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Jim Toms

@jim09ea63.bsky.social

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A normal bloke, happy family guy. With a few interests (planes, trains, tanks etc), oh, & an MBA from @uniofleicester. I was a soldier once. @09EA63 on the bird app if it's still going, and on Insta

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 2h

Concert party on standby...

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, I thought this was going to be one of those old fashioned illnessnes like 'croup' or something, which are only referred to in 'hushed tones' as if they were something terrible to behold. Not something as mundane as allergic to Battledress...

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 4h

Some more #TankTuesday stuff for you - this time from 2007, which was themed 'All-American Armour' (but I had to include the Comet in this little montage). I think this was the last time we punters were able to get up this close to the action as by the next event, the barriers were in place

The Comet - the ultimate British tank of the war (the Centurion being too late to see active service)

This M4 is now masquerading with a Hollywood alter ego of course (which I think is a bit of a shame really)

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 4h

They didn't need the Landrover halftrack thingy towing the bowser around that year, dampening down the dust, that's for shizzle

Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 5h

Nicked from elsewhere obvs...

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 7h

Ta muchly

Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 7h

It's been a while since I've done #TankTuesday - all the way back to 2006's TankFest which was a very wet one from memory. Note this was in the old arena, where you felt much more up close and personal (I really dislike the Kuwait arena as you're too far away now)

Challenger 1 cresting - a fellow Gulf War veteran

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 8h

Who ya gonna call

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 10h

The eye of Sauron is approaching I fear - as one who is in that upper tax tier (just about), I think I am going to be hammered, as well as not too far off retirement - double whammy.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 1d

Siegfried Sassoon (1917)

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 1d

Spot on

Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 1d

My first & favourite Bond girl

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😍😍😍

Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 2d

Seconded

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 2d

Haven’t a scooby sorry

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

“Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points”

Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky

"... it must be hard, being the best. You're not allowed to stop. You can only be beaten, and you're too proud ever to lose. Pride! You've turned it into a terrible strength, but it eats away at you."

Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 2d

Hold….

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

PSA.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 2d

1 Nov 1914 // Armoured cruiser HMS Good Hope, flagship of Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock, was sunk by sustained gunfire from German cruiser Scharnhorst off central Chile during the Battle of Coronel. She went down with all hands: 926 men. (Imperial War Museum Q 38966) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

Royal Navy cruiser HMS Good Hope. Image: Imperial War Museum Q 38966.

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 2d

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 3d

It still feels weird to have been one of the cool kids who was in at the beginning

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 3d

Yoinks
And I was here when there was just over 250k of us!!

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

Blimey! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 40 MILLION!! 👏

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 4d

As a lad from Lancashire Witch country it should be a carved out turnip (effort needed) then up Pendle Hill to search for Old Demdike et al. My dad learned his trade from a descendant of Alice Nutter 🧙
#Witches

Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 4d

Pre empting the one sausage question obviously

Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 5d

Plus I have to go back up there tomorrow for the last day training & assessment (Comms Tactical Advisor role)

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Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social · 5d

Lucky I found a place that was still open & we’d finished the day slightly early as well. Didn’t want to risk hitting the motorway with a dodgy tyre 🛞 even though I had re inflated it

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