Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/06/2025June 28, 1914. A bad day in #History. A very bad day. 1193
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Softly the evening came with the sunset ... 3273
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025It's a dreadful world in many places and for many reasons. And sometimes, I'll be honest, I come close to losing hope. Then I look at this peaceful view and it calms me. Or anaesthetises me. I certainly feel better for it, if only for a while. Night, all. 4240
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I found historian Roger Morehouse in a pub in Piccadilly this evening. Honestly, you can't go anywhere for a quiet drink these days. 0160
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 31/05/2025My father died in the sea in Sardinia #OTD in 1974. I was with him and just survived the undercurrent. He was 58, I was 16. I've missed him every day since. I miss the conversations we never had. The moments we never shared. And I will remember him until the day I too die. 9340
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/05/2025And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair than the high cloudlets in the sky. 0121
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I shall never tire of living in this beautiful place. #Lavenham 0130
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I've been astride Tommy again for an hour and a half. 5110
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025A wonderful painting of #Southwold by a good - and very talented - friend of mine. 1190
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Interior of #Lavenham parish church today, with the US flag and memorial to the brave boys of the USAAF who served locally in #WW2 on display. #MemorialDay 3170
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A hidden gem. Columbine Hall, Stowupland. 📷 Julie Davis. #Suffolk 2241
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 20/05/2025#England is such a lovely country. Feel very blessed to call it home. 1140
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 09/05/2025So when for me life’s latest hour soft passes to its end, may glory, born of earth and heaven, the earth and heaven blend. Flooded with light the spirits float, with silent rapture glow, till where earth ends and heaven begins the soul shall scarcely know. 0170
Reposted by Nick Short 🇺🇦The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/05/2025The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York sat down with author, historian, and President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Andrej Lushnycky who sheds some light on the things Putin would rather you didn’t know about World War II.youtube.comWhat Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s ‘Victory Day’YouTube video by Kyiv Independent 512122
Reposted by Nick Short 🇺🇦Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025My latest for New Statesman: how Putin and the Patriarch's religion of war hails violence as the path to spiritual salvation. Putin's Russia may not be a Christian nation, but it is a religious one.newstatesman.comThe religious fever of Vladimir Putin’s Victory DayIn today’s Russia, state, Church, and War have become inseparable. 1414041
Reposted by Nick Short 🇺🇦Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Chinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warns www.politico.eu/article/chin...politico.euChinese cyber menace exceeds threat from Russia, Dutch spy chief warnsTop intel director tells POLITICO that Moscow’s new military buildup is concerning — and Donald Trump’s election has been a wake-up call for European spies. 063
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Allenstein in Ostpreußen, #Germany, as was. Olsztyn in Warmia, #Poland, as is. The latter, my 📷 from November 2016. #Europe #History 171
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 05/05/2025A bright morning in #Bath. The view from my flat. 1170
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 01/05/202526°C in #Bath today. Thinking of getting into my Borat-style swimming costume and going for a plunge. 270
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025There is no time like Spring, Like Spring that passes by; There is no life like Spring-life born to die, Piercing the sod, Clothing the uncouth clod, Hatched in the nest, Fledged on the windy bough, Strong on the wing: There is no time like Spring that passes by … 061
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025This should keep the beastly forriners at bay ... 5120
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Glorious #Suffolk on a glorious Sunday. 1121
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! This is HUGE news. Many congratulations to my good friend Jane Thynne, Philip Kerr's widow. I just cannot wait for this. I'm a massive Bernie fan. 5130
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Fancy Monty's motor? His 1936 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Touring Limousine is up for auction. HM King George VI, Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower were all driven in this car. Estimated sale price: £115,000 - £130,000. I've bought a lottery ticket! 0111
Reposted by Nick Short 🇺🇦Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/04/2025Great example for a health behavior where people will be like “everybody does X, it’s never going to change” until it actually does change within a rather short time span, from a historic perspective. 23923236
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Just back from my little morning ramble, and while there is unfortunately no sun on this Easter Monday, the earth smells fresh and wonderful after a much needed rain shower. Now back indoors for a nice cuppa tea. Hope you all have a good day. #simplepleasures 1200
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025My bro and s-in-l are on a cruise atm. Just got this message from him: "Formal night tonight, we can wear our medals. Butlins beaver club badge polished." You can always rely on a Short to maintain standards. 1130
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Pondering installing #Linux Mint on my Windows 10 laptop. Heard great things about it. But I'm such a technical numpty that even the easy-to-follow instructions defeat me. <sigh>media.tenor.coma man is using a dell computer while a woman looks onAlt: a man is using a dell computer while a woman looks on 550
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Astonishingly good series. Great performances all round, but Peter Barkworth gives a master class. 4111
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 01/04/2025After a successful visit to my lovely dental hygienist this morning, I'm now back at home celebrating with a full English. It's what she'd want. 290
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Killed in Action 80 Years Ago: Major General Maurice Rose, killed in Germany on March 30, 1945. Rose is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Limburg, Netherlands. He was 49 years old and was the highest ranking US officer KIA in Europe in #WW2. 3315
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 30/03/2025View from the front of my flat. #Bath is so delightful. 1180
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Well, what a lovely day. God is in His heaven, and I'm in #Taunton. It may well be the same place. #WeAreSomerset #Cricket 0121
Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social · 28/03/2025So excited to be back. Ever onwards! #WeAreSomerset #Cricket 0100