Now listen here, chaps. Squiffy and Ginger are on a bit of a secret mish tonight. They're taking a Lancaster all the way over to Gerry-land to give the Bosch a spot of what-for in the Ruhr. Chances are there's going to be a bit of flak around, so I want you Smudgy, and you Tommo, to give them plenty of cover.

Now our man Barnes Wallace has come up with a simply splendid way of knocking out some of Europe's most heavily fortified power generating equipment by creating a unique device that bounces on the surface of the water. It's a ball. A Waboba Ball, to give it is full name in the Queen's English.

It's a polyurethane ball with a lycra coating. Now, don't ask what those words mean as they haven't been invented yet, but take it from me they're dashed bouncy. In the future, your great-grandchildren will be simply mad for it, as they say. And they will happily throw away their Frisbees and, to a man, go Waboba. Now, don't ask me what a Frisbee is, as that hasn't been invented yet, either.

Now, when Squiffy and Ginger take the Waboba ball out on to the water, we can expect to see a bit of splashing action. You and I will happily watch in awe and the ball bounces and jolly well keeps on bouncing until ka-boom! Out go the lights in Dusseldorf.

Got that? Rendezvous back here 2100 Zulu. Splendid.

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