My daughter found a bunch of photos in the cupboard the other day that I hadn’t seen in many years. Amongst them were photos of the Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin (Russian: Космона́вт Ю́рий Гага́рин) that I took around 1988/89 whilst I was serving on HMS Juno (F52)
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I mean, every one of you that voted leave, considered this point at the start of this Brexit...
Read More‘ I AM STANDING UP FOR MEN SPEAKING OUT’ Every week, 84 men in the UK take their own lives. The majority will have suffered in silence or tried to self-medicate themselves…and failed. As men our ‘strong and silent’...
Read More“And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.” Churchill’s speech on D-Day (Hansard, 6 June 1944, cols 1209-1210). June 6th 1944 – The...
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Read MoreTo be honest, initially I started off as an “in” but that was purely based upon “it’s what I know”. I then realised I had better do some research since whilst it may not affect me so much, it will...
Read MoreMany thanks to Alan Levine for creating Feed2JS many moons ago, but I’ve decided to remove access to the Feed2JS service installed on the yaps4u.net domain. I’ve contacted those users who had let me know they were...
Read MoreEarly on today, an image popped up on my Facebook timeline and whoosh, out came my goat. Both of those incidents really got my goat up back then and still do. Guy Martin has “Brian the Monkey”, me, I have...
Read MoreI’ve finally gotten around to updating the website and hopefully, will find some time to post a bit more regular than I have been able to previously.Things have been a bit difficult over the past few years, but I am...
Read MoreThis morning I learnt the sad news that Len Sassaman sadly passed away having taken his own life in an apparent suicide at his home in Leuven, Belgium. Len was a major advocate for privacy and a great influence on some of my...
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