sdalek.bsky.social
Cold War relic from the north east coast of England, into guitars, tanks, sprouts, history and ting. IC #4450.
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Cromwell, Comet and Centurion.
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Fires tracer, but also used for close support
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Haha, definitely!
There was also a very hasty and disappointingly unsatisfactory termination of 'The Expanse'.
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Not often you hear a bunch of Italians shouting 'Totalitarian!' on live telly though.
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farage and the lickspittle tories buggered us with brexit. We should be trying to get back in the EU's good books. Starmer might be a bit of a disappointment but I shudder to think where we'd be if Labour HADN'T won the election.
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Good to see you're up and posting again! Hope you're feeling better. :)
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I think it's actually a 21 cm Mörser 18
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No wheels of their own, but... (ahem)
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Ha, not at all! I hoped the Canadian guy would get the job, but this is even better 😁
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U-1142
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The one in the foreground (a Mk.V, I believe) has Churchill track, as well as Sherman track links on the turret and around the hill M.G. port. Interestingly it also appears to be missing a wheel bogie.
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Well we went on Thursday when it decided to piss down :(
As novice ground-walkers, we managed a wander round the Hartenstein grounds, walk some of the Northern perimeter, and visit the cemetery before the rain took it's toll on Mrs Dalek, so we hit the Lombok and then Arnhem and the bridge.
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Brilliant, thanks! I'll have to see what we can fit in. It's a bit of an (ahem) flying visit.👍
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Why does this come as no surprise?
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But... "the PIAT was crap and British" 🙄🤣
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Maybe you could have the milk in the top turret?
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That's lovely, especially with Easter coming. However...
My brain automatically inserted John Hurt into that picture :)
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Careful now. You'll end up on a list 😏
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Guy Ritchie's "Sink The Bismarck"? Quite the concept after a couple of espressos on a sunny morning. I _sort of_ want to see it...
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I do like to see a Mustang in RAF camouflage. They really look like they mean business!
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Meanwhile in the UK we rely on the tried and tested formula of nationalistic bandwagon-jumpers and crypto-fascists spouting lies, bigotry and xenophobia, supported by the right-wing press. 🤔
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I get your point, and agree about Nazi fanboys, but I don't think having a go at the museum is fair. These idiot Nazi wannabes would be just as rabid if there were no tanks, aircraft or whatever in museums. Prohibition in any form usually fails anyway. I hate Nazis but I do like tanks.
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Having endured our very own clown show with Johnson, Truss and co., I sympathise, but it's reassuring to know that satire (even when it has almost written itself) can still prove that not all Americans are MAGA drones, even if the MSM fails to report the protests.👍
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He's just yet another victim of two-tiered shaving...
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Toffs love to keep the oiks in their place by stirring up jingoistic, racist xenophobia and general othering to keep their chums in power and stop the filthy proletariat getting their grubby little hands on their lolly whilst they go "I'm alright, Jack"-booting it all the way to bank. E.g. Brexit
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Our toffs have always loved fascism. Mosley was a toff, the Mitfords, Mr & Mrs Windsor of course...
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But we *did* get our Blue Passports back... 😏
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No doubt he *will* find a suitably compliant interviewer to whom he can twitch and rant and slag off the offending judge.🙄
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As a child I was simultaneously fascinated and horrified by gala pie.🫣
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Definitely
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The BJM raising the bar on the art of fucking up! :)
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The cabriolet model. 😏
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And managing to make the M10 look luxurious...
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Tip-top! Chaps with cigarettes, types with pipes and good old British industrial might delivering the goods to stymie the original rotten Nazis. Huzzah!
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As much as I like Cromwell's, they should keep it as a Charioteer. I reckon.
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A still from the 1958 film 'Sea of Sand'! ;)
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Glad you mentioned it. I've spent all afternoon swearing at Amazon Music 😏
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Hello, I'm number 4450, if you would add me to the roster.
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Van Der Graaf Generator.