John M 🇬🇧🇺🇦

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Dad, RAF Veteran and survivor of numerous Leeds United ups and downs. Lover of nature, history, books and making miniatures. 75% English, 15% Welsh, 10% Odds & Ends. Just looking for things to make me smile...or think...or think and smile.

09-0540 United States Air Force Boeing C-40C (737-7DM(WL) BBJ). Courtesy of Planespotters.net
Part of a display of 1/72 scale military models including an 8-wheeled 'Terrapin' amphibious vehicle and a smaller tracked 'Weasel' being unloaded from a 'Buffalo'.
A collection of traditional nutcracker figures.
A chopping board made into a Christmas decoration. Downstairs a living room where a nutcracker stands beside a decorated tree underneath which are family presents. A framed photo of Mum, Dad and daughter hangs on the wall. Up in the loft an almost identical scene, but smaller, for a family of mice. A Happy Christmas from both families!
Part of the text on a shampoo bottle, claiming to have 0% harsh chemicals, artificial colour and perfume.
A smiling toddler sits on the grass and plays with a number of flexible, ring-shaped objects.
In the foreground is a cafe counter display of fruit flans. Behind are two members of staff preparing orders.
Atop a stone column, from which bubbles a stream of clear water, sits the statue of a smiling, long-necked boy.
Two windows of a highly decorated 'market' shop front in Riquewihr, Alsace.
A man and his daughter pose by a giant pair of scissors set into the grassy lawn of Anglesey Abbey.
A black and white commercial holiday snap from c1954. Mum and Dad with three sons, the youngest in a pushchair. Grandma completes the group.
A sunny June view of Sandringham House in front of which is a grassy terrace incorporating a recently replanted shrubbery.
Looking northwards from Boppard towards a sharp bend in the River Rhine with the steep hills of the Rhine gorge as a backdrop. In the distance two cruise ships are approaching. In the foreground a display of pink and red flowers.
By the side of a driveway leading up to a white painted building is a sign for "Ugley Village Hall".
Keukenhof Botanical Gardens, Netherlands. April 2025.
The cover of a textbook from the Norwegian language course "Lær mer norsk"
Still from a Greater Anglia TV advert featuring a Patrick Bamford impersonator getting a bit too friendly with a plastic chicken. Apparently it was meant to inspire a visit to Camden Market.
A still from the movie "The Forgotten Battle" showing Canadian soldiers moving up for an assault on the Walcheren causeway, November 1944. (Photo Credit: Darkknight / MovieStillsDB)
Aerial view of Batley, Yorkshire from 1951. Image taken from "Memories of Dewsbury and Batley"
Dr Chris Smith, virologist. Picture from BBC.
Brewster Model 239 Buffaloes in Finnish markings.
HMS Moyola, a 'River Class' Frigate launched in 1942. Moyola served with the Royal Navy until Oct 1944 when she was transferred to the Free French Navy and renamed Tonkinois.
HMS Boadicea, a B-Class Destroyer launched in 1930. IWM photograph.
The covers of two books by Nicholas Monsarrat. "Three Corvettes", an autobiographical account of his time in the Royal Navy during WW2, and "The Cruel Sea", a novel based on his own experiences.
New livery for Great British Railways revealed - Department for Transport picture.
HMS Kipling, a K-Class Destroyer launched in 1939. Sister ship to HMS Kelly which was the inspiration for the fictional HMS Torrin in the movie "In Which We Serve". Image from IWM collection.
HMS Ivanhoe 'D16', an I-Class Destroyer built for the Royal Navy in 1937.
A Christmas shop's display of traditional nutcrackers. Various sizes, in a mix of green and red uniforms.
"The Laughing Cavalier" by the Dutch master Frans Hals.
Box art from a "100 Years of London Transport" jigsaw featuring nine London buses from across the years. Painted by Trevor Mitchell.
Decorated food shop windows in Colmar, Alsace, display a variety of local specialities including wine, cheeses, meats and preserves.
The highly decorated windows of the Maison Kammerzell, Strasbourg, Alsace. Own photo from 2024.
A traditional Alsatian half-timbered house front with pale green shuttered windows beneath which are window boxes with trailing red flowers. The two lower windows sport pairs of decorative wooden storks.