stfconly.bsky.social
Ex-hack. Reads a lot. Most of it never seems to go in. Or stay in. Dull.
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Not since all the stories about Mrs Liddle Hart.
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Don’t think there are enough anecdotes about historian’s mums.
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Nice Walrus. Which I can’t say with my brain ruining.
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Completely unaware of the torpedo role - I just didn’t imagine them agile enough. Great stuff as always.
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The only criticism I can really muster is just occasionally cliche does slip into the otherwise precise prose.
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I will. I might need to find something other than pavlovas to use all the whites on. Perhaps one pavlova.
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It looks fantastic - and has been on my list to make ever since I got both books some decade ago - but I never quite managed it. I’m sure it will be worth the effort though.
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I struggled on (charity shop impulse purchase). Your decision was not incorrect. Seemed very odd to use the war as explanation for the recklessness of the expedition but have so little idea about the war. Or the explorers.
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To be fair, the satellite used by Rutland Weekend Television could be about the size of Rutland.
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The Dirty Oven?
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They were also very good! I really need to follow your reading recommendations from the final pod.
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I had it on the Spectrum. My retinas will never forget that colour clash.
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Platoon (the movie tie-in) was about the earliest Vietnam game I can remember. It even had tunnel sequence. Think it came out on Spectrum and C64 probably about 87.
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12th Knightlore
#ShakespeareGames
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I thought it was the First Duke of Marlborough it was named after? I mean, he was a relative of Winston but it wasn’t named after him.
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Also it could really do with a good proofing. Which is very odd in the hardback edition.
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The same was true for me. Things have mapped out basically the same for both of us. Am I right?
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Belfast wasn’t my first thought. My actual first thought was ‘when do children leave you alone?’.
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‘Like new’. So much so that even the Middlesex University stamp is still extremely legible.
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And yet Lodi by Creedance.
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Yours is slightly ahead of ours, but it is still a delight to come home to. Especially the smell.
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We’ve all done it.
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Do you think the missing apostrophe is intentional?
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Although complete agree with your point on console gaming and pricing.
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I think ‘cheap games’ is a memory for the small number of those flash enough to have an Amiga or ST. Piracy meant every game was the cost of a disk.
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At least it is a WW2 role that Hanks is actually almost the right age to play.
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It is the endtimes!
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I absolutely howled at his ‘I didn’t see that coming, did you?’ half aside when he’s arrested at the end of S1. Brilliant performance.
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The Paddleboarder of Shalott
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Still have some of the keyboard shortcuts somewhere in the back of my memory. Probably under these dust sheets… ‘Ctrl+T runaround’.