What have you been Watching?

A new YouTube notice came in today for History Hit with Historian Dan Snow, and to my stunned surprise it featured a recent moment in the history of my state that made me very proud. It showcases the accidental archaeological find of a mass grave of soldiers from the UK and US at the site of the Battle of Camden, a colossal loss for American forces in the American Revolution. If you have any interest in forensic anthropology, the history of the common soldiers, and mostly US/UK relations and the deep respect many in my state have for the people of the UK, I highly recommend it.

It’s 36 minutes long, so I don’t want to mess up anything by linking it, but here’s the title:
Forgotten Revolutionary War Battlefield Skeletons Discovered, Battle of Camden on the History Hit channel with Dan Snow on YouTube.

I watched the movie John Wick 4 last night , he killed more people in it than Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Segal did in all their movies put together ☹️☹️

This week I've been mainly watching Norfolk Broads Vlogs and wishing I was there rather than here.

I also came across an official 'What to do in a nuclear attack'(UK) broadcast from 1980. Not sure if it ever got aired but my god they didn't hold back.

Hide your family and pets behind an upturned sofa for 2 weeks. Yeah that should do it!

If it ever happened I want one to land on my head.

P.S. 

The last few days I've been watching 'Walk With Me Tim' on youtube.

I highly recomend it if you like to watch someone walking around with a camera (sometimes with his wife) to destinations thoughout the world.

He/they do lots of the UK including seaside resorts, Butlins, Pontins, Haven, Centre Parks, Clacton, Southend, Blackpool, Scarborough, Skeggy, Norfolk Broads, etc.

Piers, Castles, Chip shops.

Pathos in Cypress, Gibralter, Crete, etc. Also some in the U.S. of A, I think.

I've been to many of these places and it's great to see (although many have changed dramatically over the years) certain things that I remember.

Some including holiday camps (mainly Pontins) from when I was a kid. When we used to go to them they were near to brand new but now some look a bit rundown.

I get the feeling though that with investment they might be on their way back. Maybe more of a cheap fun 3 or 4 days get away. Why not.

In Pathos they showed the Pelican that's usually outside of the Pelican restuarant. If you've been there you've probably seen it.

If it's the same one as I saw in 2006 it must be getting on a bit.

I remember riding down the slope next to the Grand Hotel in Scarborough on me bike just before our play-off semi final. That's about all I can remember, and the sea of course.

In my retirement I now fancy visiting all the seaside resorts and having a fish & chips in all of them.

I'm seagul wise (canvey) btw, the pesky little so and so's. Not so little in Blackpool of course, they're ginormous.

That is what we had to live with back in the cold war days,probably why our generation was cocky and rebellious.The reason I have a deep felt hatred of communism in any form.Saw what was happening to those poor people in the Warsaw Pact.Makes me shudder to think our country may be going that way.

I live in a former socialist state although it never was Warsaw Pact.  Most people here of my age are wont to say "it was better under Tito" which is possibly true so long as you didn't disagree with him.   Until recently the majority held the opinion that Tudjman and his Croatian Oligarchs and their Bosnian gangsters have stolen everything. These days, the old corruption barons have mostly been mopped up by the EU and things are progressing as well as could be expected. Not so in neighbouring Hungary where they are still in a Warsaw pact situation only the politicos pretend to be democrats ... Putin style.   

No, surely The Isle of Sheppey has first dibs on the first bomb to drop? And the second, and the third...

Shawshank Redemption too.