The lawnmower e mail never made it to the speech. It's deep in the PPRuNe archives now, and locked.
'Right, I'm F***ing pissed off with your lawnmower....'
Read on...
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...e-karachi.html
A bit further into the thread is the
Fillet Steak au Roquefort/Spike Milligan story
and the
England v Portugal/Missing person story
neither of which made it into the speech, either
PS. I'm divorced, the dog is dead...but the lawnmower is still going strong