Sunday Has Raced Around Again,

where has the week gone?

time for a read and a sherry,

for our starter a crab stick salad,

'Cheers!',

Diana had a frozen slushy,

which she declared was quite nice,

for today roast pork with crackling, with gravy for Diana,

san gravy for myself,

sticky toffee pudding with cream and ice cream for dessert,

delicious!

we decided on an old favorite for the rest of the afternoon, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, which was great fun, and also surprisingly accurate in the aircraft filmed in it, the are two real vintage aircraft to be seen in this film. The first is a 1910 Deperdussin Monoplane is seen "revving-up" on the ground when we first arrive at Brookley. The second is a 1912 Blackburn 'Type D' Monoplane, twenty aircraft were built for the film and six of them could actually fly. There is a sequence in the film where seven aircraft are seen in the air, one was added post-production, two of the replicas (the "1910 Bristol Boxkite" and the "1911 Roe IV Triplane") built for the film still fly across the English countryside as both are preserved in the "Shuttleworth Collection" based at Old Warden, Bedfordshire, in the evening we watched an Endeavor followed by a Silent Witness before we were off to bed.