If anyone is dishing out ties, can I have one please? Firq-Saiq four times (sorry that's all - do I qualify?) with SOAF flying Beavers. Also vaguely remember Muscat-Nizwah-Muscat (gravel strip days - at both, that is) and lunch plus swim in the stream fed pool at the Nizwah OM. Happy days of just about post Empire (please, no leftie recriminations of what bast*rds we were suppose to have been!).