JUST TWO WEEKS TO GO to the formal launch of The Bomber and the Weathervane at the International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln on 27th July. Just awaiting delivery of the first 50 copies. Sooo excited 🤗🤗

Morning! Back on weather - after about a month 😅 A whirlwind few weeks of TV + radio training in London ❤️, w/ 2 Steampunk Orchestra shows thrown in 🎻🎶⬇️ Here’s the final TV piece: feat. some magnifique French ppl of London…🇫🇷❤️ PS-The weather…should improve! ☀️🌈

Look what has arrived! Getting everything for the book launch and signing at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln on Saturday. Can't wait! Looking forward to meeting up with Helen Theron, the owner of the Weathervane, and Mike Osborne, who flew in a Lanc in 2014.

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Today's the day! The official launch and book signing of The Bomber and the Weathervane is happening today at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln at 10.30am. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Happy publication day to HWA member Tony ASTON and The Bomber and the Weathervane! It tells how a couple wanted to commemorate the crew of a Lancaster bomber shot down in 1944. They reunited the crew's descendants in a war memorial dedication. See more: historiamag.com/the-bomber-and…

clare mulley tells us a misunderstood fact about World War II! #historians #historyfestival #historytok #WeHaveWaysFest #agentzo #herstory #spies #war #resistance #secretagent #WWII

This wknd a luxury #cruise ship was in town⚓️🌊 In 2018: 0 cruise calls to #Plymouth Yet in the last 2 yrs, bookings have doubled... 10,000 guests expected by end of the season! 🚢🇺🇸☀️ BBC South West BBC Devon Cruise Plymouth Destination Plymouth Silversea Richard Allan BBC News (UK)

Following the publication of "The Bomber and the Weathervane", I am attending 2 events in Germany in Sept which Helen Theron and I have organised, one at the graveside of the JB453 crew in Berlin,the other at the crash site in Timmenrode, where a memorial plaque will be unveiled.

Extract from the Daily Telegraph on Saturday. Lovely to see that all the work Helen Theron and I have been carrying out over the last 3 years is being recognised. The book "The Bomber and the Weathervane" available from Amazon. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

A further article, this one in the Sunday Telegraph. The Telegraph will also be covering the commemoration service and the plaque unveiling in Germany to which I'll be travelling from my Devon home with Helen Theron and crew descendants on 13th/14th September. Lest We Forget.

Thanks to Adie Bond for paying his respects at this memorial to courageous #WW2 hero #Zo - #ElżbietaZawacka - having read my book #AgentZo. This means the world to me!

Humbling experiences in Germany last weekend when we held a service at the British War Cemetery, Berlin then unveiled a memorial stone and plaque 100 miles away at the crash site in Timmenrode of Lancaster JB453, subject of my book, "The Bomber and the Weathervane" LEST WE FORGET

My late Dad wrote his memoirs towards the 1990s documenting, from memory, his life from growing up in poverty in The Midlands, to service in WWI then co-owning his own company, plus everything that went on in between. I am proud to be able to publish this amazing social history.

What a difference a day makes!... ☀️😎☔️🌧️ ⚠️for rain this AM - but *should* bcc drier + brighter, still windy, this afternoon... #StormAshley BBC Devon BBC Cornwall BBC South West

PUBLICATION DAY FOR "THIS IS HOW IT WAS" 2 November - book goes on sale on all Amazon platforms. This is my father, Eddie Aston's, lifetime memoir, growing up in abject poverty during the 1920's, serving in WWII, becoming a company director in the 70s, and everything in between!

Thrilled and proud to have been invited, as a member of the National Association of Retired Police Officers, to be part of the Cenotaph March Past in London on Remembrance Sunday this weekend in the presence of the King. Live coverage BBC TV. A real unique opportunity for me!

Soo it’s set to get much colder next week i.e. 4C for some in Devon on Tuesday! 🥶 ❄️ As the temps plummet, here’s a throwback to a much sunnier, warmer summer story…☀️ 🏖️ BBC South West BBC Cornwall BBC News (UK) Eden Project Ross Lannon

Nothing like a #Sunday #strings session in South Wales…🎶🥳❤️ 3 parts recorded, just the 1 violin 🥰 Rockfield Studios

The crew of Lancaster bomber JB453 OL-F, subject of my book, The Bomber and the Weathervane. Took off from RAF Wyton in the last few minutes of January 2nd 1944 before being shot down on the return from Berlin in the early hours of 3rd with all souls lost. Always remembered.