Phil Carlisle

Nice. Never seen an VIII in the wild.

Spotted on the bum of the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. PA bolt 13.216m AOD #BenchmarkMonday

Made me laugh!

But there does seem to be a design flaw with the standard US 2-pin plug. In my experience, when in the US, it’s difficult to keep a universal adapter in the socket when it has a UK or EU plug in. Gravity is not its friend.

It’s not.

Looks like it accepts a UK 3-pin plug and I’d wager good money that one of those wouldn’t fall out.

Crikey. Turns out I’m better at French Wordle than actual Wordle. For today at least….

Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1368 2/6

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With all the flag-shagging going on at the moment I’m reminded of this song everyday. No truer lyrics - “Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world, than the pride that divides when a colourful rag is unfurled…”

Stone milestone, with OS benchmark, set into the bridge parapet showing distance from Dublin to Mountbellew Bridge, Co. Galway

View of stone milestone, with OS benchmark, set into the bridge parapet showing distance from Dublin to Mountbellew Bridge, Co. Galway

#BenchmarkMonday #MilestoneMonday Double whammy of benchmark and milestone. Mountbellew Bridge, Mountbellew, Co. Galway. 1916 OS map gives 205.0 feet aOD.

Forgive my use of ‘this guy’, don’t know what came over me! Obviously meant to say ‘this gentleman’.

Aberdeen pilot who was last surviving recipient of WW2 Victoria Cross dies aged 105 John Cruickshank, a flight lieutenant, earned the honour for his role in an attack on a German U-Boat, during which he suffered 72 injuries while piloting a Catalina flying boat on July 17, 1944.

@jockbruce.bsky.social am I remembering correctly that you met this guy? www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...

Cheers! I loved the beer and worthy of a 5 on Untapp’d (although I fear I may be showing some pro-Rush bias in my marking…)

Love it! At the moment we can only get the Golden Ale in the UK but hopeful that the others will make it over soon.

A beer can, depicting the Starman symbol of the Canadian rock band Rush, with the top removed and filled with paintbrushes. In the foreground are some modelling accessories and behind a collection of vinyl records and memorabilia of the band.

New brush holder. In the Venn diagram of what makes me happy this would be a circle. #RUSH #beer #HistScaleModels

Oh frabjous day! Can’t wait to sample these beauties. Happy belated #InternationalBeerDay #Rushon

Love this museum. The Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille has the rest of the collection.

Strangely mislabelled as a Churchill on the interpretation panel

A Second World War tank displayed in a garden setting with a small hedge around

An interpretation panel giving information about a Churchill Crocodile Tank

The Churchill Crocodile at Musée Mémorial Bataille de Normandie in Bayeux #TankTuesday

YouTube video by Rush on MV Rush - Bastille Day - 12/10/1976 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

Happy Bastille Day!

A great day for the French and, indeed, Rushians…

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A stone-built buttress with a small metal bracket embedded in one of the cornerstones. The metal plate shows the broad arrow symbol the letters O, S, B, M and the number S9052

A stone-built buttress with a small metal bracket embedded in one of the cornerstones. The metal plate shows the broad arrow symbol the letters O, S, B, M and the number S9052

The base of a brick wall with a small metal bracket embedded in it.The metal plate shows the broad arrow symbol the letters O, S, B, M and the number S9053

A couple of neighbourly flush brackets for #BenchmarkMonday

FL BR. S9052 @53.728m on the east side of St. Michael’s in Farnsfield Notts.

And FL BR S9053 @39.256m on the east side of the old school at Edingley, Notts.

A picture of a Commando comic with two soldiers on the front cover and the title Hair-Trigger in large letters. One soldier is pointing his revolver at the head of the other.

Found a box of goodies in the garage. Only 4 years since we moved in…
It contains a couple of hundred Commando comics. Having now arranged them in numerical order here’s the earliest one I have. #870 ‘Hair-Trigger’ from 1974. Anyone have an earlier one? #70s #childhood #commando

Two homemade cards with a child’s drawing of a dad.

A homemade card for father’s day with a portrait of a man in a Rush T-shirt.

A photo showing a bar of chocolate with a homemade badge showing an anthropomorphic beer bottle holding a smaller bottle of orangina representing his daughter

Two boxes containing brick-building kits of the French comic book characters Asterix and Obelix

It’s #fathersday and here’s the offerings I received this morning. Particularly pleased with Sid’s drawings of me in a Rush T-shirt. And Alice’s badge where I’m the beer and she’s Orangina. Looking forward to building Asterix and Obelix later.

Looks like the recent trip to Brittany was worth it.

The Museum of Timekeeping has a gallery dedicated to the speaking clock www.museumoftimekeeping.org.uk/the-collecti...

Nigel Farage is a bellend. Pass it on.

The sheer size of these things… Keroman III U-Boat pens at Lorient. Fantastic guided tour and well worth a visit.

Rows of upright stones separated by swathes of grass.

Upright stones in rows separated by grassed areas. The sky is big and blue with cloud formations. To centre left a road bends.

A group of standing stones forming a square. The space inside the stones has tall grass.

A wooden decking pathway leads to an old, stone, circular building. Above is a blue, cloud-filled sky. A tree overhangs the top of the picture.

An afternoon stroll among old stones and remembering old friends. Col - you wouldn’t recognize the place. Si - too old for us but seeing some Medieval stuff tomorrow. I’ll raise a glass to you both. Miss you still x

The image shows a side view of a Second World War Churchill AVRE tank standing on an area of concrete. Behind can be seen the rooftops of houses. Grass is growing through the concrete in places and a raised plinth has a bronze plaque with an inscription commemorating the tank.

The photo shows the front of a Churchill AVRE tank standing on a concrete base. Clearly visible is a yellow inverted triangle with a bull’s head on it - the insignia of the 79th Armoured Brigade. The barrel of the tank has been replaced by a spigot mortar.

The photo depicts a Second World War era Churchill tank under a brooding overcast sky with thick clouds.

A side on view of a Churchill AVRE tank standing on a concrete base as a memorial to similar vehicles that took part in the battle of Normandy.

Here’s a nice Churchill AVRE from just to the west of Lion-sur-mer, Sword Beach. Taken today.

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Sign the Petition Save the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts!

Please consider signing this. It’s a fantastic school chng.it/PMbRp9FR68

Having seen this I’ve just ordered the same! I was a cadet in SRY in the 80s.