Yesterday, Sunday, saw me flying back to Scotland from Newquay airport. It is small in size as you can imagine. Anyway , Mark MofT had kindly given me a matchbox full of figures he didn’t need and was passing them on to me. More on the contents later. They caused great excitement at Security where they showed up as a significant black lump on the screen. All was well after a wee chat a peek inside. The security folk had a wry smile on their faces but seemed pleased at what it turned out to be.
A good flight and bus brought me home having had a great trip. Now once the shed is sorted out for the coming winter can l get back to some hobby projects...
Glad you had a great trip. Looks like you packed a lot in.
ReplyDeleteMy son usually flies from Manchester when he goes to Newquay. It’s crazy that it’s cheaper than the train.
Thank you, I did.
DeleteWhen I have flown before to Cornwall from Edinburgh l have had to change planes in Manchester. It used to be in off season. I like Manchester Airport with its train station and trams terminus ready to whisk one onwards...
Whoops! Spreading the joy of toy soldiers one airport security queue at a time ...
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the contents of the matchbox anyway.
I will and I enjoyed the toy soldier spreading of the word too. I am glad l hadn’t put them in the hold luggage...
DeleteI can literally see my house in the middle picture.
ReplyDeleteNice trip by the way.
DeleteSo that was you waving! :) how was Carronade?
ReplyDeleteCarronade was fine, well controlled and fairly safe. Everyone I saw was masked and nobody was crowded too much.
DeleteAbout 500 over the door but I suspect that most folk came, bought their goodies and left. I did.
Roll on 2022.
Alan, remind me to tell you sometime of when I was returning to the States with a couple of kilos of toy soldiers after returning from training at Grantham with the TA. The Security folks really didn't know what to say...
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I've taken the SESWC Ben Hur Chariot game to the Netherlands twice and the Czech Republic once by air hand luggage. They comprised six 4 horse 28mm metal chariots and crew, 6 wrecked metal chariots and 6 runaway teams of metal horses. They got scanned and opened a couple of times much to their surprise and amusement. On all three occasions they missed a modelling knife with 3 inch razor sharp blade.
DeleteSo that is the Special Relationship that exists between our countries Eric?
DeleteInteresting Jim. They were probably in awe of the painting.
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