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Easy to imagine how much Warden no. 96136 enjoyed giving the Police Guard Room at Easthorpe Hall (RAF) a bollocking for leaving the door open.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 12h

Went to the Eden Camp museum today. They've got this ARP logbook where they kept a record of who they'd warned for showing lights during the blackout.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 13h

From Duxford, just in case they're useful.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I seem to remember the problem identified in the close season was "We need to score more goals".

Charts showing Goals Scored and Goal Difference compared to last season. They do not make for comfortable viewing.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Delighted to see this month's @wsc.co.uk review the terrific Six Days To Saturday from 1963, following Swindon Town players during the week.

The tone of the commentary is nervously anthropological; one concept the establishment truly fears is a leisured working class. Bobby Woodruff is filmed in a betting shop, a visit the voiceover has decided is "more of a gesture than a compulsive habit" (although suspiciously he is greeted immediately by name by all the regulars).

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lads lads lads, the actual Derwent!

Road sign indicating the River Derwent, and a bridge width warning.

Stamford Bridge over the River Derwent, taken only a couple weeks after the anniversary of Harold seeing off some Vikings near this very spot.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The done thing, when in York, is to pop in to Monk Bar Models of course (cheers to @stefjn.bsky.social for the tip off)

Monk Bar Model Shop, near a big old stone wall

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Every Sign Tells A Story, an occasional series.

No busking please
During office hours (8.30am - 6pm)

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Wrong Trousers, dir. Nick Park 1993

A traffic cone with a red safety glove on it

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went for a flight in this earlier today. Absolutely brilliant, although it was a good couple of hours before I could face any lunch.

A red, white and blue Pitts S-2A Special on the grass with the engine running. There are two people inside <waves>

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd love to claim I recognised it, but I looked it up.

An ADSB Exchange screenshot of a biplane leaving Popham, beating up Greenham Common then heading home again.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw a puff of smoke on the way home from work so quickly parked up and watched this Christen Eagle having a bit of fun at Greenham Common.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Floodlit football is the best football.

The sun setting behind the Town End, 1st April 2025; Swindon 2 - 1 Wimbledon.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Went for a run like some kind of dickhead and Strava failed to record it, but on the plus side a first public outing for my new Antarctic Thistle FC shirt. #DoReMe

A man (hello, it is me, I am the man) wearing blue and yellow Antarctic Thistle FC football shirt

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Correction: 541 Sqn didn't fly operationally on the 22nd due to weather, but 540 Sqn's Operational Records Book confirms that White and Prescott flew their Mosquito over Stettin (/Szczecin) so it'll be them that took those photos.

An excerpt from 540 (PR) Squadron's operational records book from April 1943 showing that P/O W.J. White and Sgt R.C. Prescott flew Mosquito DZ 473 on a photo reconnaissance flight over Stettin on 22.4.1943.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got this aerial reconnaissance stereoscope photograph too, which is neat. You can see the 3d if you can 'magic eye' your vision enough.

a 3d stereoscope from an aerial photograph. Go on, defocus your eyes and have a go.

The same photo, propped up in front of a laptop screen showing the same area of Szczecin today.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Number 4: Lyndhurst and Ashurst CC. This is our first thatched pavilion.

Lyndhurst & Ashurst Cricket Club's pitch, fenced off against New Forest ponies. Bolton's Bench, where someone slayed a dragon, is in the background.

Now facing east. The moon is trying to break through the cloud above the pavilion. Red lights on top of the cranes at Southampton docks are just visible on the horizon just to the right of the thatched pavilion building.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Boats get big quick, don't they?

The Airfix 1/72 RNLI Shannon class lifeboat, still in the box.

Two halves of the hill glued together on the stand

Deck fitted (and held on with elastic bands while the glue sets)

Superstructure balanced on top for effect

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What's that racket outside?

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today's workbench: Carousel repairs!

A small white horse from a clockwork carousel, next to the only unbroken original pole and four lengths of white plastic tubing cut to size.

