An interesting friend.........

[Saracenman]

i received an interesting and uplifting email from my retired Brigadier friend (who moves in some astonishing circles) the other day, as follows:

[Mrs. Brigadier] staged one of her smart double-barrelled luncheon parties yesterday. One of the guests was our neighbour ****, unaccompanied by her husband, who, though perfectly normal and pleasant in every other way, has a passion for motor cars - apparently there was something more interesting than our party going on at Goodwood.
[She] arrived full of the news that her husband had just rung her in an excited, indeed emotional state, to say that there had been a Vulcan flight. Did I mention [her] surname? ............... [The] grandfather invented aeroplanes or something, and his firm produced the Vulcan?? Anyway, [he] was very chuffed about it.

(typical Brigadier dry humour! )

my Brigadier friend popped in today for a cuppa, bringing a postcard of thanks (for the nosh up) - this one...



the description is as follows:
Alliott Verdon Roe by the AVRO Arches on Walthamstow Marshes preparing the AVROPLANE in 1909 for flight trials.

my friend's lunch guest's surname is Verdon Roe - her husband is none other than the grandson of A V Roe!

interesting! my mind is now going at 200mph to see if i can develop 'things' for 558's benefit

sm

[Iggie]

There has to be some mileage in that idea SM; go to it!!

[Mayfly]

will you now still speak to us lowly types now you are moving in higher circles SM?

[Spitfire]

How VERY fascinating - there's GOT to be something in that for XH558 I would have thought

GO SM

[Dan4th]

As you probably know, SM, I am a firm
believer in the "There is No Such Thing
as an Accident" school of thought......

Danf.

[Saracenman]

indeed Danf - and, as per our last conversation, an email has already been sent with an offer of a freebie!

i SHALL be pursuing this as far as possible!

sm

[RLN]

Go for it SM.

[Mackrick]

will you now still speak to us lowly types now you are moving in higher circles SM?

Everything is higher than the circles SM is in

[Mayfly]

OH YEAH

[MadNaddy]

And you all when I call him a Blonde God!!!












Sometimes this dumb bint from ooop north knows what she's talking about

[Sad Sam3]

Which one of these is he?

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8014

It really is a small world.

[Xplumberlives]

And you all when I call him a Blonde God!!!
Sometimes this dumb bint from ooop north knows what she's talking about

But not very often!

[Mayfly]

And you all when I call him a Blonde God!!!
Sometimes this dumb bint from ooop north knows what she's talking about

But not very often!

Especially in reference to SM!!



[PS I love the way spill chucker tries to change Xplumberlives to Palmolive]

[Xplumberlives]

I shall always remind S.M. of how he moans that so little happens in his small Dorset hamlet!

[MadNaddy]

[PS I love the way spill chucker tries to change Xplumberlives to Palmolive]

Fairy Liquid indeed!!!!
Hang on - I can't call him that!!!

[Xplumberlives]

PS I love the way spill chucker tries to change Xplumberlives to Palmolive]

You use spill chucker, I hadn't noticed!

[Mayfly]

as I said in another thread thats because you need stronger specs....

anyway back on topic - is SM inferring by the title of this thread that he doesn't find his friends on here interesting?

[Saracenman]

could "an interesting friend" refer to MY friend, or to HIS friend?

[Mayfly]

ha - trying to dig your way out now

[Dan4th]

[Saracenman]

not in the least - i chose my ambiguous title intentionally so as not upset my peasant-friends

sm

[Gully]

I believe SM's friend's friend is Eric Verdon-Roe: the chap on the left in these pictures:





All 4 of them are direct descendents of Alliot Verdon-Roe: they were at Goodwood (where Bobby Verdon-Roe was racing) and Ian Glasse invited them across to the Vulcan Village, where they spent 10-15min chatting, signing the Avro Vulcan publicity poster you can see in the photo and buying a few things! They are hugely proud, impressed, appreciative and supportive of what the Club and Trust are doing and are in contact with both Robert Pleming and Michael Trotter.

Cheers,

Gully

[Saracenman]

i wasn't aware, until now, that the AVRs were already associated with VTS - hurrah!

it might make my 'wooing' considerably easier! the fact that it now seems that they are also my NEIGHBOURS........

sm

[Xplumberlives]

i wasn't aware, until now, that the AVRs were already associated with VTS - hurrah!
it might make my 'wooing' considerably easier! the fact that it now seems that they are also my NEIGHBOURS........
sm

Are they aware that the property prices are dropping fast?

[Bubbles]

At the Cosby Victory Show we met Roy Chadwicks nephew.