Astons on Islands
Congrats on the OI Malcolm! the tennis elbow is slowly getting better, so I should soon be back at work on ROJ - although I’ve got a way to go to catch up with you!
Have just had fun with some big toys - flew to the Isles of Scilly from Bristol on a Twin Otter - saw a pair of Basking Sharks swimming slowly down Bristol Channel. Travel between the islands was by Hamilton jet boat at 50 knots…
Flew back to Penzance in a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter and from Newquay to Gatwick in a BAe Dash-8. It may have been work, but the commute was fantastic!
Very few classic cars on the islands - the salt air would disolve a centurion tank before your eyes. One resident did bring over an Aston Martin DB4, but sent it back to the mainland pretty quickly.
We did find a BMW with sat nav highly amusing, I mean, on an island of 1554 acres!
And the flies!! It was a bit like Australia. You would have had little tracks all over the OI if you had painted it there.