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Skin fade, nostril wax (wibble) beard trim & beard dye (just to confirm I’m not vain)🫣face pack, ear flame, hot towels - form a queue ladies 🤢🥴🤣

I’ve just read TV’s Alex Churchill’s Substack - a spot on read for me with my short attention span - I’ll look differently on my Bath Olivers next time I’m having a late night snack! (FYI I put marmite on mine) I know! 😬🤢…. Sign up to Churchies Stack and find out how these two images are linked 🍪💎⬇️

I love a retro build, a kit from back in the day that I couldn’t make my pocket money stretch to …..much A10 prototype goodness 1/72 Matchbox 🩶

Armour modelling Japan 🙏🇯🇵✍️🤖

There’s an old mill by a stream ‘Nellie Dean’ Gertie Gitana during 1914–18 war she was a ‘forces sweetheart’ and often entertained the war wounded. Buried in Wigston Magna the home town of her husband, impresario Don Ross. The lyrics of her most famous song are on her memorial

Just a couple of mill short to buy and do up the grade II listed farm house and out buildings Wigston 🥲

Gertrude Bell, a heroine, visionary a strong woman in WW1 forging new nations in the Middle East! (She really should be a household name!) her life chronicled in ‘Over The Top’ magazine a Great War Group publication 💜🤎🧡

Graphic novel describing the life and times of Admiral Von Spee! Featured in the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social publication ‘Over the Top’ - it’s for younger readers! But shhh - don’t say it’s good for grown ups explaining complicated stories in bite size bits! Drawn by moi!

Exciting times here in the midshires - Salient Points & OTT publications from The Great War Group have hit the door mat! They represent a lot of hard work from a lot of people - superb reads for all history buffs! Check this webo for details!⬇️🙏❤️🖤 www.alexchurchill.co.uk/great-war-gr...

Time is running out! Let us know your pitch for a speaker slot by 5:00pm UK on 23rd! So far some really imaginative interpretations of the brief!

Your old mate will be in Vicar St next week doing his “comedy”. www.ticketmaster.ie/david-odoher...

The golden era of speed! ✍️🙏

Socials for GB News! 🗞️ 📺♥️ this mornings paper reviews from Mike & Dawn!

The achingly picturesque square Uppingham

The Great War Group publication OTT - (it’s for kids …but it’s so good even grown up nerds can read it) this month, features the unbelievable WW1 story of Sgt York the all American hero 🙏✅✍️🇺🇸 sign up, subscribe & get stuck in! Drawn by moi!

Much aircraft illustrations 🙏 (by me)

Available in all good book shops & lots of bad ones too! oh & Amazon- The history of WW1 a lavishly illustrated (by me) kids book - by TV historian Alex Churchill if any little people are working on projects about the conflict, this book is a perfect reference source. Fiercely accurate but fun!

@phlaimeaux.bsky.social DOD as we are same size trouser twins, that guy surely hasn’t heard the cheese board material! Absolute gold - everything is indeed showbiz 🙏♥️

Just to confirm not my cat! He’s taken a shine to me and pops in to visit!

So I think Ai has done me out of a job - thank goodness I’m old! ….

Builds from this autumn Me 262’s 1/72

More nerdery 1/72 scale recent builds using kits from the 70’s reminds of being a kid, I can now afford the models my pocket wouldn’t stretch to! Airfix Mig 17 & a Matchbox Armstrong Whitworth Meteor

That time the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference came to the Midlands! Good times. Here’s to the South West conference this year not so much ‘ay up me duck’ more ‘Alright my lovverrrr’ in Brizzol

Please subscribe to the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social , directed by T.V’s Alex Churchill. ‘cough’ especially the magazine for younger & young at heart readers ‘Over The Top’ featuring graphic novels bringing history to a new audience!

