X marks the spot




      We're getting a lot of fancy vapour trails today, some are civilian and some are military. Our feeling is that the East to West and vice versa are mostly civilian but those aircraft performing the huge arcs around us at a great height must be military.
      The safe bet is that they are probably our American friends from Mildenhall testing some super bit of spyware and watching us having our morning coffee. As yet I haven't noticed any red laser dots on my cup but I bet they know how many sugar lumps went into the coffee.
      Six hours later, as dusk falls, he's still going round and round; it's a good job the boss has got the turret under camouflage netting.