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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 1h

Happy to help! Also pleased to know I'm not the first to think of it.

Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 19/10/2026

Tried getting into Combat Mission Battle for Normandy again over the weekend, as it should scratch my tabletop itch without needing an actual table. I want to like it, I really do, but having to micromanage every unit because the AI doesn't allow them even a scrap of initiative is so very tedious.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 13/10/2026

I should definitely have read the ingredients more closely before buying this innocent-looking can of pop from the world foods aisle.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 11/10/2026

This loony was as uninterested in the cows as they were of her.

A red and white collie with her tongue lolling out.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Saw some free-roaming coos on Hartlebury Common.

Three large-horned cows, one brown, one black and white and one tan and white.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

FAO: Birmingham and West Midlands people Birmingham Gaymers are doing another Blood on the Clocktower beginners' session www.tickettailor.com/events/birmi...

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Found the bit in my Amazon account where it lists what their algorithm knows about me, and it might as well just come out and call me autistic.

Screenshot from Amazon on what it knows about me:

"Systematically collecting complete book series"
"Building comprehensive craft supply collection"
"Studies railway history actively"

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 03/10/2026

I had a dream in which the BBC had started using Dire Straits' Money For Nothing style CGI in its coverage of sporting events, particularly cricket matches, and this had somehow spawned a long thread of terrible puns and dad jokes on here. Suspect I need to get offline for a bit.

Screencap from the music video to Dire Straits' Money for Nothing

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 30/09/2026

When someone sends me a document to print and it's on Letter rather than A4, this appears above my head.

The "social relationship minus minus" icon from The Sims

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Oh I finished my birb too. Got my next one already kitted up and ready to start tomorrow, because if I don't have a project on the go then there's only The Horrors. #cross-stitch

Completed cross stitch of a bird (possibly a song thrush) surrounded by flower and leaf accoutrements.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Nothing a massive Yorkshire pudding won't fix.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Proper vintage notice spotted in the Utilita Arena car park this afternoon. 1987!

A bright orange notice with black text, exhorting motorists to ensure they've locked their vehicle.

Close up of same showing its date of publication as 1987.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Coming along nicely. Black fabric was giving me some trouble at first but I've now got my eye in. #cross-stitch

Cross stitch work in progress of a bird - possibly a song thrush - surrounded by flower and leaf details on a black background.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 17/09/2026

Using leftover thread from the puffin kit I've come up with this. Don't really know what it is or what to do with it, but I'm pretty pleased with the effect. I might be able to turn it into a coaster, perhaps. #cross-stitch

Cross stitch of a multicoloured square at 45 degrees to the grid in the fabric.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Now framed and mounted on the appropriate wall. Forgive my picture hanging skills. #cross-stitch

Completed cross stitch of a puffin, mounted in a black and white frame.

Aforementioned framed puffin, alongside five other puffin artworks on an otherwise blank white wall.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 09/09/2026

My Instagram feed is full of people rightly calling out the latest AI image trend, but I've yet to see anyone actually participating in it. So I'm allowing myself a measure of smugness for properly curating who I follow.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/09/2026

Pork chops with pierogi and cabbage in a peppercorn sauce. We've gone very Central Europe this evening.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 07/09/2026

Might just pivot to full time photos of this one cat.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 01/09/2026

@puffingwilly.bsky.social came to pick me up from work so that he too could meet the cat.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Coach driver has gone full Dad Mode and threatened to pull over for an hour if people on speakerphone don't shut the fuck up.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Trying to deal with ongoing parental crises on top of a very hectic start to the academic year.

The "Darmok" meme template with the text "Pingu, when the phone rings and the kettle boils"

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 25/08/2026

I also met this decidedly unfriendly one. Just look at that visage of pure malevolence.

A very grumpy ginger cat lounging along a kerb.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 25/08/2026

And again this morning - came running across the garden and climbed the fence for some fuss, then followed me to the end of the street. 🥰

A tabby-and-white cat perched on a wooden fence.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 22/08/2026

These too. I'm sure there was also an aircraft one in this series.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 22/08/2026

I definitely had the bottom two of these, and I think the top left too.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Stitching done, just needs washing and framing. #cross-stitch

Completed cross stitch of a black and white husky sitting smiling in front of a lighthouse.

Reverse of the same, showing off my lovely neat stitches.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 16/08/2026

Yep! This sort of thing. 76 on one side, 5th Division insignia on the other.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 16/08/2026

Right. According to Hodges and Taylor, Infantry divisions in Italy followed the same marking scheme as those in NW Europe from mid-1943 onwards, so the attached diagram should apply. RAMC field ambulance units would therefore carry a 75, 76, or 77 on Black, and the insignia of the division.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Historical railways, modern railways, and historical tramways, to say nothing of the layers for narrow gauge and industrial railways as well. And it'll even label all the stations and other features, if you want. Phwoar.

Screenshot of the map shown on the aforementioned website, showing a chunk of West Yorkshire with the historical railway lines overlaid.

Screenshot of the map shown on the aforementioned website, showing a chunk of West Yorkshire with modern railway lines overlaid.

Screenshot of the map shown on the aforementioned website, showing a chunk of West Yorkshire with the historical tram systems overlaid.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Stumbled into a hotel bar for a drink and a view of Tintagel Castle and spotted this for sale on the bar. 🚩🚩🚩 Turns out he owns the place.

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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 14/08/2026

See also the Grusader, the Cralentine, and the Vant.

Photo of three model tanks with swapped turrets.

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