Joris

Psssst. Rosie is inbound too!!

Don't worry too much, Chris, we are expanding the staff further so we all have our personal assistant. More staff announcements to follow in the coming weeks!

The thing on the left is a: Bombardons: A number of ideas were considered for breakwaters. The first of these involved the use of compressed air. Perforated pipes were to be laid on the sea bottom around the area to be protected and compressed pumped through it. The result was a calm area within which ships were able to discharge at the piers. Although the principle was quite sound, the trials proved that the pipes would be moved in any heavy swell and that an enormous amount of power was required (at least 1.5 million horse-power for an area half that required). Robert Lochner, who was in charge of this project, thought about what the were trying to achieve and realised that waves were in fact only surface deep and, therefore, only a shallow barrier was required. From experiments in his garden pond with a lilo, Lochner and his team went on to produce a floating, steel hollow cruciform “tube” which would form a suitable breakwater (code name Bombardon - to suggest a link with anti-aircraft defences) http://www.hksw.org/despatches_107_1_a.htm

W00t!! :dancinggirls:

Blimey mate, so sorry to hear this..

Fantastic pictures!!

Brilliant stuff, Snap!

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Fantastic mate! :tup::

Welcome to the forum, Paul! Please report to Dave for cookhouse duty now...

The heroes of the event! :tup::

It was our pleasure and a lot of fun to help out! Thanks again for taking such good care of us! :kissoncheek:

I've fixed the links in the original post and removed the wrong links in other peoples quotes. My pics are here: https://plus.google.com/photos/115648956477820632417/albums/5758341429084047633?authkey=CLzBnPS5sbr6uwE Thanks everyone for this fantastic weekend, everybody made me feel at home and was very, very friendly. Without that these events just aren't fun!

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All packing is finished now, depart in 12 hours!!

Should be mostly dry after today!

Will do my best!!!

Well not really live as I'm still at home but Jack sent me the following messages: Olaf on site and Degsy A halftrack, weasel, jimmy and a mack

Of course!! Would not dare arrive in an A10 Warthog.

We should be jumping right over Dorchester! I wish...

Hope the first made it to the campsite alright! Today at the office and tomorrow up and down the country for meetings with customers... Friday morning, 7AM leave for airport, arrive in Dorchester around 13:00h zulu! Can't wait!!! @Adrian, blimey mate what you have to go through for A&E!! Most would have given up, it's a credit to you!

I thought that was enemy propaganda.

No cant bring it on the plane.. Alfa beer

I might be able to stick them in my carry-on luggage

I'll meet up with you guys on Friday afternoon in Dorchester!