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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Superb @daraobriain.bsky.social Re:Creation show at Manchester Opera House. Best comedy gig this year. But Lordy, the dreams afterwards...😂 #IfYouKnowYouKnow

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I shall translate: All welcome. Pies, no jus, only gravy. With lumps. Northern style. #WeHaveWays #NWpubMeet

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Best wishes to our Northern IC chum Erik who was injured returning from WHW Fest whilst trying to perform aerobatics in a Landie. We will of course be hearing about this endlessly at the Northern IC Pub meets. Get well soon Steak Donkey. #WeHaveWays

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A26C Invader Built an Airfix one as a kid. Could be in love. #DuxfordAirshows #WE2 #AvGeek

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Achtung Hurricane! Very good to see the Polish Heritage Flight back in the air! Long awaited.👏 #Duxford #WW2 #AvGeek

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This weekend marks 35 Years attending Duxford airshows. Travelling from Aberdeen or NW England. And 30 Years as a Sally B supporter. A happy place. Blue skies, warbirds. WNTL? #DuxfordAirshows #WW2 #AvGeek

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s simply the best WW2 warbirds weekend of the year. Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow. You know what you have to do #Duxford #BattleOfBritain #WW2

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Unbelievably/worryingly happy to come across extended unused Battle of Britain film footage at the superb RAF Museum Hendon. My full Battle of Britain nerdiness confirmed. #Avgeek #WW2 #BattleofBritain

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

You know it's almost Duxford Battle of Britain airshow weekend when you're watching the weather app hourly. Last year's flypast was great BUT 15 Spitfires and 8 Hurricanes to be flying this weekend. I may need to lie down in a darkened room. #WW2 #AvGeek #Duxford

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's beginning to feel a lot like ....🎄🎅🏻🎄 Ho ho ho.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Happiness is a rare and very welcome evening of nothingness and this...another superb edition. Under Ben Dunnell's stewardship, Aeroplane has become that rarity..a must have print magazine that you know is worth every penny of the subscription. #Aeroplane #Avgeek @bdaviation.bsky.social

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Sorting through a mahoosive pile of books acquired/given over the last few years. Fellow BoB film nerds will look at this and bemoan the lack of a 110 in the film.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

More sorting of books and these photos drop out.....both captured Luftwaffe. Fw189 at RAE in Oct 1945, no info on the rather sad 111.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Sorting out some piles of,well, piles of books. Came across these RAF Yearbooks. The memory of the excitement of junior me visiting the RAF recruitment office to pick one up. And the Wilf Hardy covers...sigh. #RAF

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Great episode - for memoirs I’d like to nominate ‘A Thousand Shall Fall’ by Murray Peden. He was a Canadian pilot with 214 Squadron, flying Stirlings and later Flying Fortresses as part of 100 Group. It’s fantastic and think it’s still available free on Audible if you’re a subscriber.

Book cover featuring artwork of a 4-engined Stirling bomber at sunset.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Truly exceptional day at the Festival of the Unexceptional! Massive nostalgia fest in a very relaxed gathering, over 1000 cars. Superb. @smithandsniff.bsky.social pod recording and much else from the kings of motoring trivia the proverbial oil soaked cherry on the ordinary auto's cake. #FOTU

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Another fantastic thread by Jamie. Must confess to a strange fascination with the Manc..A failure in its own right but led to the superb Lancaster. Many moons ago, had this Diverse Images (now Staples & Vine) signed by a vet who whilst loathing the unreliability,had a grudging affection for it.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just had my BlueSky age verification using facial scan. It took only a few seconds to decide I was old and crinkly. I could be offended. 😂

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Working at home. Long day. Little break. Leans back and thinks of Spitfires. Sigh. Bring on the Duxford BoB show...

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The Sunday morning walk WAS going so well....#GoldieMudTime

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Must say, the replacement for the Red Arrows Hawk is a little chunky. As seen from my sofa c/o watchPlanesTV.com #RIAT2025

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Hugely recommend following Jamie, posts on WW2 aviation are always interesting and usually revealing. #WW2 #Avgeek

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Doggo noted my kind offer of an early morning pre-heatwave walk and promptly advised she has the RSPCA on speed dial and instead wants gravy bones in bed. On a loser here. #LazySunday

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There are many innocents who attended We Have Ways Fest 2023 who are still in therapy or simply in denial after the last public viewing of THOSE trousers. A huge amount was however raised for charity..but...but..the psychological impact...Lordy. Rock on Mr W...

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

For Battle of Britain film nerds (ok, me), it is finally back on terrestrial tv without ads. BBC2 today. #RepeatPlease

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If you're a WW2 nerd, love books and on your leisure travels, it is a scientific fact that it is impossible to pass a bookshop without looking at the military history section. #WaterstonesSpotting #WW2

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I do prefer this upgrade to the normal morning alarm. No snooze facility though.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Celebration break away. To console Mrs F for many years enduring me. Staying in a lovely hotel. Food liked by French tyre manufacturer. Mais zut alors. Pas de baked beans! @guywalters.bsky.social would be ecstatic. I am inconsolable.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Returning back from Scotland. Tad rainy. Oooh, a bookshop! It is of course impossible to walk past any bookshop without a quick perusal. These especially caught my eye, look rather good, must haves by @spitfirefilly.bsky.social and @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social #WW2

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Threats from the corrupt convicted felon had absolutely no impact. And Manchester loved him for it. Superb 2nd Manchester concert. The Boss.

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Night of 16th-17th May 1943. Lancasters of 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams using the innovative ‘bouncing’ Upkeep mine. That story has been covered many times, but much less well known is the later development of a similar German bomb, codenamed ‘Kurt’. 🧵1/7

‘Operation Chastise’ by Robert Taylor, showing a hit by ‘Dinghy’ Young’s Lancaster on the Möhne Dam at 00:40 on 17th May 1943.
📷 aces-high.com

(Artwork showing a 4-engined bomber climbing away from a dam, a plume of water rising behind amid flak bursts)

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Remember first encountering Eddie Jordan holding court at Silverstone 2010 with a small crowd absolutely spellbound in his presence. Including me. A true character and will be sorely missed. 🙏 Eddie Jordan obituary: reliably colourful Formula 1 team owner www.thetimes.com/article/dfb2...

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Eddie Jordan obituary: reliably colourful Formula 1 team owner

Entrepreneur who took a chance on a young Michael Schumacher and whose team challenged F1’s big names despite being a minnow in motorsport’s ‘Piranha Club’

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Vive le Canada! 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧 True allies.

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

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IdleMrB @idlemrb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A difficult thread but worth reading. There’s something about the photographs, they are so clear and well composed. The care someone took capturing this atrocity is chilling.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Being rather harsh on fifth and sixth graders.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BREAKING: Kia’s official Instagram account in Norway just posted this..

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A little timeline cleanser. Doggo debating what Cornish wildlife to bark at today.

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Athol Forbes 🇺🇦 @strangelyhappy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Apple created an emoji for me. Consenus so far is this is the character that always dies first in the disaster movie when the volcano erupts/earthquake/ice age returns/aliens land etc. Oh well, back to the ginger cat.