Imappy and ezappy had an interesting afternoon and evening yesterday talking about old Chinnor and old Haddenham. From familiar locations, we ended up loading Google Earth and checking out the family's current territory: Nic and Jen's Singapore, peter-poppet and Jan's Orapa & Alfaz del Pi and Julian and Ruth's Mont Ventoux all in glorious satellite detail like in the film Patriot Games! (well not quite.. the detail is patchy and confined to topological features, but in Trafalgar Square you get a bird's eye view of Nelson's hat!)
Blogger- "Wasn't that the film you were in with Harrison Ford Steve?"
Ezappy- "Funny you should ask me that but yes Harrison is in most of the films I've been in actually..."
Blogger- "hep hem..hmm nnnyes!"
Cathy Julian and Nic were all born over the road from what was RAF Thame.
Some of us in those days would dis-appear all day up to larks. We used to leap off the roof of said control tower onto a pile of rubberised straw bales and make camps in the air-raid shelters that Martin Green had not been in and 'marked'!
By the 60's all that was left of the MOD installation apart from a number of rat infested air-raid shelters and a ruin of a control tower was a pile of old aircraft wings tyres and radio parts that resembled Nash's Totes Meer!
One fabulous day in 1962 was marked by the arrival and landing of an actual aeroplane, a Handley-Page Herald!
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