PO1 Naval Communicator in the RCN. Proud Grandpa. All opinions are my own.
Joined July 2010
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Jun 8
When my wife asks “Are we electing a Pope?”, it might be time to check the BBQ.
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May 31
100 billion marks! I am a billionaire! Well, 1923 Germany hyper inflation billionaire.
The latest edition to the coin/banknote collection.
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May 27
Wow, times have changed!
May 27
A Hansard remark from the MP and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, Robert Allan MP in 1959 on expanding the WRNS and why this is good for 'aspiring sailors' who 'cannot marry the Admirals daughter' but instead 'marry his flag lieutenant'.
Times have changed!
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May 26
The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT
ALT Pope Leo standing up in an airplane aisle holding a baseball bat
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May 25
Nova Scotia has a long history of relative obscurity😜 From the Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 13, 1666.
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May 10
A good news military story. Bravo!
A British Army specialist team parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha to deliver critical medical support after it was confirmed that one British national on the island was suspected of contracting Hantavirus
Brigadier Ed Cartwright gives details on situation
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9 May 2025
On this day in 1945 my hometown Leidschendam-Voorburg was liberated. Thank you Canada! The party just started! 🇨🇦🤝🇳🇱
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May 7
Taylor’s 20yr Tawny and Hawkins Cheezies. Starting my long weekend in style.
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May 7
Well now….
On May 7, 1977 at the G7 Summit in London, England, as dignitaries walked away, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau did a pirouette.
It became one of the most famous Canadian photos of the 1970s.
But it wasn't the Queen in that photo.
This is the story.
📸 Doug Ball
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ALT Pierre Trudeau in a formal interior setting, shown walking across an ornate room with several other people in formal attire. He wears a dark suit and appears mid-step, with one arm slightly raised. The room features patterned carpets, tall decorative columns, and framed artwork on the walls. Other individuals stand and converse in the background under bright interior lighting.
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Apr 25
My latest book purchase. Written by a Capt. Vieth who served at the tail end of the Crimean War then in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Part military, part sporting memoir he was an avid hunter and fisherman. He once had an accident with a muzzle loader close to wear I live.
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Apr 9
Reading this book about a RN MGB (Captained by an RCN Officer!) and their inaugural voyage started off well…5 days without power so no tea or coffee
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Apr 3
The Irish Dept. of Justice has issued an apology. Gen. De Chastelain is alive and well.
This is not true! My grandfather is alive and well :)
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Apr 3
After I joined the Reg F and was doing my PLQ, we were doing a scenario where I was “guarding” the gate of a FOB in a hostile area waiting for a “General” who was arriving. He arrived and said he was Gen. de Chastelain. I replied that he wasn’t, as I had met him twice.1/2
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Apr 3
The whole scenario hinged on this person coming into the FOB and detonating a bomb as part of the exercise. The instructors had to re-start the scenario and told me to let this person in next time 2/2.
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