Blog Entries tagged 'Anniversaries'

Rumours of my death have been exaggerated

davids@r3uk.com — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Despite it being almost a year since this Blog was updated and about five months since the last article was written I can assure you I do still have a pulse (just about), however non-exciting DIY tasks and big work projects are keeping my time fully occupied at present so this website has been keeping it's bottom warm on the back-burner for a while.

Trouble is, I've been under pressure to give the wife what she wants in the bedroom which, disappointingly, means an in-built walk- [...]

Last flight of WF791 - 21 years on

davids@r3uk.com — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I lived in the suburb of Ernesford Grange in Coventry as a kid, about three miles from Coventry Airport (better known then as Baginton Airport).

Twenty one years ago today, my dad and I were watching the annual Warwickshire Air Pageant from our back garden. It was, like today, hot and sunny and our proximity to the airfield meant we had a good free view of all manner of wonderful aircraft flying over our house as they took off from Baginton and turned around to be back on the return f [...]