Gents,

Thanks for the congrats, chaps. I received several cards and a fine 6 bottle pack of quality beers via Amazon. I'm sampling one right now as a matter of fact.

Just been out on a clear, still evening with the star fields showing clearly. I was looking at a heavenly body with my birding scope when her husband closed the curtains. Actually it was the red coloured Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and estimated to be some 640 light years distant. So, in 1380 when I was on the Calais gig with Thomas of Buckingham, the light from that star was just starting out which we see today. Due to become a supernova eventually in some 1,000,000 years time.


'Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant.'

Manfred von Richtofen
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