Month: June 2012
The 80th Birthday of Ed Bishop
Welcome to this special update. June 11th 2012 would have been George Victor Bishop’s 80th birthday, and the Herald is commemorating this special occasion with a selection of photographs of Ed Bishop in some of his various roles throughout his long career. -~o~- After receiving this truly extraordinary comment and eulogy to Ed from our reader Griff Wason, it was decided to append it to this article to display, properly…
Glitch in the Machine-An (Chapters 2 & 3)
Chapter 2 Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. In the end Straker had decided to use a local airline rather than expose one of their own machines on a flight to Reykjavik. Thus it had been Iceland Air which had taken them to Keflavík International Airport. Now Paul Foster and he were sitting in a small charter plane bound for east-coast Egilsstadir Airport. If…
The Boat
One last bit to stick on. Make sure there’s not too much glue. Don’t use so much the fumes get to you. Like a guy would do that. John Rutland looked at the model his Dad brought him the last time he visited. It was a good boat and John was very proud to be able to put it together all by himself. Now, it had to dry before he…
Leadership Exercise
Some time ago, in another UFOverse we were issued a challenge. The Challenge was as follows: Ed Straker is found dead in an alley way in London. There are no marks on the body. Toxicology has not been completed. The only clue to what has happened is a suitcase containing a red space suit. As the protem leader of SHADO, what do you do? You have five minutes. The…
