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Redacteur radio en televisie NTR, Bunnik, - leest een gedicht, kraakt een noot
Wie zitten er in de koets?
28.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dieppe, JMW Turner. Encore tranquille.
01.10.2025 22:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Punt!
28.09.2025 12:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you look at Andrew Roberts's "Eminent Churchillians" (now 30 years old) in his chapter trashing Mountbatten he rather suggests the poor planning was just another example of his general incompetence.
17.08.2025 10:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Extract from A Display of Lights (9): The Lives and Puzzles of the Telegraph's Six Greatest Cryptic Crossword Setters, by Val Gilbert: We noticed the crossword contained the word Dieppe and there was an immediate and exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the end it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidence - a complete fluke.
Eventually, most people agreed that the whole thing had been a bad idea, but a question remained: had the Telegraph, of all newspapers, passed secrets to the enemy via a crossword? Intelligence officer (and son of John ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ Buchan) Lord Tweedsmuir was asked to investigate...
17.08.2025 09:44 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Extract from One Day in August, by David O’Keefe: During his intensive interrogation in the days following his capture, the exhausted prisoner, Major Brian McCool, the Principal Military Landing Officer for the Dieppe Raid, was subjected repeatedly to one burning question from his German interrogator: "What were you trying to do?" Still at a loss, the bewildered McCool lifted his head and replied, "If you could tell me I would be very grateful."
The raid was such a disaster, the 5,000 Canadian troops involved suffered 3,367 casualties (an absurdly high rate of 68%) – 907 of them killed (roughly one every 35 seconds for nine hours). The Germans were apparently so bewildered that they asked why it had happened
17.08.2025 09:43 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
German soldiers inspect a British tank stranded on the beach at Dieppe after the disastrous raid. Offshore, a landing craft burns in the background
It’s the 83rd anniversary of the clue “French port (6)” appearing in the Daily Telegraph. Which may not sound like much of a story, except that the next day, they printed the answer – Dieppe – and the day after that thousands of Allied troops landed at the very spot and the outcome was a bloody mess
17.08.2025 09:42 — 👍 114 🔁 54 💬 5 📌 20Kostelijk gesprek over een molotov in een kinderwagen
09.01.2025 23:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
