Still on the look out for more lighthearted stories today we heard about the cat that stormed the cockpit of a passenger airliner forcing the pilot into an emergency landing!
We’ve all heard about aircraft being hijacked but now comes news from the Middle East of a passenger aircraft en route from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum to Doha in Qatar, being forced to return Khartoum for an emergency landing after chaos ensued in the cockpit when the captain was attacked by an out of control, and very angry cat.
It’s unknown just how the cat came to be on board but it’s been assumed that it must have sneaked aboard during routine cleaning or maintenance.
Perhaps it didn’t like the airline food or maybe the movie was not to its taste, but either way the Sudanese Tarco flight had already been in the air for about 30 minutes when the enraged feline, suddenly put in an unwelcome appearance.
Of course it’s just possible it wanted someone to put money in the kitty, or maybe it was unable to make it clear that it wanted the pilot to divert to the nearby Somalian capital, Mogadishu!
But I guess we’ll never know.
In the second hour I was joined by Margaret Mills for her regular book club feature.
The choice this time was “AN ORDINARY LIFE” by AMANDA PROWSE.
The book revolves around the life of 94 year old Molly Collway.
She has promised herself that she would explain the actions in her life to someone very important to her, but as she starts writing this important letter on Christmas Eve 2019 in her beloved cottage, she suffers a stroke and fall.
Unable to speak and now trapped in a useless body, she finds herself lying alone on a hospital trolley imagining what is now to become of her.
Indeed up to this point her life has been anything but ordinary.
In 1940’s war torn London as an 18-year old working as a translator at the Ministry of Information she meets the love of her life and before long finds herself involved in a daring undercover mission with the French Resistance.
Now she’s cursing her inability to finish the note she had started, wishing nothing more than to place it in the hand of the boy who had shaped her whole life. She needed to tell him of her history. Her story, her ordinary life, and thus his story, the full truth he’d never known but that she’d promised, finally, to tell him. The truth that now he might never know.
Now lying in the hospital she can’t escape the memories of what she lost all those years ago. But she is not as alone as she thinks.
Listen here to what Margaret thought about this book: –
If this is the sort of book you think you’d enjoy here are the details you need – “An Ordinary Life” by Amanda Prowse (2021, published by Lake Union Publishing) paperback £7.00 (from Amazon, £11 from WH Smith), Kindle £1.99 (Amazon), audio CD £13.00 (Amazon).
I’ll see you once again tomorrow,
Scott
