#4291961 - 08/30/16 09:23 PM
Re: Innocents Abroad -August 2016-
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Fly EAW online at GameRanger: GameRanger SiteFaceBook Pages UAW 160 downloadsEAW ClubMark Twain: I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.I am now of an age at which I no longer need to suffer fools gladly
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#4291967 - 08/30/16 09:52 PM
Re: Innocents Abroad -August 2016-
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Col. Gibbon
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So your in Hogwarts, oh mighty wiard of the virtual paint brush! Anyway your Howarts engine, there are three full-size replicas of the locomotive as 5972 Hogwarts Castle are at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Orlando Resort). Two as part of the Hogwarts Express train ride and the other is a static exhibit in the Hogsmeade area, so next year try and get them too. The real engine is GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall, and in 2015 the locomotive went on static display at The Harry Potter Museum within the Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, near Watford and will remain there in the museum until 2017, so you might have seen the real one!
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#4292228 - 08/31/16 06:26 PM
Re: Innocents Abroad -August 2016-
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PeterMBooth
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Hey Mike,
I only hit the curb twice! That bridge at Caerleon is ruddy narrow and I had never gone that way before, and Val's car is longer than mine. You're right though - our roads are not brilliant, particularly out in the country.
Pete
With increasing age should come wisdom and tolerance, but as the saying goes, "there is no fool like an old fool" as I prove regularly!
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#4292297 - 08/31/16 09:37 PM
Re: Innocents Abroad -August 2016-
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PeterMBooth
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Nice "Oxbox". It looks a lot better than I remember it, but last time I went must be nearly 30 years ago and I guess they have expanded the display, but it is a pity about the changes they have recently started to make. The BOB Hall used to be pretty good - Spit and Hurri Mk1, 109E, He111, Ju88 and CR42 as I recall. The IWM used to have a Spit and Hurri too, but again that was years ago and they might be at Duxford now. Did they still have a Hampden at Hendon or is that my memory failing?
Have a good day Thursday and a good flight back.
Pete
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#4292701 - 09/01/16 07:30 PM
Re: Innocents Abroad -August 2016-
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PeterMBooth
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Must have been thinking about the Wimpy though I gather that is in Cosford being restored at the moment. A real shame that we did not preserve more of out wartime aircraft, not to mention the many German ones we captured and tested. No Manchester and Stirling and the only Hampdens and Halifaxes are either recovered wrecks or total rebuilds in the case of the Halifax BIII. No Whitley either. As with the medal, Bomber Command were virtually ignored.
Pete
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With increasing age should come wisdom and tolerance, but as the saying goes, "there is no fool like an old fool" as I prove regularly!
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