It has gone, whatever 'IT' was that was troubling HER has gone, like water down a drain, it swirled about in HER brain for a while and then whooosh, it vanished! I think it was talking to Anne Beddo and Debi-in-Sheffield that did the trick. Oh, I am so glad that SHE is happy again, it takes a lot to make HER 'blue', I only heard a tiny bit of a conversation SHE had with Debi-in-Sheffield, SHE said "was such a slap in the face and I hate mean"...
We had a delicious break-the-fast today, I had Sunflower Bread with Whole Rye.. indeedy this stuff is truly SCRUMMYDUMPTIOUS! SHE makes HER own mix of oats, oat bran, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, dried white mulberries and barberries. WE have this with HOT Goaty milk when WE don't have buttery eggs. Why don't YOU try making your own cereal, then YOU know it won't be full of dreaded sugar... ugh.
I am not going to say all of the saying because SHE would put ME instantly into 'Black Book'... But it is still 'Brass Monkey Weather' here in London... oh, to be a Pirate's Parrot and to be sailing The Spanish Main, they didn't hang about in cold climates.. no, they swashbuckled their way around the Caribbean Islands and around Zanzibar.
SHE went to Zanzibar right at the beginning of the 70's, SHE and Pilot flew a small plane from The Isle of Wight all the way to Ndola, a town in Zambia, it took them over forty, yes FORTY, flying hours to do this but oh, what a lot of fun they had on the way!
Bembridge, Versailles, Alghero, Malta, Benghazi, Luxor, Khartoum, Addis Abba, Nairobi, Lusaka and Ndola. What a trip.. in a twin engine light aircraft called a Britten-Norman Islander. There was only one set of controls as this plane had been equipped to be a 'Flying Doctor' plane, it had the pilot's seat with controls, the co-pilots seat, which had no controls, was for the doctor and then behind was one seat and the rest was left empty for stretcher use. Their plane was full of spares with jurst enough space for their two small cases. This meant that when it was HER turn to fly, they had to swap seats in mid-air, as neither of them were small people it must have been pretty funny.
Lots of 'funny' things happened to them on this trip. One incident was when they landed at Addis Abbab, which is at a very high altitude. The plane touched down, the wheels rolled for a few yards and then BOTH engines cut out, the men in the Control Tower were obviously used to this happening for almost immediately a Land Rover came at high speed towards them with a tow rope, meanwhile there was a 747 stacking and waiting to 'come in', Pilot went onto the radio and apologised for 'blocking up the runway', back came laughter, for the 747 pilot was none other than an old friend of his from The Fleet Air Arm.
For YOU that are unfamiliar with the British Armed Forces, the Fleet Air Arm is the Royal Navy's Air Force, they fly the jets off Aircraft Carriers, these are HUGE ships that have flat decks. Because jets need to take off at high speed they are, literally, caterpulted off the ship... whoosh... they go up into the air.
When they had refuelled and stretched their legs a bit, SHE had a cup of tea in the canteen, "most unwise" said Pilot.. and off they flew, destination Nairobi... meanwhile higher up in the sky, they were flying at about five thousand feet (above sea level), there was the 747 also heading for Nairobi.. a bit of banter went between 747 and Britton Norman Islander.. and they arranged to have dinner together.
Suddenly SHE knew what Pilot had meant by "most unwise"... for the tea had whooshed through HER kidneys and there was another hour to go... luckily SHE knew the lay-out of the bit of Nairobi airfield where the 'light' aircraft come into... SHE hit the Tarmac running, threw her passport at the slightly startled man on the desk and made it into building.
Feeling considerably 'better' SHE apologised to the now very smiley man at the desk and took back HER passport, he laughed and told her that Pilot had gone 'to park' and that there was a message waiting for them at reception. The message was from 747 pilot, dinner was 'on him' at such and such restaurant. What a very jolly evening they had with a couple of local friends also invited to join the party. The next day was spent by the pool of the hotel, then the next morning the two sets of 'aircrew' said "see you in London" and the two planes flew off in different directions.
Pilot had lots of work to do when in Lusaka and Ndola, his company had the contract to supply The Flying Doctor Service with these tough little planes, they only need very short airstrips for take off and landing, so are ideal for up-country / bush work, they are the Land Rovers of the Sky. They enjoyed their time on this trip, Ndola is in the Copper Belt of Africa and that part of the trip was fascinating.
NOTE.... Must send the Rolex Watch Agent's TALE to Pierre Winkler, he would jurst LURVE this story. He is an old client of HERs and is the owner of Rolex.
And when they had finished all of the business in Zambia they spent a day relaxing by the hotel pool in Lusaka, they 'hopped' about on business in another light aircraft to such places as Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa and Zanzibar! And then back to Nairobi where they boarded an East African Airways jet and flew home to London.