In my capacity as the weird cat guy, just been wounded 🩸🩸🩸with a claws out swipe from Blackbee Panther! 🐆 - I was only going for an ear scruffle! 🫣

New @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social merch for We Have Ways… 📚

Going peak nerd with plastic models! ‘As my dad encouragingly said as a kid, “you’re wasting all your money on silly bleddy Airfix’es” you got that right dad…. Missing the memo on bringing up kids 😸 Recent 1/72 model builds 🙏✅🛩️ in your face dad!

Very proud to be a part of the Great War Group! The only organisation that would have me as a member! Here’s the never before 🫣 told story of Mabel St Clair Stobart - please subscribe to join! 🙏✍️

Season 4 Episode 1 is out! The 85th anniversary of the First transport to Auschwitz. Join Alina, Zane & Chris as we tak about the context of the Camp, invasion, Nazi Terror and the arrests. #history #podcast #ww2 Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/074t... Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Work in progress look out for the exciting graphic novel being published by the Great War Group! @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social The life & times of Ataturk! 🇹🇷🗳️ words by TV’s alexchurchill.bsky.social 📺colouring in by me! 🖍️✏️

Henschel 123, an Airfix retro build, I first made this kit way back in the day, in the 70’s! 🥴. Very nostalgic to build it again.

Narvick The podcast! Junkers 52’s on skis, Alpine soldiers, dive bombers, torpedoes, exploding battleships - please take a listen 👂 👇🏻🙏⚓️💣💥 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6kvMz5… YouTube: youtu.be/MbaQ2SgJUOo Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the��� Acast: open.acast.com/public/streams…

Very much discouraged as a kid to build models - which makes me more determined to build as a so called grown up! Especially Airfix 1/72 Belgium 🇧🇪 x3 colour camo - Fouga Magister

Happy Easter 🐣 . April sunshine & apple blossom 🌸 in the midshires

I love an unusual prototype! FW 189 with the gongola removed & an armour crew compartment installed

Airfix 1/72 Me 109 love the Condor livery!

Check out this podder - everything you wanted to know about the battle of Narvick & are afraid to ask! We have high production values, original & newly composed music & fresh facts! Please check it out! 👉🏻YouTube: youtu.be/iR7fHPlaYWQ

Episode 2 of our third season has dropped! Today we are talking about the initial German invasion of Norway, the loss of the Blucher, the Luftwaffe attacks, the capitulation of Denmark. #history #ww2 #ww2history #podcast #Norway85 #Navalhistory Links below

Arado AR 196 Airfix 1/72 build

And another fantastic speaker has been added to the list for @GreatWarGroup conference in Bristol in October. To book tickets and join fellow Great War enthusiasts at this fabulous event click on this link greatwargroup.com/events/

This book looks blooming awesome!pre order now! Or else! 🙏✍️📗 ….NEWS! @pikegrey1418.bsky.social and I can finally reveal the cover of the book 🤓 Thank you @headofzeus.bsky.social books! Peeorder via geni.us/RingOfFire US readers stay tuned it will be coming out with Pegasus Books a few weeks later

@jerijerod14.bsky.social … so I just watched the ‘Final Countdown’ for the loads of times ….Tomcat’s shooting down Zeros! It’s up there with Battleship & Battle of Britain!

Springs in the air! First day in ages no frost on the windscreen!

As a man very much of the jet age ✈️ the homestead is preserved in the late 40’s it’s only old once the original Terrazzo floor, hardboard clad stair case, & 70’s pattern stair carpet with a worn Persian runner. Not everyone’s taste! 🤓 & I get hammered for it! 🥲 but I like it!

Illustrations for the @GreatWarGroup OTT magazine - amazing women of WW1 impossibly brave, driven & resourceful, some ultimately gave their lives for their respective countries! Louise de Bettignes- Emilienne Moreau - Mara Hari - Mabel St Clare Stobart!

Very excited to receive at Smith Design Towers the latest copy of Salient Points with the junior magazine ‘Over The Top’, literally jam packed with fascinating WW1 articles & a graphic novel sign up here 👇🏻💣 greatwargroup.com

In a bid for redemption…. I think 💭 I may have left it too late, and it will take more than a few Easter cards for the local church! 🤣🤫🪺🙏