Many thanks for all your kind words, fellow PPRuNers!
No plans to fly for the airlines - unless Sir Richard B wants me to fly his Concordes! Now that would be a rewarding job!
Shall be doing a fair bit of GA - hopefully I'll take you up on that beer and curry at Dunkeswell, Yakkers - plus a bit of work now and again for a non-RAF tanker programme.......and lots of sloth!!