Peregrine Pocock

History buff, love jazz, @YorkshireCCC & @SDPhq member.

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My training video at my first job at Simpsons.

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@GenealogyBeech I remember it quite fondly. Every Sunday morning in the summer we would file down and splash around after doing one length. Last time I used a mangle to dry my swimming trunks.

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@ThatchGer1 @Artemisapphire I'm still alive! Immobile and unemployed but alive.

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@mcgillmd921 Suetonius is a brilliant first choice. Got my first copy when I was about 15. Rubicon is excellent too but can I recommend Robert Harris' Cicero trilogy too.

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@mcgillmd921 I read it in my first year at Uni. I was studying Physics but friends were doing History & Politics. They found the language difficult and didn't have a basic understand of Roman history so I read it for them.
I have to admit that I found the chapters on the church difficult.

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@MedievalScholar Denmark then HRE, I just like or as a background.

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@WG_RumblePants I am in the anyone but Key camp. MW was a quality player, Key a journeyman. I saw him at Yorkshire's last game at Harrogate and he was clearly the best batsman on the field. Nasser would get my vote but MW comes close second.

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@TheBasicExpert1 Small wars were the kick-off point (if one ignores Kriegsspiel as it didn't use models), I would argue that Brig Peter Young's Charge! was the first rule book. I was lucky to play a couple of games with him.

As an aside how Napoleon played Small Wars confuses me!

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Used to love JPL. My father in law and I would tinker on his boat on the Leeds-Liverpool canal, grab lunch from Morrisons then go to Headingley to watch Yorkshire lose yet again (for some reason they won at Scarborough - all perception I suppose).

People forget how boring Sunday afternoons were, JPL filled that gap whether live or on TV.

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@DamCou I saw this when it first came out. I thought it was as cool as hell (in the cold not hot version). I rewatched the first couple of seasons a couple of years ago (not worth it btw) and this sequence is just as good as it was then.

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@GenealogyBeech I have read a lesson there. Also fainted one Sunday.

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@FryUpSociety No beans, automatic win.

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@London_W4 Partridges used to be me favourite (prices only slightly lower than F&M at the time - late 80s) when they were on the Kings Road. Their wild boar pate was wonderful.

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@SettlingNomads @nkh12349 Snap

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@nkh12349 Agree

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@createstreets A bit too tall for me. I was baptised in the church next to here (smallest country house in the country I believe):

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@EvaLovesDesign A friend's parents had a couple of Wassily chairs, surprisingly comfortable. Nothing compared to the Eames, which are perfect.

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@LordAshcroft @NAM_London @VC_and_GC_Assoc Super news. NAM was my favourite museum when I was a schoolchild in the early 80s; I haven't been for decades, time to rectify that.

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@SarahJaneMorri3 @jazzfm So pleased to hear Sarah, I have been a fan since the Love & Pain album.

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@t64_bv @Jonpy99 Have they upgraded the top armour? I seem to remember this was a problem in Chechnya.