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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Back to overcast here today, though still quite bright

[BR14]

Morning all

3 hours into a working invoicing day. Nice sunrise over Portland Bill and some high level clouds coming in over the Cobb

Morning denizens

Back to overcast here today, though still quite bright

Morning all, clear blue and king billy here again

[mudskipper]

Beautiful day here in the sunny South. First topless drive of the year this morning.

[NickFitz]

Beautiful day here in the sunny South. First topless drive of the year this morning.

Driving to Australia?

[NickFitz]

I've started the process of renewing my passport, which I find expired ten years ago come July. I haven't actually left the country this millennium.

It's so we can go to visit the grave of my great uncle, who was killed in the Great War and is buried at Windy Corner, Cuinchy, on the 100th anniversary of his death in April

[DaveB]

Afternoon all.

Bike ride out of the way early. Trip to the tip done to dispose of assorted junk. Pizza for lunch while I wait for the chap coming to look at a bike I'm selling. Off to look a bathrooms this afternoon. What fun.

[NickFitz]

Off to look a bathrooms this afternoon. What fun.

Don't look at mine, it's in a right state

[xoggoth]

First topless drive of the year this morning

I missed that. Darn it.

[NickFitz]

It's so we can go to visit the grave of my great uncle, who was killed in the Great War and is buried at Windy Corner, Cuinchy, on the 100th anniversary of his death in April

And that led me into much Googling and slinging £3.50 at the National Archives for scans of the Battalion Diary, with the result that I've gone from knowing what date he was killed and where he was buried to knowing when he was probably killed to within a couple of hours, and where to within a radius of half a mile or so.

He was a private so he doesn't get mentioned by name or anything, being lumped in with "heavy casualties", but they didn't move around much after they were ordered to battle positions at 4:45am, and Google Books came up with a map from a scholarly work showing all the locations mentioned - farms, trenches, and so on - in the immediate vicinity of that specific part of the wider battle, as it turned out to be a crucial turning point in the war.

[BR14]

And that led me into much Googling and slinging £3.50 at the National Archives for scans of the Battalion Diary, with the result that I've gone from knowing what date he was killed and where he was buried to knowing when he was probably killed to within a couple of hours, and where to within a radius of half a mile or so.

He was a private so he doesn't get mentioned by name or anything, being lumped in with "heavy casualties", but they didn't move around much after they were ordered to battle positions at 4:45am, and Google Books came up with a map from a scholarly work showing all the locations mentioned - farms, trenches, and so on - in the immediate vicinity of that specific part of the wider battle, as it turned out to be a crucial turning point in the war.

oh, dear