A cup of 'Jasmine Fairy'

Today we went to York for some last minute shopping ready for our trip to Santorini. Also to have my very belated birthday lunch in my favourite restaurant there. Whenever we go I have a cup of Jasmine Fairy tea. It's one of those where the flower opens after it has been in the pot for a while. I like the way they put it into a glass pot so that you can see the flower opening.

While we were there we came across a display of a replica Hurricane which was 'celebrating' the anniversary of the day when York suffered its worst air raid of the war on 29th April 1942. It was difficult to get a clear view of the aeroplane but I have added it as my extra picture today. It was interesting to read one of the accounts of the day.

The damage could have been much worse but for the intervention of a lone French fighter pilot, 23 year old Pilot Officer Yves Mahé, who was serving with Number 253 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Flying his Hawker Hurricane he was drawn to the light of the blazing City of York. He attacked and shotdown a Heinkel He111 bomber which crashed in flames into the River Ouse that flows through the City. Yves Mahé then targeted a Junkers JU88, but this aircraft along with the rest of the attacking force turned away using the cover of smoke to assist their departure. Yves Mahé’s intervention was in the nick of time, because had the Luftwaffe bombers hit their prime target, the Rowntree Main Factory, which was manufacturing ammunition and high explosives, the results would have been catastrophic.