Last night I neglected to make some comments about the longerons. Basically I hate them. They are a real real pain. Prior to yesterday we had spent hours on them. Probably two or three sessions working on them. And they were just not right. Yesterday we probably spent about three hours on the left side to get it to an acceptable state. Three hours. That is a lot of work. Do you want to know the most horrible bit? Well, the thing is that I really could not see us doing the right side one in much less time.

I have not worked out if that is the horrible bit, or this next piece of inforation is. When we actually did the other side it took us about TEN MINUTES to get it to a simialr state. TEN MINUTES!!! Yes, that is good. BUT, that means we wasted about two hours and fifty minutes on the left side. Both sides need adjustment… But that is more just to make them perfect.

Also last night I had another thought on the Harry Potter movie on TV. They normally go to great lengths not to indicate the era that the story is from – be it present day, the eighties, seventies or sixties, or whatever. You can probably get an idea of the vintage by looking at the models of cars on the roads, but generally, cars are cars. One muggle artifact that dates things is when Harry’s uncle places bars on the windows of Harry’s room at home, he uses what appears to be a Black and Decker 12V cordless drill, definitely dating the time to the 21st century.

I am sure that there are other clues in the movie, but that is one that I have picked up on.