Kilwhang,
I'm glad that Roy Beavis has been mentioned - what a sense of humour in the face of the enemy! On the occasion of being taken down route to Cyprus for what was his last time out and about he went to Imprest to get some Cyprus pounds for buying.......fruit of course. The Imprest officer was a WRAF pilot officer who (according to Roy) had been in the Air Force ALL DAY. She mentioned to Roy that she thought a Master Engineer should have neater haircut than he had....he agreed, yanked off that duff wig that the medical people had given him, and said that he would take it to the barber's immediately for a trim......cue floods of tears and retreat into back office. But the classic has to be at his funeral, when Nick Nichols looked up as we were leaving the crematorium and saw smoke - "Quick, back on the bus, or Roy will beat us back to the bar". Ah, the days!