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@bluebirdk7 Not something you want to get wrong!

Fantastic! We got to Bute & found the fuel we'd ordered had the wrong s/g. A quick call to our pals in aerospace confirmed it was unsuitable so our old mate Peter Roper-Hall was tasked with finding those drums. To this day he's known as (Premium) Paraffin Pete. Such is teamwork.

@AjScotspine @bluebirdk7 The chemist in me Says thank you

@bluebirdk7 @HatsPeriod One of the very drums used @ Loch Fad 🙂

We can always put it right. It's actually rather fun watching them flounder. They don't even have the cash now, they've squandered it on nothing. It's about time the Charities Commission did a deep dive on this.

@bluebirdk7 I thought that was display only And they’d commission a proper one, for doing the event with safety in mind

There's this terrible abortion of a thing. They've tried to tidy it up a bit since but it's barely any good for display at a hundred yards. You'd never try to run the boat with it. youtu.be/oxQZydtjcB0

@bluebirdk7 No canopy! The driver will get rather wet 🤦‍♀️

There's just no time to operate safely now. This would've needed crew training & systems checking to commence months ago & is there a sign of a safe canopy yet?

@bluebirdk7 I never realised that it was that close To the old heaters fuel!

@HatsPeriod It's the same stuff. Just a few additives & and audit trail from the refinery & it becomes jetfuel.

@bluebirdk7 That’s interesting Had to ‘giggle’ at paraffin It always reminds me of the old heater my mother used in bathroom during the cold winter 1962(?) The smell stayed with me

@HatsPeriod We used about 15 galls for a 1.5 mile run. It was about £400 for a 45 gall drum at the time. It has to be either Avtur or premium paraffin (same thing really)

Came across a flock of Morris Minors. Beautiful.

#countryfile finally the #Dairy industry gets a mention the price of #milk is dire 28/32 per litre ! When it costs 42p to produce !!

BBC News - Rare gown dating back to 1600s to go on display at Hardwick Hall - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This 1880s bonnet by Mme Pouyanne gathers together silk bows, metallic lace, and floral ornament into a carefully composed confection. Bonnets could be simple—or, like this, wonderfully elaborate. See more in the VFG Hat Resource: vintagefashionguild.org/resources/item… 📷 LACMA

@bluebirdk7 2 weeks tomorrow!!

They wanted to show us that they can do it too. 😂

An early 19th century sleeve is always a winner in my opinion. The construction often includes some clever confection of net and silk, all finished with some lovely piped seams. This pale blue, late #1810s @Fashion_Museum #fashionhistory

@maskcempt @otboae @bluebirdk7 My daughter and I were comparing BBk7 to the Vulcan this week…. Both great projects But very different from modern H&S requirements and need to be treated caringly and carefully

@otboae @bluebirdk7 I think something similar happened with the Avro Vulcan several years back. a controversial (non PC) project that was seemed out of place. It sort of couldn’t happen again.

@bluebirdk7 Bluebird K7 was built in the craft traditions of the 1950s. It was restored as heritage, meticulously copied from OEM sources. The rebuilt and restored K7 was delivered into the post-industrial brand management world of tourism, event management etc. Different world.

@bluebirdk7 You think the boat would be back at base By now! And logistics of managing needs of public coming being sorted Rather than beer and t-shirts and watching social media incase someone Is noticing things!

They watch everything we do. They even posted some smoke & mirrors weasel words earlier in an attempt to deny having damaged the boat, but they can't get out of that one. We have the pics. Welcome to the Ruskin Museum. 😂

@bluebirdk7 They’re watching this feed as I said nothing on Facebook I’m just a person who’s got family members interesting in bluebird No threat to them! For a museum curators to be that paranoid is very odd, and I’ve worked with many heritage sites

They invariably block anyone who dares criticise them or suggest that Bluebird Project may be right. Such rampant paranoia is a very dangerous precedent. They'll make bad decisions because of it.

@bluebirdk7 They’re tetchy as they’ve blocked me on Facebook And shortly followed my business page, They must be watching this chat to see that as I’d never commented on their Facebook account at all!

With most of their project cancelled or failed fortunes squandered, the village furious & only days to go, the best reassuring content they can offer is a bottle of beer? Doesn't bode well.

@SayersTrish @moonvalley11 @DaveKent101 🤣🤣🤣

@moonvalley11 @DaveKent101 It is, but I noticed today my local supermarket is running low on popcorn 😳

Phillip Hermer has been reported to two different bodies. Nigel Farage has reported him to the HoL Standards Commission as a threat to national security. Nick Timothy has reported Hermer to the Bar Standards Board, saying that Hermer’s actions against UK soldiers “may constitute serious professional misconduct” Could Hermer be gone before Starmer?🤔

CYNICAL TRICKS! Lord Falconer has prevented debate on key amendments on the assisted suicide Bill tomorrow by tabling a cynical motion, which will force Peers instead to debate the scrutiny of the Bill so far in the House of Lords. 🧵1/

Little Stopped Mid-Sentence. She Cited National Security. The Question Is Why. There is a moment in Thursday's committee testimony that has received almost no attention. It lasted perhaps ten seconds. It may be the most important thing said in any parliamentary hearing since this affair began. Cat Little, the most senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office, was asked a direct question by Dame Emily Thornberry. Was there anything in the security vetting that was not in the due diligence report? Little began to answer. She got four words in. "I don't think I can, without revealing..." She stopped. She did not finish the sentence. Thornberry pressed her immediately. Was there something in the vetting that was different, more worrying, of more impact than the due diligence? Little paused. She said she wanted to get this right. She said she did not want to make things harder than they already were for the national security system. Then she retreated into carefully constructed language about the vetting potentially containing more information by the nature of the exercise. That exchange has been treated in most of the coverage as a non-answer. It was not a non-answer. It was a partial answer that stopped precisely at the point where disclosure would have become dangerous. Consider what is already in the public domain. The due diligence report flagged Mandelson's connections to Russian missile defence infrastructure, his Chinese state enterprise links, and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. All of that is documented, reported and on the parliamentary record. None of it required Little to stop herself mid-sentence. None of it required a reference to the national security system. Those concerns are already public. Whatever Little was protecting is something else. The specific language she used is the key. She did not say she could not discuss the vetting for reasons of process or confidentiality, the standard civil service deflection. She said she did not want to make things harder than they already were for the national security system. That is a specific and meaningful distinction. It describes information whose disclosure would cause active harm to national security, not merely information that is procedurally confidential. The Russia and China connections are already public. The Epstein dimension is already public. The UKSV recommendation to deny clearance is already public. Whatever stopped Cat Little mid-sentence in that committee room is none of those things. It is something beyond them. Something that has not surfaced. Something that a Cabinet Office permanent secretary judged, in real time, was too sensitive to discuss even in the controlled environment of a parliamentary hearing. Mandelson was granted Strap Three clearance. That is the highest level available to the Foreign Office. It gives access to intelligence that could endanger sources if leaked. He was granted that clearance after the security services had recommended against it. He was granted it by an official operating under what Robbins described as constant pressure from Downing Street. And he was granted it despite whatever it is that Cat Little would not say in open committee. The country has been told the vetting concerns related to Russia and China. Cat Little's unfinished sentence suggests that may not be the complete picture. The question of what was in that file, beyond what has been disclosed, is now the most important unanswered question in British politics. But nobody in the room pushed hard enough to find out why. "Mandelson was granted Strap Three clearance. That is the highest level available to the Foreign Office."