Flying to Payam UPDATE

 A few weeks ago I mentioned an aircraft flying to Payam in Iran trying to land at Fat'h airport by mistake. It's happened again, this time with fatal consequences.
 A Boeing 707 of Irans airforce laned on runway 31 left at Fat'h airport instead of runway 30 at Payam. Trouble is 31L is only 1300 feet long (30 is 3659 foot) In the crash that followed 15 people died.  The two airports are just 6 miles apart.

Ford electrics latest update.

 I've mentioned Fords electrical "issues" before. Last week my other rear light bulb went. This time forewarned after last times problems of neither the computer or the manual matching the bulb in use I took the bloody bulb in with me to buy the replacement.  Thats when it got even odder.
 You see the near side rear bulb (harder to get at than the off side) is a different bulb again, this one is the same as the manual, and different to the offside rear bulb.
 Now the normal reason for this situation is a vehicle has had accident repair and a newer part fitted.... except my brother knows the car and it's history, it's not had a bump or light replacement.
 It's come from Ford like this.
 I give up.

Houdinis last secret (tv show)

 The idea of the show is simple. A magician and special effects people study one of Houdinis great illusions and recreate it for tv......  Except....
 The fatal flaw however is for the most part NOBODY knows exactly how Houdini did most of his illusions, and studying the few props left gives little or no clues.
 To make things worse the team then make their own "updated" version of the trick rather than recreate the original exactly.
 Frankly the Houdini name is just bait to get viewers to watch. They also dont explain how the trick is done at the end.

Happy new year and some stars we lost in 2018

 Just wishing you all a Happy New Year. 

 Sadly we lost many stars in 2018, here are just some of them.

Aretha Franklin, Barry Chuckle (barry elliott), Joe Jackson, Leslie Grantham, Ken Dodd, Jim Bowen, June Whitefield, Stephen Hawking, Peter Tompson, Nancy Wilson, Paddy Ashdown, Pete Shelley, Stan Lee, Geoffrey Hayes, Charles Aznavour, Chas Hodges (chas and dave) Burt Reynolds, Ed King (lynyrd skynyrd), Alan Longmuir (bay city rollers), Peter Stringfellow,  Dale Winton, Eric Bristow, Bill Maynard, Delores O'Riordan (cranberries), Bella Emberg, Peter Wyngarde, Billy Graham, Emma Chanbers (vicar of dibley), David Ogden Stiers (mash), Sir Roger Bannister, Trevor Baylis (inventor), R. Lee Ermey, Verne Troyer (austin powers), Margot Kidder, Glynn Edwards (minder/zulu), Kofi Annan, Stefan Karl Stefannson (lazytown), Jacqueline Pearce (blakes7), Peter Benson (heartbeat), Fenella Fielding, Dudley Sutton (lovejoy), Denis Norden, Ray Galton, Sondra Locke, Babs Beverley, George A Cooper (grange hill/corrination street), John Bluthal (vicar of dibley), Bernardo Bertolucci.
 And many many more.

New versions or re-makes

 I'm talking about films and tv here. It seems to be popular to re-make a program or movie. Over recent years we had the Starsky and Hutch movie, a CHIPS movie, a number of others,  various tv series.
 More recently we had the frankly bloody awful Ghostbusters just made to give women more staring roles, same with Oceans 8 (both box office flops).
 However a worse new trend is showing it's ugly head. A remake but changed from the original book (or film) the Classic updated to modern time Shakespeare for example.
 This week we had the ABC murders by the BBC, sadly they changed Hercule Poirot so much his own mother wouldn't recognize him. The problem here is they are changing parts of the story the author though was important and places a lot of emphasis on, like his accent and appearence.
 My question then is at what point does a story stop being the work it's claimed to be? in this case is it fair to call it Agatha Christie ABC murders? Or the ABC murders by the BBC?
 If I rewrite a Harry Potter film, but make Harry a Latvian refugee dwarf, who gets a chance to work at Hogwarts chip shop in Earls court road, and meets Hermione Granger, the barmaid of the Bell and Hammer pub and Ron a city banker. Can I really still call it Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling?  I have my doubts. 
 But the James Bond films do it, the last lot only have the title and Bond  in common with the books.
 That said if the Beeb see this they'll no doubt have someone writing the story as we speak...

Pockets?

 Pockets? Seriously, why are they so bad?
 Pockets have been around for centuries, yet for some reason we still cant get them right.
 I have jackets where the pocket is so badly designed you have to keep it zipped shut or everything falls out. Trousers with pockets so flimsy a small tissue will rip it to pieces.
 Lets be honest we now carry more stuff than ever.
Decades ago people carried they wallet, cigarettes and matches and a house key.  Now we have mobile phone, house keys, car keys, cigarettes or those huge vaping machines, loads of change now we lost pound notes. It's heavier and things like phones are expensive. We have a phone costing a grand in a pocket that cost about 4p and is made of something rejected from a toilet roll company as too flimsy to wipe your arse with. Who though that was a good idea?  Why not use kevlar or something tough for Gods sake.
Twice I've resown a trouser pocket, twice the material is so poor it's just fallen apart again, and these weren't cheap trousers. And when I sew something it's stays sewed. (Ok it's not neat but hell it ain't coming apart)
 So come on tailors, make pockets out of something decent for heavens sake.

Red light trails

 Ok bored the other evening I started playing about with a camera and my Christmas tree lights.
These are the best of the bunch.