There are many unanswered questions surrounding the great Heydon Bridge underwater rescue, most particularly how, if Mick got his door open (also how?) Fallon didn’t get properly drowned before they remembered her.
I was wondering if the diligent and intrepid Janie family, who added so much to our appreciation of the manoeuvres required for Stabnight to have been the (limited) success that it was, were considering staging a second educational reenactment. With due regard to safety, of course. Having myself conducted an exhaustive risk assessment, I shall be taking charge of that vodka until further notice. Dangerous stuff, vodka.
This is an absolutely fab idea! Mr Janie has recently purchased the very device for smashing the window if you are trapped in a car in water, so I will ask the family - Miss Janie is visiting soon - if they will agree to an enactment.
No probs persuading them, I’m sure, don’t you think? Really?
Will report back shortly. Or not. Send help if you don’t hear from us by …
It is important that experimental results be replicable if the conclusions are to be valid, so I shall be conducting parallel research involving a foot spa and a G&T
Simulating trains shunting in the Didcot yard can be easily achieved by putting the mic under an old cast-iron bath and rolling marbles down from the head end towards the plug’ole.
I just mention this not because it is even slightly relevant but because it is Fun.