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There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in.
Nick Short 🇺🇦
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Nick Short 🇺🇦
@nickfshort
Cricket, classic cars, history, travel, photography & art. Quondam spare part at the Minimax Fire Extinguisher Company. Blocked by @mfa_russia.
#славаУкраїні!
- I still occasionally pinch myself, even after all these years, when visiting places behind the former Iron Curtain. For instance, this is a building in #Riga I never thought in my worst nightmare I would ever enter: the KGB building. And it's as bad as I feared.
- What an image.Red Flanders poppies are projected onto the Sydney Opera House on Remembrance Day in Sydney, Australia.
- 49 years ago today my father lost his life while we were on holiday on Sardinia. We'd both gone swimming in the sea. Unknown to us, there was a strong undercurrent. He didn't make it back. I did, just. He was 58, I was 16. I've missed him so very much. Dad with my older bro.
- I received a parking ticket for £100 today for parking in a car park in Cornwall on Christmas Day - for 1 hour - to visit a local church. I clearly rather naively assumed parking would be free on Christmas Day, a bank holiday. My fault. But I still feel a tad aggrieved. So there.
- This striking image is Sub-Lt John Haberfield of the Royal NZ Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Indomitable. Six days after this photograph was taken, he was shot down and taken prisoner by the Japanese. He was murdered by being beheaded on Changi beach on July 31, 1945. He was 26.
- Replying to @nickfshortAnd if you think today's #Russia is incapable of repeating this actions, think again as the people if that country itself. And also of the lands they have subsequently invaded, occupied and terrorised. Never forget: #RussialsATerroristState
- Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear Exclusive: France and Germany evaded arms embargo to sell weapons to Russia
- Probably upset when he realised he'd married Dennis Waterman too.25 July 1554. Mary I married Philip II of Spain in Winchester Cathedral. He’d only met her 2 days before after his arrival from Spain. Parliament insisted that Philip should not be formally crowned as King of England, something that greatly offended him.
