As a further aside, the famous and much decorated Mr 'H' - who travels down the back in the chinny - was the guest of honour at the Gulf War Jaguar pilots annual dinner at the RAF Club this year
Actually, it was last year, but he did turn up, which is more than can be said for some of our other very high-ranking invited guests in recent years.
It will come as no surprise to you that having arrived early with Mrs "E", he joined us in the pub on Old Park Lane to watch the rugby and get gubbed, did a speed change into drinking suit with medals, gave a fantastic 50-minute after-dinner presentation and drank more than anyone, yet managed to stay lucid and presentable until most of us shuffled off to bed, leaving him with a semiconscious group of KOS doing their best to match him in sensible conversation. And failing... Top bloke.