Duxford

Whilst Jill was playing tennis, boys and I went to Duxford aviation museum. We had an excellent time. Here are some of the highlights. First, the Blackbird, the fastest and highest flying plane ever:

Secondly, Ollie and Charlie underneath the bomb bay of the Vulcan. It is big. It was built to put nuclear weapons in:

A MIG -21 (very fast Russian plane):

The mammoth American Stratofortress:

And the 'never-to-go-into production' TRS-2:

There was lots of other good stuff too. Eight hangers of stuff. Too much to do in the time we had. We had a good look around the Big No.1 Hanger, the No.8 Land Warfare Hanger (including lots of WW2/D-Day/Monty), the No.7 American Hanger, and No.4 (I think), Battle of Britain Hanger. Definitely worth at least one long day, and probably two.

New Couch

Okay, so we have had this couch a while now, but I haven't posted for a few weeks. So some catching up posts to do. This corner used to be where the our desk was - it was butted up against the wall that you can't quite see on the left of the pic above. This corner sofa was from IKEA. We thought it would be horrible to assemble. It was pretty easy and the whole thing must have taken no more than 90 minutes to get up, and most of that was getting the covers pulled taut over the frame and cushions.