Not old news yet, but certainly disturbing news.

I am thinking about the air crash in France where in now transpires that one hundred and fifty innocents were slaughtered by a mentally unstable co pilot, who wished to "make a name for himself"  What a tragedy, but one which now has caused major headaches for airlines who can no longer one pilot to remain at the controls alone.   In this instance it could have been avoided had the pilot been able to gain access to the cockpit, however, measures put in place to combat aircraft hijacking proved effective, but fatal for those on board.
We now have aircraft which can land without anyone at the controls, but so far no one has officially sanctioned unmanned aircraft.
Prior to this latest revelation about the co pilot, I had joined the conspiracy theorists who have been debating about the previous air crashes, missing Malaysian plane, etc.,  and it reminded me on one of the plots in an earlier James Bond movie where groups of young ladies were brainwashed at a clinic in Switzerland, then became "sleepers" until awakened to commit murders.   Now just imagine if this has happened to a number of airline pilots !!!! , might just have an adverse effect on air passenger numbers.    Take this a stage further,  was the Captain of the Concordia really showing off to some of his lady passengers ?    Now I know why train drivers go through such a rigorous training,  even bus drivers,  the mind boggles -  just what form and for what insane reason will the next major tragedy occur - just feeding ideas to the barmy.

Different topic,   well done Heart of Midlothian for their promotion to the Premier League,  and today they had yet another win, extending their unbeaten run of games.     Someone suggested that we should let Hearts play Iceland tomorrow instead of Scotland -  But, I am sure Scotland will not let down the Tartan Army.  Met one of their members last night William Wood at Loanhead, whose father was my first Sgt. when I came back to Scotland, and who is also now a friend of Jim Wilkie, owner of Wilkie's Bar, Leith, who we know well and have travelled abroad with..

Down at Duns today to see Andrew Mimms at Border Bikes very busy, and who is going to fit a new fuel pump on the Steed of Steel, which hopefully will be back on the road later in the week, which means I might just be able to make the Easter egg run to the children's hospice at Robin's House, Balloch, next weekend.    BUT - watch this space to get details of a new stable mate for the Steed.

Met one of the "Widow's Sons"  last night at the RA Loanhead, Honour Concorde and Fidelity, who has just got himself a Harley Davidson trike, and will be accompanied by his dog, complete with flying jacket and goggles (need to wait for a photo).  Sad to hear that member Bob McCulley is very poorly in the Marie Curie Hospice, but fighting hard against his illness - hang in there Bob.

Lots of interest in the doggie weekend at the Mercat Grill on 23 / 24/ 25th April,  tried to get help from the K9 Dept but the dog handler I was talking to is away on holiday.

Just wondering if the SRU would send Mrs B. one of their "wooden spoons" which she could then use to make extra special meringues.

Currently consuming a nice bottle of Kumala Eternal Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz,   sadly I do not have a second one hand as Mrs B used it to poach pears a couple of nights ago!!!  did I not tell her off,  now living in fear and afraid to go to sleep first at night.   Please keep this in mind in case my name appears in the Evening News.