SHE did other 'long haul' flights with Pilot, NO.. not today, I will tell YOU the Tale about HER Aircrew ID another time.
TootlePip, Dear Reader, I am going to flap MY wings to the YUMYUM Control Tower, aka Kitchen, because it is lunch time.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 12th, 2012
We had a delicious break-the-fast today, I had Sunflower Bread with Whole Rye.. indeedy this stuff is truly SCRUMMYDUMPTIOUS! SHE makes HER own mix of oats, oat bran, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, dried white mulberries and barberries. WE have this with HOT Goaty milk when WE don't have buttery eggs. Why don't YOU try making your own cereal, then YOU know it won't be full of dreaded sugar... ugh.
I am not going to say all of the saying because SHE would put ME instantly into 'Black Book'... But it is still 'Brass Monkey Weather' here in London... oh, to be a Pirate's Parrot and to be sailing The Spanish Main, they didn't hang about in cold climates.. no, they swashbuckled their way around the Caribbean Islands and around Zanzibar.
SHE went to Zanzibar right at the beginning of the 70's, SHE and Pilot flew a small plane from The Isle of Wight all the way to Ndola, a town in Zambia, it took them over forty, yes FORTY, flying hours to do this but oh, what a lot of fun they had on the way!
Bembridge, Versailles, Alghero, Malta, Benghazi, Luxor, Khartoum, Addis Abba, Nairobi, Lusaka and Ndola. What a trip.. in a twin engine light aircraft called a Britten-Norman Islander. There was only one set of controls as this plane had been equipped to be a 'Flying Doctor' plane, it had the pilot's seat with controls, the co-pilots seat, which had no controls, was for the doctor and then behind was one seat and the rest was left empty for stretcher use. Their plane was full of spares with jurst enough space for their two small cases. This meant that when it was HER turn to fly, they had to swap seats in mid-air, as neither of them were small people it must have been pretty funny.
Lots of 'funny' things happened to them on this trip. One incident was when they landed at Addis Abbab, which is at a very high altitude. The plane touched down, the wheels rolled for a few yards and then BOTH engines cut out, the men in the Control Tower were obviously used to this happening for almost immediately a Land Rover came at high speed towards them with a tow rope, meanwhile there was a 747 stacking and waiting to 'come in', Pilot went onto the radio and apologised for 'blocking up the runway', back came laughter, for the 747 pilot was none other than an old friend of his from The Fleet Air Arm.
For YOU that are unfamiliar with the British Armed Forces, the Fleet Air Arm is the Royal Navy's Air Force, they fly the jets off Aircraft Carriers, these are HUGE ships that have flat decks. Because jets need to take off at high speed they are, literally, caterpulted off the ship... whoosh... they go up into the air.
When they had refuelled and stretched their legs a bit, SHE had a cup of tea in the canteen, "most unwise" said Pilot.. and off they flew, destination Nairobi... meanwhile higher up in the sky, they were flying at about five thousand feet (above sea level), there was the 747 also heading for Nairobi.. a bit of banter went between 747 and Britton Norman Islander.. and they arranged to have dinner together.
Suddenly SHE knew what Pilot had meant by "most unwise"... for the tea had whooshed through HER kidneys and there was another hour to go... luckily SHE knew the lay-out of the bit of Nairobi airfield where the 'light' aircraft come into... SHE hit the Tarmac running, threw her passport at the slightly startled man on the desk and made it into building.
Feeling considerably 'better' SHE apologised to the now very smiley man at the desk and took back HER passport, he laughed and told her that Pilot had gone 'to park' and that there was a message waiting for them at reception. The message was from 747 pilot, dinner was 'on him' at such and such restaurant. What a very jolly evening they had with a couple of local friends also invited to join the party. The next day was spent by the pool of the hotel, then the next morning the two sets of 'aircrew' said "see you in London" and the two planes flew off in different directions.
Pilot had lots of work to do when in Lusaka and Ndola, his company had the contract to supply The Flying Doctor Service with these tough little planes, they only need very short airstrips for take off and landing, so are ideal for up-country / bush work, they are the Land Rovers of the Sky. They enjoyed their time on this trip, Ndola is in the Copper Belt of Africa and that part of the trip was fascinating.
NOTE.... Must send the Rolex Watch Agent's TALE to Pierre Winkler, he would jurst LURVE this story. He is an old client of HERs and is the owner of Rolex.
And when they had finished all of the business in Zambia they spent a day relaxing by the hotel pool in Lusaka, they 'hopped' about on business in another light aircraft to such places as Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa and Zanzibar! And then back to Nairobi where they boarded an East African Airways jet and flew home to London.
SHE did other 'long haul' flights with Pilot, NO.. not today, I will tell YOU the Tale about HER Aircrew ID another time.
TootlePip, Dear Reader, I am going to flap MY wings to the YUMYUM Control Tower, aka Kitchen, because it is lunch time.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 12th, 2012
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