Wallaroo

Spike Milligan - the Goons Peter Sellers - the Goons Harry Secombe ('Sir Cumference') - the Goons John Cleese - Fawlty Towers John Cleese - with the Python Crew

P4 MUST have a Snipe in it. I just can't see what all the fuss is about if it doesn't.

Oops!! Couldn't help thinking about Ned Kelly - Australian colonial bushranger (outlaw) who was active around the mid-late 19th century in NSW and Victoria (2 states in Australia).

Couldn't help thinking about Ned Kelly - Australian colonial bushranger (outlaw) who was active around the mid-late 19th century in NSW and Victoria (2 states in Australia).

Gentlemen, Thank you all! Olham and Cameljockey, much appreciated though your input is, the concept of swearing off my research at this time is not practical. Sir Mike, I'll keep my eye out for Blue Moon. Tranquillo, thanks for the link to the Spitfire Ale website - that'll do the rounds when I get home - and it was a lovely drop! Widowmaker, Our plan is to drive up and have a look at Hadrian's Wall before we go back to Oz, and I notice High House Farm Brewery is quite close - a necessary diversion I think. Thanks again

My dear wife and I have been in the UK for the last three weeks, and are returning to Australia next Friday. We'll be spending the rest of our time visiting different places around Durham. Our son is here with his lovely wife and three of our precious grandchildren while he completes a doctorate in Biblical studies at Durham University. My dilemma is this: what easily obtainable, local ales should I be trying before we return? As I type I'm enjoying a very palatable (unchilled) Spitfire Kentish Ale as recommended by UK Widowmaker, but being from Kent, it's hardly local. Suggestions as to culinary accompaniments (other than crisps) for any recommended ales would be most welcome - although an ale and crisps is a treat in itself. Thanks in advance, Wallaroo

That's just not funny!

Regarding the RE8; an extract from a short history of 3Sqn AFC, in Chapter 3 (The Eyes of the Army) of 'Men and Machines of the Australian Flying Corps', published by Kookaburra Publications in the 1970's: QUOTE Despite the fact that an RE8 often had to contend with something like half a dozen fast enemy fighters, losses from these combats were relatively light and in quite a few cases resulted in another victory for the squadron score. One of the flight commanders, Capt E. J. Jones, seemed to attract German fighters in the same way that a honeypot attracts bees, and he was instrumental in two of his observers adding to the list with a Pfalz falling to the Lewis gun of Lt A. L. D. Taylor on 21st April (the day of Richthofen's death), and a Fokker triplane to Lt R. Hainsworth on 16th May. Unfortunately, another fight with triplanes four days later resulted in Jones being wounded and Taylor being killed, although the stricken pilot managed to reach his aerodrome. UNQUOTE

I'd like to see them too - please post the pix.

Those Hawker biplanes just looked so right. They - and the Gladiator - and the Avia 534. Don't get me wrong - my SE5a, my Camel and - maybe one day - my Snipe, are right up there too.

This is all too cryptic! The Fury was a single seater, land based fighter. The Hart was a two seater, land based army co-op/bomber. The picture shows a single seater, arrestor hook equipped, RN marked aircraft; which suggests maritime connections. Think of the maritime patrol / AEW aircraft, based on the de Haviiland Comet, in RAF Service. The mighty hunter from Genesis 10: Nimrod.

The great conqueror of Assyria (Genesis 10)??

Oops! - little scum-sucking Pond Life?? - I presume you're talking about a cess pond!

Suspiciously like Peter Jackson's exhausting to watch, brilliantly executed, panoramic screen presentation, titled something like 'Over the Lines', at the Australian War Memorial Museum in Australia's national capital (Canberra). One of the most immersive pieces of the cinematographer's art I've eve seen!!