"There Is No "I" In Team?"

Conrad Would Beg To Differ!
Of course, it depends on how many are in your team, but let us assume we're talking about a team of ten four, not too large so the individuals become infinitesmal cogs in a mammoth machine, not too small so that the spotlight focusses with actinic intensity upon Every Single Person.

A team of ten four

     As you can see, we are using a scene from the British equivalent of John Carpenter's American documentaries - "Shaun of the Dead".  Here we see the beady-eyed team that Shaun has to put up with motivate watch like a hawk.
     Now, call me an unmathematical dunce*, but I count eight eyes there, ten if you include Shaun.
     So.  No "I" in "Team"?  No, but there is in "Meat Pie".
     So - don't go telling porkies!

"From The Earth To The Moon"
Whilst this mini-series was being broadcast, Conrad caught exactly 1 second of it, during a scene of the Apollo astronauts on the Moon.
     Now, however, he's watching the whole series with a sense of wonder and excitement (except Episode 11 which focusses on the wives of the Apollo astronauts).  Great stuff, even if you know how it ends.  It's the journey that matters in this instance, and there's lots of stuff described that I didn't know happened.

The first to mention "hoax" gets fried alive by Uncle Arnie's hex-vision

     Now, this wouldn't be BOOJUM! if I left it there.  Oh no.  No, what I'm wondering is pretty much what I've described during episodes of "Poirot".  With FTETTM the period is from the Sixties to the Seventies, and the cars, clothing, hairstyles, magazines, tins, bottles, toys and haircuts need to be authentic.  You have to exclude what's present in the Nineties, and the Moon has to look realistic.
     And they nail it!

Oh.  I Say Coincidence, Is This Seat Taken?
Let me instruct and illuminate you about the first Hawkwind album that I bought, a very long time ago indeed: "Warrior on the Edge of Time".  Art?

The album unfolded

     I used to hang this on my bedroom wall out of sheer awe at how big and bold it was.  Anyway, the opening lyrics are:

"Lives of great men all remind us

We may make our lives sublime

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints in the sands of time"

     Profound stuff, eh?
     Well, this afternoon I was finishing off "Beyond Band of Brothers", written by Dick Winters, whom you probably recognise from the TV series "Band of Brothers".  You cannot imagine a greater difference between noble upstanding Dick Winters, and Dave Brock, the drugs-hoover guitarist, vocalist and songwriter behind Hawkwind.  Yet Winters quotes:

"Lives of great men all remind us

We may make our lives sublime

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints in the sands of time"

     Which is apparently from Longfellow's poem "Psalm of Life"
     There you go.  We are all better-informed.

TV 21
I have blathered on about this seminal Sixties publication, which very probably got a boost in readership thanks to the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes.  Not so much Gagarin.  
     Anyway, if I may post a screenshot of a 1967 edition, rather than a poor Google capture -

THINGS EXPLODING!

     This is the artwork of Mike Noble, detailed and painstakingly accurate penmanship.  Although, since this was the British comics industry, he never got a credit.
     No reference to Gagarin?  No, but there's no knee-jerk anti-Russian sentiment here either - the bad guys are "Bereznik", a carefully vague Eastern-ish name.
     Which is getting a bit too much Current Affairs, so -

Conrad Makes Recovery From Potentially Fatal Error
Yes by heck, Bob Peck.  I got a big bag of crushed M&M's a couple of weeks ago, and then looked up a recipe for "Confetti Cookies", and finally got around to making them this afternoon.
     Except - I just emptied the flour and sugar and sodium bicarbonate and M&Ms and salt into one big heap, before reading "Cream butter and sugar together".
     Ooops.
     So, I melted the butter, let it cool and added to the dry ingredients before adding in the egg and vanilla flavouring.  Which worked, surprisingly.

Kind of.

     The original recipe promised 18 large biscuits, but as I only had enough Gluten-Free flour for half that, it should have made 6 in the tray above.  "18 large biscuits" - or 1 giant one.
     Actually they don't taste bad.

A Memento From This Morning
Today was a morning sunnier and hotter than many of the supposed summer.  "Summer", if you happen to live here in the UK, is a theoretical season that consists of long daylight hours and lots of sunshine.  Not seen for many years now, it may reappear with Global Warming, which is one reason you see many UK residents out on the doorstep spraying aerosols into the evening air.

Solar Harmonic Convergence, in a way

* Because this is completely accurate