I am fortunate enough to have worked in environments where no two days are the same and most days present a new challenge.  I refer to both aviation and to the business of being a musician. 

Providing travel for the many and music for the discerning few has given me immense pleasure and a vast store of material.  I am also blessed by having some very eccentric ancestors so it seems only fair that I should offer the anecdotes contained herein in printed form.

I should perhaps explain that the Letters to the CEO, (Mr McBride) a mythical executive of a mythical airline from a mythical Captain are a figment of my imagination.  They represent, in any case a watered-down version of the sort of activities that aircrew of a previous generation (mine) got up to before flying became a more serious matter.