Hello, possums! Well, spring is here, with lengthening days, warmer temperatures and the famous Western Australian wildflowers blooming in profusion! I've got several species of native orchid flowering on the property and I'm having fun doing my usual spot of macro photography. Any day now, the silly season will begin and I'll start getting young birds admitted to the hospital. In the meantime, let's give Bradbury's Jar a jolly good shake and see what falls out... aha! Oh... it's a bit sticky... never mind. This week's prompt is: Syrup.

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Everybody else found it quite amusing

Yay team! And for Keyop getting some vindication.

Yup. The thing with gas turbines is that while they are incredibly powerful (and relatively simple, in theory) they are also relatively fragile and when things go wrong, they tend to go very, very wrong, very, very quickly. When I did my Basic Gas Turbines course, the retired aircraft engineer who facilitated it had a saying, " - And ptht! You'll go for a Burton!" No-one was ever game to ask Reg exactly what a Burton was, but it was implied that whatever it was, it was pretty dire. We learned in detail exactly how we might trigger one (as student pilots, Reg considered us the lowest form of life on the aeronautical food chain) and his grim descriptions of bits of burning turbine blade being spewed out of the back of a jet engine at 35,000 feet have remained with me to this day. In Reg-speak, Keyop sent Zoltar's turbine for a Burton.

Me being me I had to take a look: gone for a Burton

Thanks, ChrisW! That makes sense, given Reg's vintage.