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Post by davidallum on May 23, 2020 6:19:08 GMT
Morning Peter & all,the 14 day quarantine plan is a good idea but however it's about 10 weeks too late,should have been brought in right from day 1.As we are seeing the restrictions being lifted we should be encouraging people to visit not forcing them to hold up somewhere for 14 days.Some airlines eg Easyjet were looking to start a limited operation in mid June,can't see that happening now unless it's domestic services only.
At least I believe the UK is in a far better situation than some other countries eg USA & Brazil.
I could rant on but my wife (one of the NHS finest I may add) is due home from work shortly so I need to get breakfast ready.
Have a good weekend all.
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Post by rocky14 on May 23, 2020 17:03:22 GMT
'The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk'.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Post by PB on May 25, 2020 8:18:54 GMT
'The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk'. Marcus Tullius Cicero Referring to the wisdom of Cicero and walking humbly in high places.. one is tempted to question who it is that is advising Boris Johnson on the Dominic Cummings debacle? Could it be...DC?
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Post by rocky14 on Jul 25, 2020 17:44:33 GMT
The inference I glean from recent reports is that 'Europe' is re-considering its options re the menace!
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Post by rocky14 on Feb 17, 2021 19:02:28 GMT
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Post by PB on Feb 17, 2021 22:58:01 GMT
Thank you Rocky14... There's something about an aeroplane with many hours in its logbook. A 'living being' that responded to the air around it and the guiding commands from the 'sensors' in the cockpit. Like a living being, aeroplanes command majesty, beauty, fear, joy, and imagination from those connected either directly or indirectly with them. Aeroplanes rising into the sky be they small or large, fast or slow, were to me as a lad such magnificent creatures that surely would always be with us, too technically miraculous to ever to be allowed to die. How wrong I was so far as their demise has so often proven, but their magic lives on in memory and sources akin to our Forum. The sad video of a Victor's end so reminiscent of nature documentaries accounting the demise of dead creatures and their speeded up consumption by fungi, microbes and others who for whom death means life.. So many of our prop driven airliners that truly pioneered the growth of air transport have gone to a miserable grave. We tried to rescue one of Blackbushe's old multi engined legends but alas t'was not to happen. There's a Viking in Austria falling apart due to lack of love..Were I to win the lottery it would be number one on the shopping list, assuming it's still unloved. A Viking, visible from the A30, in Eagle colours would be such a fitting tribute to what Blackbushe meant for civil aviation's post war ascent Your link sent from the bunker this evening at least carried the good news that RAF Mildenhall will carry on flying.. Let's hope the same may be said about Blackbushe following next week's legal encounter as she yet again faces faceless bureaucracy...
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Post by rocky14 on Mar 1, 2021 9:03:24 GMT
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Post by exeglkflyer on Mar 1, 2021 16:36:21 GMT
One of my twin daughters is at Uni in Exeter currently, in her 4th year, the other is an alumni having graduated last year (well finished her degree, but not had a graduation yet, due to the current circumstances).
She now lives the other side of campus, about 1.5 miles from the bomb site, but she says the bang was very big (thankfully they had been told when to expect it).
In her 1st and 2nd years, she would have been well within the evacuation zone - and so was therefore unknowingly, like thousands of other students, living quite close to this 1 tonne bomb!
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Post by rocky14 on Mar 1, 2021 19:07:16 GMT
One of my twin daughters is at Uni in Exeter currently, in her 4th year, the other is an alumni having graduated last year (well finished her degree, but not had a graduation yet, due to the current circumstances). She now lives the other side of campus, about 1.5 miles from the bomb site, but she says the bang was very big (thankfully they had been told when to expect it). In her 1st and 2nd years, she would have been well within the evacuation zone - and so was therefore unknowingly, like thousands of other students, living quite close to this 1 tonne bomb! Scary Ex! You never know what's beneath you, that beast was beneath me years ago! I think the UXB people were rather shocked by the size of the blast, though the Major i/c kept a stiff upper lip, of course - all in days work old chap - brave guys. Will the insurance companies be looking to the EU for reparations? Who knows. Thank God only property was damaged.
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