Well the Chemo seems to have gone OK....don't feel too bad as a result but side effects may take a while to kick in, this will be my Wednesday ritual 3 weeks of every month for 6 months.....it's good to have structure in your life.....but. I was walking back to my office at 11:45am, there had been no news flashes about calamitous events, the sun was trying to shine.....I felt good. Imagine my surprise when I walked into my office to find Abe Abercromby waiting for me. " I thought I gave you the day off " I said, Abe grinned and said " Yes, well, Mrs Abercromby wasn't really up for the whole ' day out ' thing. Wednesday is the day she has the pool boy in, she really didn't want to cancel that, strange really as we live in a second floor flat and don't have a pool ". I thought for a moment and asked " Do you have a pool table"?, Abe thought and then said " Well yes, but just one of those little childs ones". " Well, there you go then, he's probably teaching her to play pool " I said. Abe smiled as he said " Of course, how silly of me, oh! I hope you don't mind but I gave those theatre tickets to my twin Brother Ade, it's his wedding anniversary and he's going to make a full black tie night of it....I even lent him my hat...". I wasn't paying attention, the sound of jet engines winding up became a roar as they throttled up for take off, I threw a puzzled look at Abe and he almost caught it as I said " I thought Tailspin had the only scheduled flight today ", Abe became very animated as he said " Yes, yes that's what I came to see you about, I worried about this flight all day yesterday and then " he tapped the side of his head as he continued " I had a brilliant idea. Tailspin gets distracted so easily, he has many boring tasks and checks to do while flying a plane and that's when his mind starts to wander. So I caught him just as he was completing his pre-flights and I got him to do his in-flights before he took off....we know the plane is fine after all the test flights. It took him over 15 minutes to do the checks, so I got him to repeat them,he was a bit quicker, so I got him to do them again, much better!....anyway, now he just has to concentrate on flying in a straight line to the target, with nothing but time on his hands ". I slumped heavily in my chair, " Did he do anything else besides the checks " ? I enquired, Abe thought for a moment and said " Yes, I mean I'm not certain but I think he was drawing lines on an i-pad with a crayon ". As the He-162 / Mistel combination vanished over the tree line I looked at my watch, 11:58am.....my head dipped as I asked " Did you happen to point out to Tailspin that he was now starting out almost an hour late "? Now Abe looked puzzled " No, why, should I have done " ? he asked, I felt ill as I said " Well Tailspins ' check off ' list now reads...Take off, Head North, Arm bomb, Check heading, 12 o'clock....bombs away ".........it was inevitable really I suppose....