The Last Show of 2021

 Today was a 'Flying Day', which usually has about 90 minutes of air show; this one had three and half hours, including the BBMF Lancaster and two Spitfires, plus the Typhoon jet.  Other aircraft were the de Havilland 89A Dragon Rapide, the Hawker Hind, a tail-chasing Fieseler Storch and Piper Cub, and areobatics from a Buecker Jungmann. 

In a Country Churchyard

 A large group of photographers invaded Toft churchyard this evening with flash and model (the angel, top pic) and I took along my fisheye lens.  

Two More Bikes . . .

             A Velocette MAC, but I'm not sure what engine size, and a BMW ?900. 

More From Cadwell Park

Top pic is the view from Park Straight, the highest point on the circuit.  The start must be the lowest point.   

 

Cadwell Park (Sunday)

After a comfortable evening meal and night at the Brackenborough Hotel in Louth, we got to the circuit about 9.30.  It was cold and quite misty, and it looked as if racing might be delayed.  However, the mist cleared enough and it was soon sunny and hot. 

When I first saw this Morgan, I thought the pilot had just placed a helmet on the other seat to fool the scrutineers, but at Hall Bends I got eye contact with the tiny human being inside. 

                     One of Andy Molnar's Manx bikes.

The man and his machine, with a superb monochrome portrait of himself in the awning.

 We're looking forward to our next visit to Cadwell.

Cadwell Park (Saturday)

Ann, Peter and I went to the racing together, as there were queues at the petrol stations and Peter couldn't get any for his car or his scooter.  Saturday was mostly overcast and we started off at Hall Bends.  The Morgans competed in the sidecar events, so they had to carry a passenger.  The bikes were faster off the line but the Morgans turned in faster lap times.  Pic no. 2 is a Moto Morini V-twin; no. 4 is a Matchless; no. 5 the same Morgan; no. 6 a Triumph twin, one of the few non-BMW K-series sidecar combos.  In the last pic a geezer gets a push back to the pits after shunting his combo.  The day saw a lot of red flags but no serious injuries.  Cadwell as ever a magical location for bike fans and families alike. 

 

Lakenheath Fen

 Ann's RPS visit to RSPB Lakenheath Fen turned up four Hobbies, probably juveniles from their lack of orange 'trousers', industriously purging the skies of the shoals of dragonflies.  One I snapped was a Sparrowhawk.  I also saw Bearded Reedlings in the wild for the first time in many years.  The spider is Araneus marmora [no common English name].  I saw not one single Marsh Harrier, and even the post in Joist Fen was empty of its customary Cormorant.