Another fresh day. Replete with opportunity

May 28th 1982: The Argentine Air Force orders an attack against the British Hospital Ship SS Uganda. Argentine pilot, Squadron Leader Mario Jorge Caffaratti, defies two direct orders to carry out the mission and finally tells his superiors: 'Why don't you go to hell?'

AUSTYN ROBERTSHAW NAYLOR, 49th (West Riding) Divisional Signals. -Died on 9 October 1939 as the result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident when his motorcycle and a car collided during the blackout.

This is exquisite. Exquisite. I shall never say Walther PPK again. 'Vallter.'

Also, genius lesson in how to do vox pops, and how - As An Expert - to politely set your peers on a smoother path, and still defer graciously when the final choice is their own. h/t Stephen Graham 🇺🇦

Can you imagine the talks his missus must give him?
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Sinew big old skies tonight

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#OTD in 1941. The last moments of the German battleship Bismarck. #WW2 #HISTORY

Probably Frank Meadow Sutcliffe image of Bay Bank, Robin Hood's Bay. Not the idyllic tourist village we know today but the working village it had been for many years. So different but also so similar

A small grave on the edge of Rawdon St Peters graveyard. 1927. The infant of Noel Grimshaw Bailey who went on to found the engineering company in Ilkley that still bears his name.

Here Guy Walters 🇺🇦 is granted access behind the scenes of filming for the new British film 'FENTON!'

Sunday mornings twitter always seems to suggest some Brexit related nonsense that I need to put right.

Do the hardcore Remoaners go round each other's house Saturday evenings, bore themselves silly with anecodtes about the wine they're drinking and then take to their keyboards?

I wrote a helpful guide to British electoral jargon.
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Greenish lamb tonight. Stoically eaten in the drizzle with the firepit rapidly being extinguished

I get settled down and they go off for tea! crowan

Today's accompaniment to my nature walk.

If I miss a lesser ring tailed grebe, it is because I'm concentrating on Wagger Thornton seeing off a panzer with his trusty Piat.

Serfdom is proposed as a NFU policy.

Dining in the company of Laura Trevelyan and her family.

'Don't stop me now' by Queen is a lot better to watch Rugby to than the Rugby commentary.