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#spitfire

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Rebecca Banner

#bellringing earlier than usual this week as its a special service as part of Desford's #VEDay80 festival. Lots of invited guests, relatives of people listed on the war memorial and various local dignitaries. Unfortunately the #spitfire flypast due at the end of the service had to cancel due to adverse weather.
We were competing for a while for who could be loudest with a couple of pipers and associated drummers, we could hear them through the open window while we were ringing! Then we took turns, so here's a clip of them taken through the little window in the ringing room while we listened.

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KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀

Heard awhile back about #SpitfireAudio being acquired by #Splice. Not sure what to make of it. #Spitfire libraries are industry standard for big screen scoring and orchestral soundtrack composition. This acquisition is clearly not about that. Generally being shopped by private equity for wholesale acquisition flags financial instability, cash flow or other problems. Whatever this is it’s not about artists or music.
All you can really do is wish them well. Sort of sad as these things go. Survival

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IFR (she/her)

I also drive past this absolute beauty of a #Spitfire (RW388) on my way to work, and can see it from the road lit up in various ways through the floor to ceiling windows.

I think a trip to the #PotteriesMuseum with The Boy may be on the cards very very soon.

ICYDK: we’re big on Spitfires around here because the designer, Reginald Mitchell, was from North Staffs. I have loved them for far longer than I’ve lived in the area though, ever since meeting a WW2 Spitfire pilot when I was 16. A very famous and much decorated one at that. He and my mum were on first name terms. I own three pieces of Spitfire artwork that he dedicated to me and signed - as did two of his colleagues and the artist.

Anyway. I love the Spitfire and am glad to be passing that on to The Boy.

An exhibit featuring a Spitfire, along with a wireframe model nearby. The scene is set in a modern museum space with a projector displaying information on the wall.
A historic Supermarine Spitfire aircraft displayed indoors, featuring a green and brown camouflage paint scheme with roundels and tail markings. The plane, marked "40U" and designated RW388, is positioned on a polished floor with modern architectural elements in
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IFR (she/her)

I pass this sculpture on the way to and from work each day. The Boy (who is 3yo) passes it once a week en route to gymnastics.

This week he was in gymnastics camp two afternoons and when his mum was bringing him home on one of the days he said “Look mummy. It’s a #Spitfire.”

His mummy was very surprised. I was very proud.
I am teaching The Boy the important things and I’m absolutely delighted to discover he’s retaining them.

(During that same journey he told mummy off for skipping a song that he wanted to sing, so she replayed it. He sang along at full volume. It was From Now On, from The Greatest Showman. He knows all the words from when it picks up in the middle. Maybe not quite in the same class as recognising a Spitfire, but I’m insanely happy to see my influence having an impact. 😊)

A full scale sculpture in metal of a Spitfire frame
#JDG#Grandson
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