So I was on a plane a couple of weeks ago that had a camera facing down that you could watch on the screen. So here’s Zeebrugge from 35,000 feet

Another day of @gmtgames.bsky.social Pendragon. Yesterdays went down to the last Epoch round when the Civitates won on a draw with the Saxons #Wargames

#wargaming All set up ready to start Compass Games Stellar Horizons 2. It takes about 2 1/2 days to play to completion

#NavalHistory This is part of the Pipeline Under the Ocean (PLUTO) as it passes through Shanklin Chine on its way to the pumping station on the seafront there.

Pilots eye view of Heathrow today

Thankfully we're back into this account, just in time to invite applications for Sept start, & our 10 year anniversary! Join us for a distance-learning MA, on our highly ranked course for student satisfaction! www.port.ac.uk/study/course...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

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War canoe spotted yesterday entering Pompey

#wargaming. So today we’re taking @gmtgames.bsky.social Congress of Vienna out for a spin

#Wargaming. This evening we will be starting @gmtgames.bsky.social Holland 44 on Vassal

Say on the front door step drinking tea and saw the first Spitfire of the season. Which was nice

Portsmouth in the wake of the Isle of Wight ferry

RNs new UAV. Are You Being Served?

#Wargaming I was this many days old when I found out Harpoon 97 is available on Steam

#NavalHistory Attention on the upper deck, face after and salute. Sunset on HMS Warrior

#NavalHistory Working at a site today had this rather lovely model of HMS Intrepid L11

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

#boardwargames This weekend we are playing OSG’s Napoleon’s Las Gamble with the Road to Brussels expansion. It will be a 3 player game with me as the eponymous hero

Can we board and seize Russian tankers now? Asking for a friend

That was a bloody good stew even if I say so myself

This is how I access Bluesky

I see your stupid and raise you Gallipoli

A female cleaner offered me a cuddle in the eject chamber of a (n empty) Polaris missile tube one cold January. I declined the offer

House!

Parental - Career soldier, 1916 to 1949. Western Front to Burma via Ireland Maternal - Car mechanic with a trip to France in 1939 care of the BEF and PoW from 1940 to 45 before going back to being a mechanic

My favourite write up (of me) was on Petty Officer’s Leadership Course - Standard of dress rose steadily to satisfactory

Today I found out that mini eggs come in 1KG bags

Why have I never watched The Chief (no, not that one) before?

Oh smeg! I've just hear Rob Grant has died

It’s a tough life being an IT contractor

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