Mix up some gold paint (silver and yellow, a little more yellow, bit more yellow, more yellow, no, more than that, so much yellow) and paint the poles.

Horses on the poles (after a gloss coat). Maybe I'm taking this too seriously?

The top glued back on and held with an elastic band lattice

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seems like as good a time as any to wash the sprues and flick through the instructions for this.

Airfix's 1/72 Shannon Class Lifeboat, still in the box.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It can be easier to set a pair of compass cutters to a given size to mask a wheel or something, but there's no way you're using those to cut something as small as these ambulance markings; that's where the Dspiae really excels.

A pair of compass cutters, which can be set to dimension by holding them up to a wheel which needs masking

A couple of teeny tiny red cross markings for an ambulance. A little trial and error required to get the Dspiae set to the correct dimension but, once that's done, it cuts lovely smooth, repeatable circles.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I made myself a little centring jig from a right angle clamped to the desk and clear plastic (from a CD case) with a cross etched on it. A bit like you get with their expensive metal version:

a Dspiae circle cutter and positioning template

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There's a live blog! (because of course there is)

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Barbury Castle is even on the cycling maps.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Went to see a Lysander earlier, which was nice.

The Aircraft Restoration Company's Lysander mkiii, parked up in a field in the south of France I mean just outside Abingdon.

Close up of the instrument panel with a flying helmet draped rakishly over the gunsight.

A lovely little Austin named Dorothy was the some light blue pinstriping.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Never in doubt. (that must have been one hell of a half time team talk)

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Boo's on Goldfinch Watch, making sure things don't get out of hand.

A black cat, on a garden chair, keeping an eye on things.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Checking reviews of wire mesh on Wickes. Probably get some of this stuff.

A screenshot of a review on the Wickes website. Two cats cuddle up in a nice looking catio.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Floodlit football, let's go!

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Marco Pantani's Bianchi Reparto Corse in Mercatone Uno colours, with 10-speed Campag Record.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Your daily pleasing bluesky juxtaposition, courtesy of @b3ta.com and @nataliehaynes.bsky.social .

An Ikea/Icarus image from b3ta and a Natalie Haynes post about flat pack armour.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today I happened across this, which was my grandad's. He'd have been about 15 when this was out.

The New Nature Book for Boys and Girls. There is a majestic looking elk on the cover.

The contents page (pictures in colour, don't you know). It's from 1931.

A photograph of a pigeon on a railway lamp, embossed CNR.

"Oswald," a pigeon-mascot of the Canadian National Railways. Knocked down and stunned by a freight van, it was picked up and nursed to health by a guard and now takes free rides with him all over the Canadian rail-way system.

#PigeonSky

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Never in doubt. Good to see Clarke and Clark shunning first initials on the back of their shirts, so you've got to really pay attention to that e.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's becoming trickier to convince ourselves this is a temporary stay in League Two, isn't it? Anyway, here we go for another season... Let's go! #STFC

Replica Rolex clock. It's just gone quarter to one.

The real Rolex clock. It's ten to three.

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ooh, a Privacy Update for my headphones. How exciting. Unclear why Sony need to know the names of what song or video I'm listening to, or who I'm phoning, in order to send audio to my ears... Get in the sea.

Details of the content you listen to with the Related Device (e.g. For music, song title and artist/creator name. For video content, title and channel name (if any)). SONY will not collect or access any communications that you have with your friends, contacts or any other people when using Sound Connect, except for records of usage for phone calls

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

. @alias-me.bsky.social went to the farm park today and met Percy, a wayward racing pigeon from Lancashire. #PigeonSky

A racing pigeon with two rings on his legs, standing on a wooden fence.

Percy the pigeon, in a run with some chickens.

An A4 poster with a photo of a pigeon.

My name is Percy.

Percy crash landed here back in June of 2025. He is "supposed" to be a racing pigeon but didn't quite complete his journey from France to Lancashire. After contacting his owner and several release attempts Percy has decided he wants to go into retirement and spend the rest of his time here, and we are happy to have him.

Percy looking inquisitive through some metal mesh.

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