Petes Pix 2022

Imperial War Museum at Duxford   with Dan and Krisie. The  night before I played them the bit in the Battle of Britain film where the airfield is bombed and a hanger takes a direct hit. This was before CGI, and the filmmakers actually blew up the hanger. It was a glorious day and as we drove close we could see planes in the sky. Although it wasn't a flying display day there were many historic aircraft flying. We sat in the sun having our lunch with an uninterrupted view of planes taking off and landing. One was practising loop-the-loops, and flying up vertically then falling down before roaring off as it got close to the ground. We watched this Hurricane land. This Spitfire flew in the Battle of Britain film, and in January 2022 the Daily Telegraph wrote this about it A vintage Spitfire that fought in the Second World War and starred in the classic film The Battle of Britain is on sale for a record £4.5 million. The plane has an extraordinarily high number of original componen...

  Lunch today with Mike W at Aspava . Lovely hot day so we sat outside. There was a new lunch menu so for £10.90 we had two courses. My first was Aspava-Style Falafel, which the menu describes as  Fresh vegetable fritters containing mashed chickpeas, broad beans and served with hummus . A large basket of complimentary soft warm fluffy pitta bread came to the table and we also shared a carafe of Turkish red for £10.90. Main course was  Aspava Eggplant -  Roasted eggplant, capia peppers, onions, tomatoes, garlic, served with rice. Coffee afterwards. Delicious lunch, very welcoming service from owner/waiter, good company, short sleeve weather. Life's good.