A sign of things to come

Electricity blackouts are a normal thing in SA, certain areas know what time and they can it can go off for 2 to 4 hours (this issue may be with the UK in 2022/23 if Putin and the Unions keep going)

South Africa Military museum.

so why didn’t the website or the guy at the gate taking the money did not warn us that the electricity goes of for two hours starting at 12pm, that is in ten minutes’ time, at which point they will kick us out of the best exhibits.

why.. #TIA ( this is Africa)

well I got them back because they said no photos in the main halls ( no idea why, maybe military secrets?) but I snapped of a few before the blackout.

The ME262 was a surprise, they are a rare bird, and even rarer is this two-seater trainer one of only fifteen ever made and the only surviving example, built to cross-train the fighter pilots from piston engines to jet engines.

This version was converted with radar ( big aerials on the front) so it could try and chase the Mosquitto night fighters that were attacking Berlin at the end of the war.

There was a spitfire in the forbidden hall and I had to take a picture, up in the rafters above was a Mosquitto, which is one of my favorite aircraft, I think better looking than the Spitfire.

Me109 that ran out of fuel over Essex, it was brought to SA as part of a traveling museum and ended up staying in the Museum, they also have a tidy version in the forbidden hall.

This is a Churchill tank, it swa action all the way across Europe in the war, it was upgraded and sent to many places from France to Italy .

Milly’s great uncle George served with the Scots Guards he drove one of these all the way from D-day landings to Berlin, I remember sitting with him while we had lunch when he was in his 80’s just before he died and the stories he told of those years where incrdible, from his evacuation at Dunkirk to his demob after WW2 ended.

Amazing how much Russian kit is in here.

another favorite of mine, is the Buccaneer, mainly because of my days on RAF bases when these were still a current RAF jet.

⚧️ Ignore the ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’ jet in the background ⚧️

A funny thing happened at the museum..

we bumped into another couple, The wife looked fully bored, just like mine, I mentioned that this is the price she has to pay for the shopping malls, Milly laughed but then I realised

QEI now have a grandson.

No more being told that little girls don’t want boring cars and trucks and planes and tanks, so there will be no ‘my little pony’ and Disney princess stuff,

Max and I can go to all the military stuff and he will love it.

There was a lot of eye rolling from a certain Millicent.

and really over the last 26 years, I still did get a fair amount of tomboy stuff into my daughter’s life, look how they turned out. 😉