wallflower? then do date Doris
Get up off that seat by the wall, chrisal, and dance with Doris!
You seem to be across the handbooks but are you across all the amendments and modifications? This is where Doris can be of particular value inasmuch as they should have the whole kit and caboodle somewhere. If there was a mod resulting from goodness knows what in Muscat or Gan, or a procedural revision it will be there. Particularly Avons.
And you get the most delightful surprises. I was confronted one day with an original document and there was my Dad's signature on the amendments list. Clearly written in blue-black ink with his Parker pen. Choke. You may discover also your own siggy or handwritten note and that will conjure up memories.
Doris lets you take in a laptop and they photocopy for you unless to do so would damage an original.
Terrific pot of tea in the museum canteen where sadly they have travestied the atmosphere in privatisation. The original decor represented the airmen's NAAFI so evocatively many's an old-timer remarked on it. How can they do this? You used to walk from a Hall packed with aircraft you or your Dad flew/knew into a fifties/sixties style canteen redolent of jam doughnuts and egg banjoes. The tea is better. Milk and sugar? Yuk.
Canopus XS235. Ahhhh. Where did it all go wrong?