstairs. The choice is truly endless. Despite what I said about modern TV I find radio much less obtrusive and a kind of nostalgic adventure. As a kid in the seventies I used to do my homework listening to the John Peel show and the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. That originally started out as a radio series on the BBC. I still prefer to listen to soccer commentary rather than watch it. Somehow just much more exciting. Been getting into Baseball too. English language radio is endless. Every local station worldwide seems to have an internet stream these days. I get a kick out of listening to local radio from Perth in western Australia knowing that my cousins out there will be listening too as they work at printing money-or pool contracting as it's more commonly known. Local radio ads from the Soloman Islands become fascinating. Even the Goon show is streamed by someone. I'll be checking out local radio from Ontario and Missouri later tonight after coops!

O.K., now up to T-34-85 wiv a bloody gert cannon but I'm runnin' outa gold and sleep

Hey, happy belated birthday Cap'n. Hope you had a good one