About two months or so, before visiting Lourdes, I was involved in making a film to be used in the training of fighter pilots for the Royal Navy. This took place in what was RNAS Ford ( HMS Peregrine ) near Arundel, Sussex. ( Now HM Prison, Ford ) Some of you may know the place well or even have friends whom you visit there ? One morning whilst bending over a box of lenses & other items on the tarmac, a rather absent-minded member of the crew, standing beside me, was attracted by the arrival of a beautiful new Scimitar aircraft & walked towards it as it prepared to land, allowing a tripod which he had been holding to fall over, the heavy metal panning section making contact with the top of my head.
Quite dazed & in pain, I struggled to my feet, staggered around for a few moments, put my hands to my head, then wished I hadn't, suddenly realising how wet they had become ! People came running, an ambulance appeared & I was taken to the Sick Bay. There they washed & shaved the appropriate area, eventually finding a really large sticking-plaster which they carefully pressed into position. That was it. Hence the Hole ! Alas, nothing more mysterious than that.
I was later informed it was known as a depressed fracture, but it didn't stop me clambering ( clutching camera ) into a Hawker Hunter early the next morning for a sea-level flight around the Isle- of Wight ,' just as the sun was rising.' Fab !!
Lourdes. Guy collects my prescription - " I can't swallow these " looking at what I see as a bag of weird- looking foreign pills. Even if I am given something the size of a Paracetamol tablet, I have to break it in half, otherwise it won't go down. Although no one believes me, I'm sure I have a little ledge about half-way down my throat. I demand he visits the kitchen, which is just beneath my bedroom, take the pills with him & get the staff to cut them up, or come back with a sharp knife & I'll do it. He's away for ages. I hear sounds as if they are having a party, clinking glasses & laughter. Such laughter too - must be something very funny to arouse so much mirth. Eventually he does return, his face still creased with laughter. " What on earth has been going on down there ? All I can hear is the sound of the kitchen staff laughing their heads off & falling about as if they've encountered something terribly funny."
" They have " says he, " it's the pills, they're not to be awallowed, you insert them in the other end."
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Quite dazed & in pain, I struggled to my feet, staggered around for a few moments, put my hands to my head, then wished I hadn't, suddenly realising how wet they had become ! People came running, an ambulance appeared & I was taken to the Sick Bay. There they washed & shaved the appropriate area, eventually finding a really large sticking-plaster which they carefully pressed into position. That was it. Hence the Hole ! Alas, nothing more mysterious than that.
I was later informed it was known as a depressed fracture, but it didn't stop me clambering ( clutching camera ) into a Hawker Hunter early the next morning for a sea-level flight around the Isle- of Wight ,' just as the sun was rising.' Fab !!
Lourdes. Guy collects my prescription - " I can't swallow these " looking at what I see as a bag of weird- looking foreign pills. Even if I am given something the size of a Paracetamol tablet, I have to break it in half, otherwise it won't go down. Although no one believes me, I'm sure I have a little ledge about half-way down my throat. I demand he visits the kitchen, which is just beneath my bedroom, take the pills with him & get the staff to cut them up, or come back with a sharp knife & I'll do it. He's away for ages. I hear sounds as if they are having a party, clinking glasses & laughter. Such laughter too - must be something very funny to arouse so much mirth. Eventually he does return, his face still creased with laughter. " What on earth has been going on down there ? All I can hear is the sound of the kitchen staff laughing their heads off & falling about as if they've encountered something terribly funny."
" They have " says he, " it's the pills, they're not to be awallowed, you insert them in the other end."
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