I (David) am in Geneva on a self funded IATA course in my first steps to obtain a Diploma in Safety Management in Civil Aviation. Course 1 of 4: Human Factors in Civil Aviation. Luckily, I worked with Cutya, Marcus and Big Drew, to name but a few (there were many more), who gave me as sound an understanding of [sub] Human Factors as any 21 year old could want. So, 26 years later (that sounds terrifying) I am putting my money where my - self confessed safety expert - mouth is. Do what I say not what I did two and a half decades ago! Actually, I reckon I am the perfect person for the job; really: what could go wrong, go WrOnrrg, Gooo ruunndg. Anyway, you get my weak joke; Anyway, listening to the cow-bells as I sit in my dingy little office where a stingy ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between Mont Blanc and 05/23, [Clancy of the Overflow for anyone not an Antipodean]..

"And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar'! What! Why did I say that?

It's more than I can bear....Now the reason is that
Camilla and the kids have gone to London roving,
to see Alice, the Dormous, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare.

And in place of champagne popping, I can hear the fiendish timeliness
Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street,
And the languages uninviting from the gutter children, now that sounded curious,
Comes fitfully and faintly like the Alpine cow-bells in the heat.

Meanwhile back in London:

The hurrying people daunt me, their pallid faces and nose picks
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
Catching a 15 euro Ryanair return would have knocked Banjo for six,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

Attached is the most famous video put together by Irish Guerins, Clancy of the Overflow...starring Macayle and Dylan.

And, shortly an IATA promo video of me in the classroom in Switzerland.

But I doubt they'd suit the office, living a dream, a vision splendid is all they know!!
And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with C M and D but only flying out of Heathrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!1


Thanks to Fiona Richard Noa and Hanan for the invite to such an exiting birthday party.


Here is the blurb from the Dorchester:

Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, The Dorchester will be
offering a special afternoon tea in conjunction with English National
Ballet and will be donating £4 for every guest at the Mad Hatter’s Tea
Party to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Dancers from
English National Ballet dressed as some of the favourite characters from
the Alice in Wonderland, including the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the
Dormouse and Alice herself, will be found among the specially created
decorations and flower displays while the award-winning afternoon tea is
served.

Each child who attends the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party will receive a goody
bag. Meanwhile adults will be able to sit back and enjoy the
entertainment with a glass of Champagne, delicious savoury finger
sandwiches, homemade scones and a selection of indulgent cakes and
pastries.

Composed by David, after cooking ravioli in the kettle in the Ram*da because his HR department can't afford 56AUD a night for food, let alone the hotel, plane tickets, annual leave (did I mention my friends in the Irish Aviation Authority wouldn't even give me days off to attend - speaking of answers coming directed in a writing unexpected). But they changed their reasons three times in the process. [and now for the PUNCH line..............]

But next December we'll go a-droving "a party pooper" and eat Pavlova good-oh!!!!

Not my best work.

DG Banjo Guerin