Fantome,
..... . seeing you do use the goad now and then...
Well, like all large enterprises (and "Pilot's Brevet" is pretty big now), a prod from time to time does a power of good.
Nothing surprises me from the heartlands of our "Wild Colonial Boys !"
Danny.
PS:
...There were stories current once of POWs locked in cells with a common masonry wall. By tapping on the wall with a boot heel or anything else to hand for the purpose . .. if the two prisoners were skilled morse men they could communicate...
Before I went into the RAF, an office colleague who'd been in Signals speeded-up my Morse with a school ruler balanced over a pencil. Made an excellent double-acting Morse key.
D.