the few...

Salute to the few.
When I was a boy we were brought up on the Battle Of Britain and now it is just more or less a memory.
Sir Keith Park was the man on the ground and when it was over he went to Malta and did it again and then on to Burma where he did it again.
Truly a magnificent warrior and defender of the faith.

Why the Beaver?
That is Johnny Jenkins in Zk-BFO at Papataw, Woodville.
When I was a boy I would spend my holidays in Dannevirke and he loved to take me flying.
He has passed now but he was a real gentleman  a fine person and a great pilot.
He would have made a good fighter pilot.
He told me neat stories about being in England when they were making the Battle Of Britain movie and tootling  home one day after a days spraying in Scotland and being bounced by a Me 109s and Spitfires in his tiny 180hp Piper Pawnee.
Later he went to the Sudan spraying cotton.
They used to fly non stop from Switzerland to Sudan in Pilatus Porters at 26,000 feet on oxygen over the Med.
Fare the well Johnny and I hope you have a fair wind.

now back to the real.
Ex mayor of Masterton Bob Francis has become a real meddler, addicted to spending the taxpayers money and sticking his beak into everything.
Now he is an art expert pandering to bullshit artists and getting ready to drop half a mill on some artist for their vision.
You know.
right up there with Ohakunes carrot and Paeroas big bottle of L&P.
Wow Masterton will really be on the map then!
and now he wants to tear up Queen Elizabeth Park for a totally unecessary stop bank which has some questions attached.
Where is the money coming from and what will happen to the money if it is not used?
Masterton Park was designated nearly two centuries ago and no local body politician has resisted the temptation of leaving their mark and stuffing it with another doodad.
The concept of less is more seems to be totally alien to these acquisitive noo noo heads.
Just cram another expensive item in and all will be jake.
Nooooooooooooooooo.

and the groundsman next door at Carter Court (Carterton) has really got into a snit.
he has begun spraying the verges of the greenpatch they call a lawn.
Anybody who knows anything about lawn culture knows that when you spray in this situation then the lawn starts to retreat and all you are left with is an ugly scar.
There is no grass on it.
Only weeds.
But hey.
He has the job so fuck anyone else!
When its not what yo know but who you know then ignorance is at a premium.