Speak to the RAF museum.
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Hey that’s a great idea Scoop. I have his RAF discharge document as well I should dig up
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I am doing a write up on the film, on the what are we watching thred. I recommend the film 6 out of a possible five stars! I learnt a lot about the training and the attack I did not know.
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The fly by of the Lancaster early in the trailer gave me goose bumps
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The whole film will.
I named my Black Lab “Gibson” as homage to the Squadron Leader and his dog.
And I’m an American.
Enjoy the film.
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that looks like the landing site of most of my helicopters 
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As hard as that clay was, I think your chopper would leave less of a dent. That stuff has the weight and consistency of cold cream butter or cheese. That was tough digging. Still. renting or even buying a digger would make the job too expensive, even if it’d go a heck of a lot faster. I had some good, tough exercise digging that pit.
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you are the bomb schurem( I think that’s a compliment lol)
When my son layed concrete in our garage I dug up and hauled, in a wheel barrel, clay heavy soil. Best condition I’d been in in a long long time 
My hockey buddies asked me what my workout regime looked like
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When we moved to NC, I dug a 3 foot hole for a basketball hoop for the kids. Embarrassingly, it took hours to dig through the clay…with the kids asking why it’s taking so long…
Good on ya shurem
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Whilst I appreciate hard, honest labour… I am lucky to have a neighbour with a small 2.5t excavator that I can borrow 
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That’s quite the impact crater 
My troursers certainly looked like I ran through mud after this little foto tour on my bike. For some reason I didn’t anticipate thunderstorms 
Took a few of my favourite photos of blooming rapeseed fields though, I’ll get around to sharing my favourite one in the coming weeks. My backlog is pretty large at this point and I like to mix it up a little bit. @komemiute can probably guess which one I am talking about 
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Sun Spots
Just barely visible in this photo I captured of the Sun, taken through a cloud of wildfire ash that wafted over from the west, are sunspots. You’ll have to click and expand it to just see them, I hope they are not loss to compression from the upload.
I was able to confirm they are sunspots via this photo labelled on EarthSky.org from NASA. It is rotated 90° CCW from how mine is. So in my photo you will see AR3310 at the upper left, and the cluster around AR3302 in the bottom right.
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That is very cool to see. Usually you need filters to get results like this. I guess you can call the ash some sort of “filter”.
Black headed gull in winter:
Went to a medieval festival yesterday. Got up at six o’clock, cycled 40km to a farm near Xanten where I met up with family for breakfast (thankfully they picked up my camera bag the previous day) then we all cycled to the festival to spend the day there. I cycled back around 21:30h and got home just before 23:00h with 90km on the clock.
Here’s a Knight:
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I had thought to type out that I had a qausi- or faux- ND filter, but forgot to add that in. All natural grey enhancer?
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This is my friend, Mr. Grackle. Despite looking appalled to be on camera, he’s actually upset that there are no sexy singles in his area - and that all those ads were a total lie. The local reservoir only has another men. Still, he made sure to be open, available and heard!
While not appreciative of me getting too close and cramping his style, he would actually follow me if I walked to another of his favorite perches so long as I gave him a bit of space. So I have lots of photos of him to go through taken with both the 70-200 one day, and the 100-400 another. He seemed to like the camera attention.
I grabbed the 18-45 and some bird seed to see if I could get him to perch on my hand for a photo, but food isn’t in his priorities right now.
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Fantastic shots mate, absolutely gorgeous!
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