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    Hello, I'm poppet, real name Elaine D Dixon.  I was born and brought up in Ireland,  current location, Leinster Ireland. 

    Hey, Elaine - I'm currently on the move over to Ireland (Shankill, Co. Dublin, to be exact). I don't have a Ferrari, but I will be bringing over a red car ;)

     

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    Cheers

     

    Martin aka Mallard

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    Well - I think it's time to drop my mask (at least a bit) ;)


     


    My name is Martin, I'm a fully qualified archaeologist but work as a freelance translator. I grew up in planes because my father was constantly posted to exotic places by his company and have survived loopings in a helicopter over Barbados, non-closing doors on Ghana Airways back in the seventies, engine failures on transatlantic flights and made it safely back to the ground after taking near-derelict Russian commercial jets... I actually wanted to become a pilot once, but my eyes prevented that dream from coming to fruition.


     


    I've been flightsimming from the good old Microprose days.


     


    In this pic I was a bit pissed to be dragged out from behind my screen to go for a walk.


     


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    My other real hobby is 2CVs. I've had the one in this pic


     


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    for more than 23 years now, but currently also call an Ami 6 my own and had AK 400 vans, Acadianes and Visas in the past. The neat part about the 2CV is that it's a bit like flying an old biplane. Wind hits you from all angles, the windows are hinged half-way up like in some Cessnas and the needle of the speedometer gets stuck sometimes, so that you have to tick it with your finger to get it moving again - like in those old airplane disaster movies where they suddenly realise that they have run out of fuel ;)


     


    By the way - the car is commonly known as "the duck" in German - and that's where my Mallard nick comes from (loads of German 2CV drivers only know me under that name)...


     


    Cheers


     


    Mallard 


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