Day: 11th 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…