Ed Letherby 💙🏉📷🏂🚵

Bath & England Rugby fan, likes BTCC, F1 & being outside | Madmen have such seething brains | Aptet, Improvise, Expugna | Views my own

[RugbyInsideLine @RugbyInsideLine]

Something rather poetic about Baxter bringing the curtain down on McCall's time with a twenty point drubbing.

Chiefs were the most aggrieved team during those salary cap days.

Baxter with the last laugh.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The day I was personally mugged off by a member of the royal family - A true story

On a hot summer’s day in 1995, in a lavish garden in Fife, my supervisor and I were standing in a big hole in the ground. The hole had been dug some days previously for a swimming pool that was to eventually fill the sizeable excavation where we were now standing.

The garden, and accompanying estate, were the property of Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee, who had commissioned the swimming pool.

As we toiled in the blaze of the midday sun installing electrical cables for lighting, we saw Earl Dundee walking around with someone who looked very familiar to me. The pair walked towards us and engaged us in conversation. The Earl’s companion, a much older gentleman, regaled us with a tale of an eccentric man who used to go swimming in Hyde Park every day, rain or shine. After he’d finished his tale I piped up.

‘I hope you don’t mind me asking, but you seem very familiar’, said I.

‘Oh?’ replied the man. He smiled and paused for a minute. ‘Do you have any money in your pocket?’

Thinking this was a very odd thing to ask, but aware of the peculiarities of the aristocracy (whom I thought this guy must have been a member of), I pulled out a 50p piece from my pocket.

‘You see that woman?’ he asked, pointing at the female face on the coin. ‘That’s my wife.’

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

From Blackwood calmly explaining the trick while fighting for his life to the crow appearing at every death, Sherlock Holmes’ final confrontation with him in SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) is pure cinema.

[Lucas @RugbyRecitation]

THIRD HOME SEMI-FINAL IN A ROW!!!

[Daniel Valente 🏎️ @F1GuyDan]

It's been exactly 5 years since we got this iconic photo of Max Verstappen kicking his blown out tyre in Baku with an Experience Azerbaijan banner behind him.

[marco¹⁴ @14WEBBONSO]

I AM CRYING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

I maintain this, from @LeeTrundle10, is the greatest penalty kick in football history. And that’s a hill I’m willing to die on…

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Lord Hanson of Flint Labour Peer & Minister @RTHondavehanson]

In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay

[Noah Taylor @ByNoahTaylor]

June 5, 1944 —

“Tonight is the night of nights.

Tomorrow throughout the whole of our homeland and the Allied world the bells will ring out the tidings that you have arrived, and the invasion for liberation has begun.”

[ndr @NDR_lufc]

Part of the most poignant scene in Ted Lasso, RIP Anthony Head

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Robert Jenrick: “We have procured more hotels very rapidly… What I have done in my short tenure is ramp that up and procure even more.”

Nigel Farage: “This man is a fraud. This man isn’t to be trusted.”

Now both are in #ReformUK telling you immigration is through the roof.

You’re the dummy if you believe a single word from either of them. Same circus, different clowns.
@Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Farage *may* avoid prison for what is publicly known. But I'm certain if he is fully investigated he'll end up serving 10 years min.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

It's national #fishandchips day. But at nearly £60 for four servings of cod and chips, it's rapidly becoming a luxury beyond the means of many families.

[latsot @latsot]

My absolute favourite fact of all time is that Tony Hart was in the Gurkhas.

And if anyone over about 45 says they don't have the gallery music from Take Hart playing in their heads right now then I will call them a bloody liar.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The calm before the storm. Pointe du Hoc. The most dangerous mission on D-Day, according to Omar Bradley. 225 men will fight here late tonight, US time. 77 will be killed, and more than 140 will be wounded.

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK.

In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this:
‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’

It’s not some woke conspiracy.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Having read this, it’s a simple glitch that meant 60 tickets (SIXTY) were accidentally sent out to people for free and FIFA can’t even bring themselves to swallow it.

They’d sell the air people breathe in the stadiums if they could.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

Henry Nowak's mother has said:

"We are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. We want his memory to help bring our society together."

And there you have it.