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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

well ackshually! 🙄 Exactly the same in a glass of milk

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Oh! I suppose I won’t be dead but …

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Nice account Michael. This map from the actual offensive a little better than the 1916 trench map you have used which has parts of the Redoubt in British hands.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I’ve got this image saved to point at anyone who feels the man was decent. All of his statements.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Image of presenters from Sewing Bee TV programme.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The Nieuport Memorial commemorates 552 British officers and men who were killed in Allied operations on the Belgian coast during the First World War and have no known grave. Not one of the better known Great War memorials.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Watching the Rome programmes last night making us long to get back there again soon. Only been away a few weeks! 😂

The Forum in Rome looking up to the Palatine Hill.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

How on Earth can anyone excuse this level of neglect - posted (a recent photograph) as we approach 11/11. Sorry @CWGC but this is a disgusting level of neglect and don't even begin to go with the environmentally friendly excuse.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Lovely short trip to Sutton Hoo last week. The exhibition is very well set up and with a campsite 10 minutes walk away! If you’ve not been then you really must.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

One of the coolest photos of two of the most gifted climbers of their generation, Siegfried Herford and George Mallory at Pen y Pass, December 1913 Geoffrey Winthrop Young © Alpine Club Photo Library and Herford on the first ascent of Central Buttress on Scafell in 1914.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Some French towns really knew how to build a Great War monument. Here’s one from Mamers.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

I don’t think he’s on here but Stuart Humphryes, under the name BabelColour does some superb work cleaning up old colour photos. He does not colourise them. This photo from the Great War is an example. His work richly deserves a following.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

The Monchy-le-Preux Caribou looking splendid this afternoon.

Newfoundland Caribou in Monchy-le-Preux, France.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Arras Memorial and Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery looking splendid in the afternoon sun.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Brilliant weekend in Brighton for the Great War Group Conference. Great seminars and two excellent Keynote from Tamara Scheer and Richard van Emden. Also Friday a themed evening on the Indian Army in the war. Plus lots of fun in the evenings. Join our friendly bunch of nerds at Greatwargroup.com.

Richard can Emden talking about Boy Soldiers

Tom Donovan at the Brighton War Memorial telling us about remembering the Indians in Brighton at our Remembrance Service (a trip to the Chatri followed)

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Excellent. We are at a campsite close to Hay on Wye (see view, not this morning though!). Toby is feeling the miles we walk more than he used to but still willing! Also he still has to put up with our investigation of churches! 😂

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Also in St Mary’s Cusop is this headstone, rear and front. Booth basically made Hay on Wye the book selling Centre it is today.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Lovely walk around Hay on Wye, can never resist a church or its memorials. This is in St Mary’s Cusop.

War memorial tablet inside the church with a list of names of those that fell in the Great War.

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Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

First post, according to Locky, supposed to be a pet so here goes. Say hello to Toby.

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