Happy Christmas from me and Sam 🎄

I watched this last night for the first time…..honestly. Pretty good. Loved Alan Rickman. Is it a Christmas movie?

@pahendry2015.bsky.social 😁

Grateful for reposts!

Nicked from Facebook, fabulous photos posted by Alison Treacher. Stokes Bay in Gosport this afternoon

Gratuitous cat pic

You can tell I’m posh, I have two Christmas trees 🤣

Some very special news today for little Stormzy. Look at him just after getting the news. Bouncing!!!

Hooray

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Beach Boys plus Sam and Dave Emerson Lake and Palmer Shawaddywaddy Cliff Richard (🙄) Simply Red Bit of an odd mix isn’t it 😄

Goodbye Keogh barracks from the Museum of Military Medicine

Martha, a Munition-maker Manufactures shells Martha's Father is a baker: Cakes are what HE sells. Martha swears the shells she makes Do more damage than his cakes ... Perhaps. #WW1

“Now let’s see, where was I?…oh yes…3: Overrule/Ignore expert advice; 4: Authorise the purchase of unsuitable and overpriced PPE from mates of colleagues; 5: Grant Peerages to fellow conspirators; 6: Deny all responsibility for thousands of deaths; 7: Make another fortune on the Lecture circuit.

An impressive set of medals. Cpl Poole RAMC. At the Museum of Military Medicine. Currently being packed up ready to move out of Keogh barracks this month.

Really good to hear Stella Creasy on @newsagents.bsky.social saying students should be removed from immigration figures. Of course they should! And they make up a huge chunk of the figures - around half. They’re part of the success story of global Britain - coming here to get a great education.

What a story!

AAC Granby veterans - We are currently compiling the history of the AAC involvement in Gulf War 1. We welcome contributions to Ops Normal Volume 2. Please contact me at [email protected]

@nursinghistory.bsky.social Spotted on farce book

Putting a few old medals onto a database yesterday (😲)…. I actually had these in my hand!

A few pics from the Armistice day service this morning. A good turnout of around 100 people at Royal Hospital Haslar

My great uncle who was forgotten in the family until last year. I suspect my dad was named for him. 23/05/1916

Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.

HMS Alliance day

I've never really understood the logic of "targeted vaccination". Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent. Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it. But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...

An important week for #LabourAchievements. I’m especially happy with 2 new National Forests and the Gov working with Airbnb to help victims of abuse. Labour #FixingBritain

We've been down on the beach today picking up firework debris. It's odd, isn't it, that you can be fined £250 for dropping litter but somehow it's OK to launch rockets containing plastic casings into the sky.

At risk of repetition... AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

So ask yourself... Why the concern for women only when the perpetrator is a migrant?

An excellent conference followed by a very nice dinner with good company at the joint Gallipoli Association and WFA day

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Man on a bus: I did my kids’ Halloween make‑up. They loved it, but it scared their friends. I might have overdone it. I’m a trauma surgeon.

Oh, look at this - the letting agents apologise for NOT applying for the rental license & say Rachel Reeves would have been under the impression the license HAD been applied for. Can we have the apologies now from everyone who have been absolutely obnoxious today in their handling of the story?

#OnThisDay 1915 the Girton & Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals set sail from Liverpool to Serbia to set up a hospital unit in Salonika. This photo, taken 2 days before they departed, is from the album of Nurse Annie Allan heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/408 #histnursing #histmed #WW1

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Lovely sunset this evening

If Reform UK are happy to have an overt racist on their benches then what does that tell you about the party? Pochin should have had the whip removed 24 hours ago. Or are Reform condoning it by their silence? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today’s antique fair purchases

A Brush with War CVMM series WW1Total war brings gruesome realism to public art Title: Stretcher Bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Lifting a Wounded Man out of a Trench Artist: Lt.Gilbert Rogers,Royal Army Medical Corps Served in France, Middle East READ MORE artuk.org/discover/cur...

Lovely view from my kitchen (looking towards the Isle of Wight) when I was having my tea this evening. Can you see the moon?

Great article

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

Well that was a splendid evening

"If you’re a bunch of racist Israeli football hooligans who want to travel to the UK for sport - the British government will fund your security when the police say it’s unsafe for you to come. It will approve your visa" "But if you’re an 11 year old table tennis prodigy from Iran ...."

Hi, we would really like to grow our following a little here in the skyblue realm. If you think you have followers who might appreciate our posting of beautiful and interesting books please do consider reposting this so they can consider giving us a follow. Thank you...

The two Kinder Transport memorials at Liverpool Street Station. Arguably the finest humanitarian act ever performed by this country. Imagine doing this now - the likes of Farage, Bad Enoch and their friends would be promising immediate deportation should they ever get into power.

The Museum of Military Medicine is packing up, about to leave Keogh barracks for a new museum home (it will also have a presence in a couple of other places), aided by the Army today. Brilliant members of RAMS dismantling display cases.