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Display Typhoon up yesterday (Monday) at 08.10hrs, not up at all today so fyngers crossed we should be in luck tomorrow at some point, the weather looks good after initial light showers, PM is forecast for clear skies

A train is the whole thing, ie the motive power bit and all the rolling stock to go with it, the bit at the front (and even the rear theses day's) is called the Loco or Locomotive. just thought I would throw that one in for the PC brigade Rog

Be very careful firbeck, they're moving around in vans now looking for drinkers that don't comply!!!!! Rog

Well spring has sprung in Bakewell with these young mallards on the river Wye taken today05/04/09 Rog

Steam is exhausted in the smokebox from the cylinders pointing towards the chimney creating a vacuum which in turn pulls more fire from the firebox via the fire tubes to create a more efficient burn and water heating capabilities, it's the exhausted steam that gives the steam engine that distinctive "chuff chuff" sound Rog (sorry for being boring!)

The Vulcan is booked to display at East Kirkby Lincolnshire on 25th May together with the BBMF and taxi runs performed by their own Lancaster bomber "Just Jane" Rog

Yes, I saw that picture myself Ashley, probably the same book as the open top car, I think the haversack type radio was something like the military used in WW2 not sure but I think it was called an A10 set Rog

Peregrine chicks have hatched on Lincoln Cathedral, Hirundines started coming over the east coast about 5 weeks ago, pheasants and partridge have eggs at the moment and the skylarks have started running across the ground before taking off so I assume they're either protecting nest sites or they have eggs, great crested and little grebes have started to build nests now as have a lot of other waterside birds, Avocets and dark belly brents are landing in large numbers now on the salt marshes out here and just a few blue bells are starting to show but only in odd patches at the moment Rog

I remember seeing a picture in some book, or maybe picture the past of a chief constable in an open top car somewhere near the top of Mansfield road/Forest road, the car did look bigger than the morris though, I will try to find the picture, also was the Nottingham police force the first to use radio in their cars? Rog

"Well don't just stand there, get one in the air!!!"

"If we lose now we deserve to have our arses kicked out" "Jawhol herr Major, give me a squadron of SPITFIRES" "Good afternoon my arse, get your hands up"

Here you go then firbeck, outside my office this afternoon for about 20 minutes, It's from the BBMF which is about 1 1/2 miles away, it's a rough job but someone has to do it Rog

Don't you yell at me mister Warwick!!!! They made the bloody mess let them clear it up, "what about the officers?" give them a bloody shovel!!!

Ayup Kev, If you look just pass the curb on the Awsworth byepass you will see what looks like old pit conveyor belting running the length of the curb and curling up so that the reptiles can't climb it, the only gaps in this belting is where the tunnel entrances and exits are thus "guiding" the little reptiles to the tunnels and hopefully across the road in safety, the best thing about it is,,,IT WORKS see you next week Rog

W I I F M A lot of today's thinking "What's in it for me"

And just to finish my day off nicely, A Hurricane has just performed a 20 minute display above our site showing spectacular climbs, victory rolls and low passes. Now I must get some work done before I go home Rog

Just to keep all the aviation folk up to speed, The Display Typhoon was up this morning at 08.15 for twenty minutes, an hour later two Spitfires were up just flying around, the sound of that Merlin engine is something else, 4 Sentinals, 5 Sentry's a Nimrod and a Merlin chopper were at Waddo last night when I drove past on me way home, and I was told today the the Lancaster "Just Jane" at East Kirkby has started doing it's taxi runs again on Wednesday's so it might be worth a visit there as well, see if that will fit in with your plans Beefsteak Rog

Nuff said really, with most folk now having a mobile phone there is no need for the road side box, took this today in Norfolk, (are they trying to tell us something????) Rog

The Mound is about where it say's 08 on the map great if the aircraft are landing from the west (Tattershall, but crash gate four is the place to get aircraft landing if coming from New York village/ Revesby end), all it is is a mound of earth that the farmer left at some point and people/plane spotters have sat on it taking photo's, you are actually a little higher than the aircraft as they land so could get some "on top shots" the farmer is ok about it as long as you don't block his dirt track access road off, best to use the proper car park and walk to it, about 200-300 mtrs, . Beefsteak,

I remember seeing something in the 60s about 65-66 when at school, what appeared to be a silver ball/globe very high up 20.000 ft plus it was heading west on a bright sunny day with not many clouds, what clouds there was were being blown in the opposite direction to the "ball" I know that don't mean much as clouds get blown all over the place at different altitudes but to us school boys it got us wondering, I've read the Von Daniken books as well as others and the one thing thats always gets me thinking is that all the strange phenomenon seems to happen in the middle and far east, whats your t

Ayup all, Display Typhoon up again this morning 08.15-08.45 getting more daring as the days pass by, Harvard back again lunchtime, KC 135 tanker doing bumps at Waddo this afternoon 13.00-14.00 as you say Ian "What more can a over age boy want" Looking forward to the 8th Rog

Hi firbeck, your new found ornithological friend would have a field day up here then, little egrets are in just about every ditch bottom and last year we even had a great egret and a glossy ibis, plenty of birds around now, over at Freiston shore yesterday were 200 plus dark belly Brents,15 plus Oyster catcher and 20 Avocets, (not the Nottstalgia one though) Rog

Yep, missed the lot, I wasn't driving otherwise I'd have stayed till the end, the guy's I went with were not interested enough to hang around, In my bag was the usual wet weather gear just in case, spare socks and a couple of plastic bags, one went wearing a suit, the other tee shirt and jeans, as we walked down the peri track towards the flightline a group of RAF regiment were walking in the opposite direction, ie towards us, one guy who was with us and "knows it all" said "I'm not moving over for no rock ape" with that he was picked up by both arms and escorted behind the nearest marquee sur

Yes I was there, very wet day, could hardly see the what was flying in because of the heavy drizzle, I remember the F5 dressed up in aggressor squadron markings but apart from the weather thats all that comes to mind, we left early, obviously, and the weather started to clear as we got closer to Nottingham so we stopped at Tollerton (Nottingham airport) and sat and watched all the light aircraft flying about in clear blue skies so we did get to see something flying at least Rog

firbeck, Check out the linconlshire bird club website, full of the latest sightings in this part of the world including all the birds that have come over the sea to our shores from the continent, there is also a comprehensive photo section which is a great help in identification. By the way, it's just been announced on Lincs FM radio that snow is expected in the region next week Rog