Picnics, Pubs, aeroplanes and Traff's Grandad.

Right, before I get started on today, I'd like to just point out how much my boyfriend looks like his grandfather...


And how summery we al look! I now have a sunburnt face, chest, neck and arms and I sprayed dry suncream in my eye.
Summer must be here. I'm red.


We took our picnic up to houghton house- I won't bore you with more photos -I've posted plenty on yesterdays blog post- but this was our lunchtime view.
Is that not a fair prospect?

After we'd been sat out for about an hour the sun went behind a massive cloud and we started to feel a bit chilly- so we took ourselves into Ampthill for a pint or two... (Of soda and lime in my case).

Then we went to the Shuttleworth collection.

Accidentally via Shuttleworth college- which is an imposing building- and they have alpacas.
True story.

Anyways- We took Traff's Grandad to look at aeroplanes as during ww2 he was an aeroplane technician, and we thought he'd enjoy explaining them to us.
And he did- We learned loads today!

For example- Amungst a great many other things, today I learned that this kind of plane was used for espionage during WW2 as it only needed a short landing strip. like a pre-runner of a jump jet. so they could drop spies off.


And I learned that this is used for winding planes propellers up- He also showed us how you do it manually and told us a story about someone he worked with who did it wrong and had their arm taken off!


This an aeroplane engine- without an aeroplane- how do the even get off the ground?! most aeroplane engines were made by rolls royce.





I had a really lovely day today, And it was action packed.
:)
And full of stories.

I like it when people tell me stories about their lives. proper stories.
I enjoy spending time with Traff's Grandad because he's done almost EVERYTHING he's 92 this year and what he doesn't know probably isn't worth knowing.

The other person who's stories I really enjoy is my Dad- That used to be the highlight of my driving lessons as a teenager- We'd take Frank-the-ford-escort out on the downs- and he'd point out places he'd been to as a teenager, In my Grandad Mac's Maxi.

He told me that when he was in the car with his mates they used to drive up the downs, then turn the engine off for the downhill journey and see if they could get further than last time!