@Matthew74665872 @DrHelenFry Yes, in the Royal Navy green ink was the preserve of admirals. Cumming was an RN captain and I've always wondered whether his use of green was a sign of ego or sticking 2 fingers up at some part of the institution.
@pinstripedline Standard stone age procurement practice... Buy a nippy little Flintstones car, leave it in a store room for 9000 years, radiation harden it with a case that makes it too heavy to move, then declare it to be a tank?
@StAlbansPolice@HertsPolice busy crossroad 4-way temporary traffic signals all stuck on red causing chaos at junction of Hatfield Road, Clarence Road and Stanhope Road, AL1.
Can't get through on 101. Doesn't feel like 999
@AlastairBruce_@SkyNews@GylesB1 Nobody would ever really be sure it wasn't acceptable rig for an Army officer, anyway. As long as no other officer in the room was wearing the same woolly pully!
Reflecting today, as I read through a souvenir programme of the Queen's coronation, which my dad gave me many years ago. Much of its content still rings true today, and it talks of the young Princess, then Queen, Elizabeth.
And then I read this...
#Jubilee#OurQueen#OurNation
A nation, like a garden, is a creation of constant love and labour. If that love and labour cease, the weeds and the wild that threaten it will break in and destroy it."
#OurUnion#OurNation#OurQueen#PlatinumJubilee