Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Thursday. An almost tropical 12°C this morning outside. The wee man on the idiot box is just telling us that is going to change today. Jack Frost is on his way.
We had a lovely day yesterday. We had a guide to show us round the helicopter museum, he was very knowledgeable and gave us a very good guided tour. I learned a few things.

I'm hoping the shower room saga ends today, but I won't bet on it!

Have a happy day everyone.

[Buenchico]

Good morning, Boaty.

The forecast sugests that we'll get very wet before we get very cold.

The best guided tour I ever went on was at a sewage plant! I'd seen that Anglian Water were offering free guided tours one Sunday and I managed to drag my father along. We got there late in the day and we were the last visitors. So we got a guided tour all to ourselves, with a guy who was as enthusiastic about his subject as Dr Magnun Pyke (remember him?) would have been. i.e. his arms were flailing about as explained the movements of unmentionable substances through the plant and he made his talk thoroughly enhoyable. One of the best free days out I've ever had!

[seekeerz]

Oh dear Chris ....you have lead a sheltered life haven't you :((

[seekeerz]

Btw good morning to you both xxx

[waterboatman]

Morning chris and seekz. xxx

I can imagine that would be interesting Chris. finding out how anything works is interesting to me. :o}

[Buenchico]

>>> you have lead a sheltered life haven't you

Yes, that's me:
Pure, sweet and innocent ;-)

[waterboatman]

How's things in your part of puɐןdnǝpısuʍop today Steff?

[waterboatman]

Chris KI bet you tell porkies about other thing too mate! :o}

[seekeerz]

Oh dear boaty, you're nearly as much of a worry as Chris is, though I wouldn't buy sweet and innocent about either of you !!

Boaty don't tell me the 'shower saga' is still going on....that's just ridiculous, really !!

[waterboatman]

Where did that K come from. Wasn't me guv, onist!

[seekeerz]

A bit crazy right now, boaty ....OH had his first chemo yesterday ( 2 hour session..took 6 !! ) and starts radiation next Tuesday, then full on thru to the end of January ....

[waterboatman]

:o} At times Steff I would have loved a bit of sheltered life!

Yes. It's still not finished. I'm hoping it will be today. I'm not holding my breath though.

[Eleena]

Morning waterman, everyone,
Magnus even Buen ... Wasn't he brilliant! ;0)

[Buenchico]

Good morning/afternoon, Seekerz, BTW.

I've not been to the helicopter museum at Weston, Boaty, but I have been on the beach there when there was a big event on, with helicopters taking off and landing on the beach all the time.

We get a bit fed up of helicopters around here though, with the army's biggest chopper base in the country just down the road at Wattisham. The Suffolk Police helicopter is based there too and, up until recently, the RAF air-sea rescue base was also there. So we get helicopters flying over our houses day and night. (It can sound like a scene from the movie M*A*S*H* here at times, especially when there's a big exercise on).

[waterboatman]

Sweet and innocent is no fun! ;o}

[waterboatman]

I can sympathise with that Chris, but at the same time it's nice to know that the noisy aircraft are part of the big, professional machine that keep us safe. We have RAF Fairford not far away, the B52's and others can be a bit noisy, but it's nice to know they are on the job.

[Eleena]

Morning seekerz,
sorry to hear that.

[Buenchico]

Good morning, Eleena.

The locals around here aren't averse to aircraft noise, Boaty. Many people say that they miss the Phantom jets flying in and out of Wattisham (when it was still an RAF base). They were far noisier than the choppers but people had a fondness for the Phantoms, which they don't seem to have for helicopters.

[waterboatman]

Morning lina xxx All well today? :o}

Steff I know what you are both going through, been there, done that. You have my sympathy and I wish you both a successful outcome. xxx

[waterboatman]

Chris some people don't appreciate the vital roll helicopters play today. They carry out vital rolls like Air/Sea Rescue, they can go places fixed wing aircraft can't even think about.

[waterboatman]

I wish we still had the Harriers though. Scrapping them was a big mistake, they were so versatile and had plenty of life still in them and the pilots loved them!