Sewerby Cricket Club

I can't imagine that there's much you and your colleagues could do to boost the figures... Special Offer - Have a Wedding, Get One Free? Press Gangs roaming country lanes in search of courting couples to drag off to the altar?

Did you tell him there'd be more when the boat comes in?

Similarly, how many acts of heroism worthy of a VC were performed but nobody survived to report them?

It was - some might say - a wizard meeting, and the new archive facilities made me more than somewhat envious. It was well worth the trip from darkest Hertfordshire, marred only by a puncture on the return some 100 miles from home. In the rain...

"One of our databases is missing"?

Similar situation down south. Suppose I should see the positive side and be glad I'm (officially at least) young and healthy...

An improvement!

This was fun. I'm looking forward to the second session, which begins at 2100 UK time.

I didn't even have to move them: they were already next to each other.

I'm looking forward to presenting in the first session of this online event, on RFC and RAF manuals and related literature. The session starts on Saturday at 0900 UCT (that's GMT in old money).

And you. I must apologise for not recognising you - we must have a longer chat next time!

Splendid indeed - I don't think Midge and I have seen each other since the launch of her Amy book, 22 years ago! Started the book on the train home, and it's looking good.

My Sheffield relatives called them ginnells, whereas my wife tells me that in Worcestershire they're stickets.

I believe the wartime women were known as Lumberjills, so perhaps Lumberjane? Although Jane wouldn't want to be lumbered with such terminological trivia...

Tyres are getting more expensive, due to... inflation.

Black and white makes it look even colder than it usually is!

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a chap about Prest's Phantom book. He said it had inspired him to join the RAF, although just too late to fly Phantoms; he had to make do (not his words!) with the Tornado. As someone else has said, it's on a par with Richard Bach's Stranger to the Ground.

Winter draw(er)s on!