‘Not bad for a little, fat, bald bloke’

Cracking epitaph from Berrima , Southern Highlands, Australia.

For #Cricket aficionados, Sir Don Bradman’s house is for sale.

And if a 99.94% restoration, the same as his batting average is not a brilliant piece of #MarketingTools I’ll eat my chapeau.

On the #Falklands 25th I was asked to select 6 books for the The Times and The Sunday Times book section.

By a quirk of fate, just found out that Ken Lukowiak is writing a book on Skippy, the bush kangaroo!

No need to describe this iconic image/battle.

The surprise is that it's in the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and waz purchased in 1882.

#Iran “It is time to take out our swords & teach them a lesson”

A quote fm today?

No: 2019 & the attacks on KSA oil refineries. All ops are approved with strict caveats by the SL - that must be remembered when you get wild takes

The Iranian bar is pretty low: regime survival.

For my Canadian friends, this reminded me of a ‘Group of Seven’ painting by Tom Thomson

but not in the snow

And it’s warm…

(Hamilton Island, Queensland)

#Iran retaliation is generally based on Persian cultural norms that it should be seen as commensurate & proportionate retaliation that should be expected and considered as ‘fair’ by the West.

But #Israel may not see it that way.

Shock and withhold (of future targets)

If life is partly the aggregation of the good luck & bad luck given to you, then m’lad and his girlfriend had the good luck cursor set on them today in the serious incident in Westfield, Sydney today.

Heard 3 shots (thought they were from friendly forces), saw 1 CIVCAS

Nature nurtures

(Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas, Queensland)

Morning possums!

(Not seen…)

Spotted HMAS Adelaide, one of the largest ships in the Aussie navy just around the corner.

A squabble of gulls isolated a lone human before moving in for the kill, whilst the human lifeguards turned the other way and did nothing!

You have been warned!

No messing about in #Singapore

In all the discussion of raising the U.K. defence budget to 3% of GDP, I don’t believe ‘patriotic prostitution’ would feature on the bingo card…

The art of knowing when to retire.
Lt Gen Bond had it o down to a tee…

Modern witchcraft on m’ bum cheeks.

The very bearded B Company 1st/24th around 1879:in the Zulu wars.

How well can they fight had always been more important to me than how uniform do they look on a parade square

General Mattis used to say that unless you had read 1000 books you were functionally illiterate.

I think he was really making the case for continual professional development.

So, here’s my latest CPD on those new domains of warfare.