Gentlemen and Ladies of the LML.

Allow me to extend to one and all Christmas greetings from Up Over – or as you call it, Down Under.

Yep! Merry Christmas and Happy flying New Year in 2007.

As you probably don’t know, we here in Up Over are running out of water, and fires are burning up the southern part of the continent with 700,000 hectares (that’s a Euro measurement for something) razed so far. The water just flows downhill to the North. The earth being an oblate spheroid confirms this theory, as I am sure Gra(e)yhawk will attest, as well as icebergs from Antarctica.

Just as well Bill and Sue are still a while away from flying the new IV out.

Of course, a Euro is really a species of kangaroo, which is why we went metric thirty odd years ago.

Oh, and would you mind asking Hanoi Jane to not visit here again. I am tired of the exhausting repetitive replays of her media interviews displaying her pretentious concern for the former inmates of the Hanoi Hilton. It tends to prevent me from flying my Lancair for a couple of weeks due to hypertension.

Cheers for 2006.

Dom Crain

VH-CZJ