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- Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:06 pm
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: For beer connoisseurs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 37762
Re: For beer connoisseurs
Saffron Walden....... no, hardly for poseurs - have not been for ages but remember it as quite nice and ordinary ...... but then things change! Talking to a chap last Sunday from London (well I do make concessions) who had recently visited Poole - which always seemed fairly civilised to me - and he ...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:54 pm
- Forum: In Memoriam
- Topic: Air Commodore Gordon Steege 1917 - 2013
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9824
Re: Air Commodore Gordon Steege 1917 - 2013
Yes... some of these chaps have had an extra ordinary career. A neighbour (now deceased) started on Heyfords, when War broke out he was put onto Battles and was shot down in France. Escaped and went onto Blenheims and all of the "heavies". He ended up, after hostilities commanding a squadr...
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 2:16 pm
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: For beer connoisseurs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 37762
Re: For beer connoisseurs
Not surprised at that old chap - Rye is notoriously expensive and always has been - it is the poseurs etc., bit like parts of North Norfolk. Think I remember the place you mention - and of course the Mermaid Inn was rather pricy too.
- Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:35 pm
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: For beer connoisseurs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 37762
Re: For beer connoisseurs
Well there you are......... civilised and lucid! See ... told you so! Do you also know I always thought Duxford was in Cambridgeshire - strange, perhaps they moved it after the airfield became non operational? North Essex of course is quite nice - not until you get nearer to London that it becomes a...
- Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:57 am
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: For beer connoisseurs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 37762
Re: For beer connoisseurs
Excellent - another tripper leaving! Hurrah. I feel slightly displeased with myself as I forgot you were coming and as our trip is delayed for a day or three we could have met. But it will soon pass. So you found something "interesting" in Dereham.... what exactly - do tell. But in fairnes...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:46 pm
- Forum: In Memoriam
- Topic: Wing Commander Ken Wallis
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8534
Wing Commander Ken Wallis
Peacefully last Sunday morning - not long after receiving his "clasp".
Amazing fellow - absolutely bright as a button - could chat for ages and never miss a beat nor repeat himself.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... allis.html
Amazing fellow - absolutely bright as a button - could chat for ages and never miss a beat nor repeat himself.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... allis.html
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:40 pm
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: For beer connoisseurs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 37762
Re: For beer connoisseurs
Well Neale we will make allowances for your unsophisticated palate. These beers do not travel well so cannot be enjoyed in your fair Country. Spitfire comes from Kent which runs a poor second to Norfolk. Lancaster is by Thwaites from Blackburn. Yes.........OK. To my detriment there are still many pu...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:40 am
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: For beer connoisseurs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 37762
For beer connoisseurs
A stirling beer....... Brewed by one of our local micro breweries - not tired it yet - but no doubt will be able to force one down..... in the interests of the distribution of knowledge. It is described as a "malty red bitter with toffee notes(?)". ABV 4.5%. http://www.beestonbrewery.co.uk...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:17 pm
- Forum: 'The Mess Inn'
- Topic: Sad But True ...........
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10020
Re: Sad But True ...........
Yes - my Uncle was a Wop/AG and on the night he was killed he was in the mid upper - on a Halifax BI MkII - which resembled a goldfish bowl being even more exposed psychologically than the Lancaster mid upper! I often wondered how it must have been like though - right up there - sticking out like th...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:00 pm
- Forum: Modelling Section
- Topic: Flying model Lancaster
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9770
Re: Flying model Lancaster
Max, it is controlled electrically (and to me that is a very dark and mysterious place). Principally there is a small board with - less than an inch square with all kinds of gadgetry and 3 "pots' (?) which you can adjust to give duration and speed of the motors so that for example you can taxi ...