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No, Opto knows he's safe :>)
Actually at the risk of sounding a cheap date, Tesco's brandy
is OK too - all goes the same route ;>)

;>)
I'm waiting for Dave to appear and tell me he's got a consignment
of brandy at a reasonable price now, if I want to stock up!

It always tastes better if it goes via someone else's wallet first, bunny! But given his pallor, could you pass opto a snifter of brandy, please?

Well unfortunately it looks as though the global flyer mission is going to fail, I posted earlier that I felt they had a fuel problem and they have now confirmed that they think they have lost a lot of fuel, they now have insufficient to complete the mission without good tail winds. The global flyer soon heads out over the Pacific and they will want to decide how bad the fuel situation is before they start that long crossing. If they terminate it then Steve will probably land in Japan but if they do start the pacific flight they will continue to review it and if necessary terminate the attempt in Hawaii.

I hope the tail winds pick up and the attempt succeeds but if it does fail its really an indication of how difficult there pioneering flights are. Remember this is being driven by brilliant private individuals who are putting their reputations, money and lives at risk, they don't have to do it but in my opinion the world is a much better place thanks to people like this.

No problem, one small brandy for you Opto, medicinal purposes as
Priscilla is worried about you.

Agreed Spacie.

The burrow is experience email problems - they arrive but
stubbornly refuse to leave! Where's that carrier pigeon?

In the le cresuset casserole, bunny. Gently stewed since about 10am.

Why haven't I seen anything on the news about this global flyer, spacey?

Ah bun and curses - so i'll have to wait for AOL to resolve
it's email bottle neck then - gave this sort of thing up with
the car!

P you will !

Bun, how did you get the car to send your emails? I know it's a sort of delivery system, but, err.....

Oh Priscilla, what a thing to do to pidgeons!!! I prefer the breasts thinly sliced and gently stir fried, leaves much more flavour in them :-)
Thanks for the brandy it is always good for the colour, perhaps if I had another I may aquire a nice warm glow.

P and a slightly more thoughtful answer ...

Its not well covered, technology and science are very badly reported, we don't see much about the likelihood that their is life on Mars, not that there has been life but that it is there now, its not confirmed but their seems to be a growing feeling that it is there. You don't here much about sub atomic particles and physics. Its not seen as sexy or interesting and its a shame.

But we see plenty about useless stuff like big ears visit to Australia and other trivia ;-)

Right how about a nice slice of LDC, any going spare ?

Trust me, opto. Bunny's emails were l-o-n-g. Those carrier pigeons were exhausted and muscle-bound. They were not 'roastable'. Even cooked gently with apple, cinnamon and finished with cream, they don't look up to much.

Big plate of brandysnaps for tea. Bowl of brandy butter cream for those who prefer to dip ...and get sloshed at the same time.

Keep an eye out for lambykins. Spacey'll go crazy if lamby comes home drunk again.

Interesting!
Signed off the 'net, deleted all temp internet files and signed
back on again and all email now appears to have been sent!

Double choccie muffins anyone? :>)

Afternoon all - been fun in here today!

Well done Hilary's daughter ... and Hilary too :-))

Just in time for brandysnaps, I see ... yum.

Hello jj. yes Bunny time for a muffin please.

I just found Socs on the 1861 census

1861 Census

Oh jeffMack - that's merciless
;>)

Hello. Home from ones daily travail. Wind, sleet and snow most of the day so been indoors annoying everone else at work.

Jeffmack
Fibber (I never sent the return in that year!)