On 5 March I’m giving a talk on Bomber Command “gardening” operations at the International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln, on my award-winning research & my book, The Invisible Campaign. Expect plenty of audience participation! Ticket includes dinner⬇️ internationalbcc.co.uk/about-ibcc/n...

Sat at a Costa having coffee and this car came to join us

What a bloody awful place Heathrow is

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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover

Probably behind a paywall but what happened to GIUK? Greatest threat to Britain comes from High North, minister warns www.thetimes.com/article/7552...

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I’d forgotten how much fun Boston Legal is

this is who runs this account

Sitting on watch in the Missile Compartment of HMS Resolution somewhere where the oggin is cold: MC Patrol: Chief, what's a pun? Me: It's a play on words Him: Don't all plays have words? Me: Go do some rounds. Now.

Four fictional characters who would definitely defect to Reform

Someone has discovered War Plan Red an decided that means the US was never a real friend of Canada. Who wants to tell them about the other Rainbow Plans?

@gmtgames.bsky.social Mr President is out on early access on Steam. I have never won a game of the cardboard version

A River class patrol boat in Western Approaches paint as seen for the Wightlink ferry

Just down the road from Hinton Ampner is this tiny 13th C church. A memorial to one of Wellington’s commissaries. Capper was instrumental in the development of the tank. And Gunner Fremantle, someone’s husband and father

Snow drops and Mistletoe at Hinton Ampner @nationaltrust.org.uk

Went to the cinema last night for the extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring. It’s Two Towers tonight and Return of the King tomorrow

I got home this evening and discovered I’d been wearing my boxers back to front all day. I ask for the press to respect my family’s privacy at this difficult time

I’m on a submarine! With instructions on how to use the submerged signal ejector

Post a game you remember playing that no one else remembers Mike Singleton’s Lords of Midnight on the speccy

Laughs in board wargamer

Does anyone know what kind of bird this is? #birds

They come in 8s?

The view from the top of Mottistone Down today #IsleofWight

#HistBookChat Diving into this. I may be gone some time

January 2026... #Archaeology 🏺

Poppet in her day bed #cats

#boardwargames Tonight I shall be setting out on a campaign game of Stalingrad 42 from @gmtgames.bsky.social

#HistBookChat I am really enjoying this. More than a simple bio its a smorgasbord of history, architecture, muddy fields and dual carriageways. Recommended

I ate all the chocolate peanuts and now I feel sick

#USA You guys need to get your shit into one sock. And yes I love what you and Western Europe stand for. Or used to

#HappyNewYear Dinosaurs on the ceiling

I’m Queen Eleanor (no, not that one)

Debasedalloyfinger #MakeAFilmCheaper

#GenDit. Mum had never seen Top Gun Maverick but she liked the original so we’re watching it. Carrier porn is sexy af but not as sexy as

I’m going to eat all the chocolate peanuts

As a newly joined apprentice in the RN we were in workshop. I took a step back from the vice and felt the crunch of toe under my heel Without looking back back I said, “Sorry mate”. I looked over to see a big grumpy chief “I’m not your f@%#$€” mate” was the gruff reply #NavalHistory

Which is the best Disney film ever and why is it still the Jungle Book?

Happy Christmas everyone. Sore a thought for those on patrol on CASD

That’s nothing- after a 4 year apprenticeship in the RN the only skill I learned was how to re-calibrate a dome reducer after rebuilding it

Time for the next bottle today. Happy Christmas everyone

Time for the next bottle of the old red biddy

I listened to Chris Rea’s Road to Hell last night. I forgot this track was on it. I’m not crying, you are youtu.be/T-6FmYqIeps?...

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? Actually with a nun who was an Bletchley Park operative I might be ok

#HistBookChat Just started this. Very interesting so far on Rome’s pre-invasion history with Britain

If you come to the Isle of Wight make sure to stop by the church in Brightstone. It tells the story of heroics and loss on the seas around here as well as commemorating a local VC winner

Today’s periscope pics from the search and attack periscopes of HMS Alliance

The Two Towers. #NavalHistory

The Mk24 Tigerfish. What a PoS that was #NavalHistory