Seen Over Your House Today

[PR19_Kit]

5pm this afternoon, just in from doing my National Trust volunteering, a Tornado  heading west at about 400 feet. Probably heading for the Mach Loop...........but only one......they usually travel in twos.     

Perhaps there IS only one left in the UK? The rest are at Akrotiri............

[Rick Lowe]

5pm this afternoon, just in from doing my National Trust volunteering, a Tornado  heading west at about 400 feet. Probably heading for the Mach Loop...........but only one......they usually travel in twos.     

Perhaps there IS only one left in the UK? The rest are at Akrotiri............

Poor, lonely wee thing

(Wee? A Tonka??)

Cheers

[PR19_Kit]

5pm this afternoon, just in from doing my National Trust volunteering, a Tornado  heading west at about 400 feet. Probably heading for the Mach Loop...........but only one......they usually travel in twos.     

Perhaps there IS only one left in the UK? The rest are at Akrotiri............

Poor, lonely wee thing

(Wee? A Tonka??)

Cheers

Certainly not its fin! that's ENORMOUS!

[Rick Lowe]

5pm this afternoon, just in from doing my National Trust volunteering, a Tornado  heading west at about 400 feet. Probably heading for the Mach Loop...........but only one......they usually travel in twos.     

Perhaps there IS only one left in the UK? The rest are at Akrotiri............

Poor, lonely wee thing

(Wee? A Tonka??)

Cheers

Certainly not its fin! that's ENORMOUS!

You know what they say:

Big Fin, Big... ...


Ordnance load.
What? What did you think I was going to say?  

[Knightflyer]

5pm this afternoon, just in from doing my National Trust volunteering, a Tornado  heading west at about 400 feet. Probably heading for the Mach Loop...........but only one......they usually travel in twos.     

Perhaps there IS only one left in the UK? The rest are at Akrotiri............

Poor, lonely wee thing

(Wee? A Tonka??)

Cheers

Certainly not its fin! that's ENORMOUS!

You know what they say:

Big Fin, Big... ...


Ordnance load.
What? What did you think I was going to say?  

So , just as a matter of interest and if it's not too daft a question....how many Tornados do the RAF have, and how many ARE in Cyprus?

[Rheged]

Lunchtime today, regret that I got a good view of the local air ambulance helicopter G-HWAA

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-HWAA.html

Madame R and I had just got back from Hereford cathedral. An elderly neighbour's back door was open and a friend of her sons had just arrived as she wasn't answering her phone. We found her in a heap at the foot of the stairs. Very rapid/efficient  999 response by paramedic, ambulance then air ambulance.  She's been flown to Bristol.   Fascinating though it was  to see  the Eurocopter so close, in the field beside the house, I'd rather not  have had the experience.

[kerick]

I understand completely. I hope you neighbor recovers.

[PR19_Kit]

Oooooer, was that around lunchtime? I heard a fast low flying chopper o'head around 1245 or so today. Routing from Hereford to Bristol would go pretty close to me too.

[Rheged]

Oooooer, was that around lunchtime? I heard a fast low flying chopper o'head around 1245 or so today. Routing from Hereford to Bristol would go pretty close to me too.

Could well have been, Kit.     Latest bulletin is that elderly female  neighbour is "stable"  in Bristol, suspected hairline skull fracture and small bleed to brain.

[PR19_Kit]

Best wished to her anyway. No doubt she'd a fall, a very common problem with older citizens. My Mum has a wrist alarm for such occasions, and she uses it maybe once every two weeks these days.

[Rheged]

Best wished to her anyway. No doubt she'd a fall, a very common problem with older citizens. My Mum has a wrist alarm for such occasions, and she uses it maybe once every two weeks these days.

Yup, my mum ( 90 next birthday) is getting one for herself.  "Now that I'm starting to get old....."  she said.   This leads to the philosophical question......When do we  become older citizens?  I don't feel old yet......in fact I feel reasonably young and active (63)......but then this bleary eyed old man stares out of the bathroom mirror at me every morning.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm 72, almost 73 now, mentally going on 35........... 

[rickshaw]

I believe in Mae West's advice about getting old, "You're only as old as the young [insert person's gender] you're feeling [up]!"   

[Captain Canada]

"It's not in years. It's between the ears"

[JayBee]

Growing old is mandatory.
Growing up is optional!