Hear, hear, MPN11. You speak for us all, and very eloquently too, if I may say.
Danny, on the subject of the VV I'll take your word any day of the week, even against such an oracle as Winkle Brown. He did of course tell of his interviewing Herman Goering before his trial at Nuremburg, and agreed with him that the Battle of Britain was merely a draw! Which all goes to show that if you deviate from what you know to what you believe then you are as likely to develop feet of clay as anyone else.