Doctor McCoy With Medical Toy

"Toy" Is Perhaps Over-stating It
But then again perhaps not.  The gadget that you see the good Doctor wielding here is a high-speed pneumatic injector -

That, or a light-sabre hilt

     - which Conrad wishes modern medical science will hurry up and invent.  As you already know by now, Conrad is a fearful mewling coward when it comes to injections and the mere thought of a hypodermic syringe is enough to turn him pale.  The painless HSPI is one Star Trek invention that cannot come soon enough.

"Man up, you big baby!  You're worse than Conrad!*"

Poirot - "The Incredible Theft"
Really, now, chaps.  There's a bit of inventive fiddling going on here.  This episode concerns the theft of top secret blueprints for Mayfield's "Kestrel" fighter.
     Here's the Kestrel -

Except it's not!

     No indeed.  This is a later model Spitfire, you can tell by the cannon in the wings and the four-bladed propellor.  A plane plainly** not in existence at the time of the episode.  We aren't given any explicit date or year, although things have probably moved on from 1935 - mentioned in the first episode.  Thomas Mayfield describes the Kestrel's gunfire as being the equivalent of "a two foot window of lead coming at you", which seems to neglect the two 20 mm cannons, rather.
     I didn't guess the identity of the thief in this one and would defy anyone else to do so, either.

A Little Retrospective
Abusing the search function on Blogger again, I tracked down a post from back in the early days of BOOJUM! and here replicate it:

You Know You're Middle-Aged When:

1)  You get childishly excited about your new Kenwood Ice Cream Maker

2)  Your mobile died a week ago and you never noticed

3)  You write your clocking-in times in a diary instead of Outlook

4)  You associate the word "Kindle" with something to be thrown on a fire

5)  You don't recognise any single-name "Celebrities" on the BBC's "Entertainment" page

6)  You do simple arithmetic faster than the youths around you (they don't have the app!)

7)  Your pile of Books To Be Read, stacked one atop the other, is higher than your house

8)  You realise that, sadly, you are never going to make it as an astronaut - ever

9)  Your savings account is actually a scruffy tin pot containing £2,500 in cash

10)  Some kind soul gives up their seat on the tram for you  :(

On the plus side, I am now past my half-century, mostly corpus intact, so yah booh sucks to those who said I'd never reach 30!

RIght, I am off, trembling with glee, to put an ice cream mix into <cont. Page 96>

     I was rather fond of that one but could never remember when I'd posted it.  I should now like to add another point:

11)  You really enjoy watching period detective television programmes and feel ridiculously clever if you guessed the murderer correctly.

"House Of Leaves"
Finally finished this strange book today.  I admit I skimmed over the poems since, and you should realise this by now, Conrad hates poetry.
     I can explain it all.  Zampano made up the whole Navidson Report from whole cloth and it never existed.  Johnny Truant was always off his head on drugs and has a complete mental breakdown because of them.
     Except, near the end, he comes across a band - Liberty Bell - who actually have a copy of the Navidson Report that he'd written, before he'd finished writing it.  They tell him they are always bumping into people who've read it, too.

What Kind Of Home maker Are You?
Asks the wiltingly silly British Gas advert on Twitter.

This is the choice?

     I dunno, do they have an animal that weighs 190 pounds, has white hair and sits on a chair all day drinking tea?  Because that's my kind of animal.

Oh Dear
I has broked teh Interwebz

Sorry.

Now, I was going to add more here about "The Australian Victories in France 1918", except that I think you've suffered my advanced pondering enough.  Maybe tomorrow***.

Matthew Wright
The more of the "60 Seconds" interview I read, the more I like this bloke.  His favourite band are Hawkwind, and he impressed the lead singer Dave Brock so much that he got invited to sing "Spirit of the Age" in front of a sell-out crowd.  

That's Dave on the right.  On the left - it looks a bit like Wrighty.  Could it be?

* Might need to brush up on that bedside manner, Doc.
** Look at that, how clever am I!
*** Definitely tomorrow.