Andrew Holmes 💙

Here you'll find bits of military history, wargames and science.
With occasional chocolate, food, music, nature, space and Sci-fi.

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I'm not a chocoholic. I can give it up anytime. Just not right now.

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@Garywittering Are the sprouts simmering?

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@project4_4 This is an iconic picture showing the use of the Churchill Ark to form a rudimentary bridge across shallow rivers. They were designed to bridge ditches and shell holes and to form a ramp over a sea wall or other obstacle. In the field they were pressed into other useful roles.

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@BladimirAn40585 @project4_4 The Achilles was called M10 17pdr at the time. The nickname apparently came later.

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@Dunkirk_1940 If you hit a camel,the owner always claims:
It's a racing camel that won many prizes.
It's female.
It's pregnant.

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@DyerbolicalDB The Magnet.

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@Niels_1944 @Dunkirk_1940 will see you right.

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@project4_4 @threadreaderapp unroll

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@AdamDavidWarne2 My pickup at Warbases, also for What A Cowboy. I'm hoping these pre coloured buildings will work as my own painting skills are decidedly lacking.

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@nntsn @andyweirauthor Not if you've read the book already.

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@Garywittering I remember when guests on TV shows had a claim to fame other than having been on a TV show.

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@HarmsworthAG Split screen or picture-in-picture could do this. Surely it's possible with today's tech.

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@Dunkirk_1940 Walking the Andes.

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@AnnalisaB @ObsMagazine I hope Waitrose will have the chocolate chicklets with chilli caramel filling. Again.

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@BritishArmyWDs If 1940 it might be an 18/25. 25 pdr on the 18 pdr chassis.

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@TankMuseum Also
2 inch mortar.
3 inch mortar.
Hand grenades.
Rifle grenades.
PIAT at a pinch.

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@SpencrGreenberg Doing maths in my head.

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@battlegames Reminds me of a scene from Enterprise.

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@DickDelingpole Standard drill.

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@SeaSpitfires This is from my copy of Nafziger.

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@PhilLoder Yeah but, Cagny 88s?