Can anyone explain this to me since it's a well known fact that the SNP walks on water? Jamie Blackett Are the Orkney Islanders upset that their motorhomes haven't arrived yet? BBC News - Orkney council to look at proposals to become territory of Norway bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

There needs to be a series on Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart. Between him, Hermione Llewellyn (Lady Ranfurly) and the Radzwill family (Belarus/Ukraine border) you have 1900-50. Comedy political military drama. How about it Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 & Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine ?

I will need to fundraise for an excavator to help save self propelled howitzers soon. They cost millions, having a quality excavator per battalion can save the howitzers themselves as well as personal. The idea is to get JCB 3xc, used with low hours. Right now, my friends are

James Jefferies “So our poor old Empire is alone in the world,” “Aye, we are — the whole five hundred million of us.” Cyril Bird, aka Fougasse of Punch Magazine, 17th July 1940. militaryhistorynow.com/2023/05/18/bri…

Tenby in 1802 via Paxton, Nelson, Piercefield, Wood, Cockerell and Warren Hastings to a Jane Austen quote: ‘Wales is not really somewhere to live; it is somewhere to have sublime feelings about, like a Gothic ruin or a mountain crag’.

There needs to be an Emett retrospective. Now. Military historians to the fore for 1938-45, your country's humour needs you Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

BREAKING: The first HS2 train for the North of England runs today, the new service will link Birmingham (Warwickshire) to Manchester (Chesire) and Barnsley (Lancashire) in just 71.75hrs and cost only £800.85bil to build. Tickets will cost £717.5 (Off-Peak) Filmed from a Canberra

'In Flanders Fields' by Canadian doctor Lt-Col John McCrae was first published in PUNCH 8 December 1915. #ArmisticeDay #WW1 #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2023 🍁

Our PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "D'you remember halting here on the retreat, George?" "Can't call it to mind... Was it that little village in the wood there down by the river, or was it that place with the cathedral & all them factories?" Fougasse 1918 #ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay

Inside the sophisticated media organisation of Hamas. unherd.com/2023/12/inside…

Just watched the first two films of the trilogy 'Millions Like Us', 'Two Thousand Women' & 'Waterloo Road'. Intrguigingly no great hatred towards Germans just the NSDM. 'Night Train to Munich', the forerunner, has cable car jumping. Plagiarised by 'Where Eagles Dare'?

Posted on the Moscow Telegram channel, appear to be rats sent from China driven inside by the cold. Sign of rats leaving sinking ships?

And then we have Putin wanting dreadlocks. Memes me wonder if he'll have on to being a rasta. Exodus, Survival, Confrontation or Uprising for Putin? t.me/moscowmap/60425

Do you remember Flanders & Swann, their London omnibus, hippopotamii & gnus? Donald Swann's father was born in St Petersburg, his autobiography Home on the Neva is a delight. His Russian nanny told stories about Kyiv being the 'Mother of Russian Cities'. Next Yuzivka in 1917.

The idea that the EU or the UK or anyone else “made” Russia invade Ukraine is like the bully telling the teacher the victim “made me hit them”. Full details: rleighturner.com/russia-ukraine…

Now that it has been reported that Ukrainians have been successfully shooting down drones using a shotgun from the rear seat of a Yak-52, was the Bolton Paul Defiant ahead of its time?

Between the harvest and ploughing Ukrainian farmers return to their other natural habit since February 2022.

And sometimes there is the unexpected joy of something that I never knew that I needed to listen to on a traditional instrument that I know nothing about.