Merryn
@rentaquill
Writer. Excitable. 📗 FRGS Getting lost on purpose. ツ http://linktr.ee/merrynwalters
I'm not just chuffed or delighted, I am **ABSOLUTELY FIZZING** about the 🔥BANGING🔥 lineup at WHWF25 this year. And if **BLITZ MAPS** are your thing, well, I'll be talking about them briefly on Saturday morning. 😊 @almurray @James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod @GoalhangerPods
The UK’s No.1 WW2 festival is back. New speakers! @MrJamesMay, Sir Antony Beevor, @ShippersUnbound, @Churchill_Alex, @ClareMulley + @almurray & @James1940 and more! 🎖️ Talks, tanks, music, history like never before 📍12–14 Sept | Stowe 🎟️ wehavewaysfest.co.uk #WHWF25
VE done, VJ on the horizon, but there's an inspiring, short bit of D-Day reflection here from Maj Gen Ollie Kingsbury. Keeping it front of mind 🫡 [L] Robert ‘Bobby’ Johns KIA with 13 PARA on 23.7.1944 aged 16 - lied about his age to join up at 14. [R] 9 PARA dog handler Emile…
![rentaquill's tweet image. VE done, VJ on the horizon, but there's an inspiring, short bit of D-Day reflection here from Maj Gen Ollie Kingsbury. Keeping it front of mind 🫡
[L] Robert ‘Bobby’ Johns KIA with 13 PARA on 23.7.1944 aged 16 - lied about his age to join up at 14.
[R] 9 PARA dog handler Emile…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwJYsWSXEAIofWb.png)
![rentaquill's tweet image. VE done, VJ on the horizon, but there's an inspiring, short bit of D-Day reflection here from Maj Gen Ollie Kingsbury. Keeping it front of mind 🫡
[L] Robert ‘Bobby’ Johns KIA with 13 PARA on 23.7.1944 aged 16 - lied about his age to join up at 14.
[R] 9 PARA dog handler Emile…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwJYvHVXMAEgwAR.jpg)
We move to the less congested Friday. Sets you up for a lovely weekend. Tune in tomorrow and find out what this boat is all about.
🤪 It’s MOVE TO FRIDAY THURSDAY folks - we’re dropping this week’s episode tomorrow. And trust us, it’s not just @TheRestHistory that does Randy Reverends. Twiddle in tomorrow for more great #NewsoftheWar! @AndyAitcheson @rentaquill
We don’t often have guest editors on news of the war, but when we do we make them work. Can’t wait to chat to John!
Doing some research for @newsofthewar chat with @AndyAitcheson and @rentaquill One thing is clear doomscrolling in the 1940's was even more bleak than now! From the Belfast gazette: 'Man's heart cut out when he was alive' would certainly put one off the marmalade
Ponte Vecchio (view from) makes you grateful, the Nazis didn’t destroy the bit I’m standing on.
Rumours of XXX Corps making their mark in Florence are not to be underestimated.
There are times with #NewsoftheWar when the rabbit holes lead to a mysterious Alice-type wonderland, wallpapered with Second World War factemundos like you would not believe. 🐇🎩👍
In the latest ep of @newsofthewar we read a letter out from a Home Guard who’s got his knickers in a twist about whether the HG is light infantry, line infantry or guardsmen. I try to explain to @rentaquill the difference. HG: light role? Militia? Light infantry? Irregulars?…
Smashing thread from @HistoryBowsh: maps making sense of Quartered Safe Out Here. I have never come to terms with the literal transcription of Cumberland accents coming from the same pen that gave us the script for James Bond's Octopussy - George Macdonald Fraser. #pubtrivia101
With VJ Day approaching there is renewed focus on the Burma Campaign. My own @forgottenwarpod the @WeHaveWaysPod miniseries on Burma 45 & also a @BBCRadio4 dramatisation of George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here. I thought I would take a look at that…
No reason for posting this other than I’m drawn to the tidiness of it, and to the railway tunnel - it has something of the ‘coffee mug stain’ about it. RAGUSA. 1943, the work of 514 Field Survey Company; nice clean little thing.
Today's lesson as I'm trying to download ANOTHER 40GB backup - do NOT copy an old backup, back onto your hard drive.
This is where @Newsofthewar stops us in our tracks. One minute, it's all about a Reverend and horizontal refweshment. The next, we discover one of his sons was P/O Hopkin, who flew 6 sorties in a day in the BOB, and his other son, P/O Alan Hopkin, had just been KIA. Poor man. 😢
The thing you notice about the news during the war is how much normal life goes on. Hot on the heels of the Rector of Stiffkey, we came across Rev W ‘Harry’Hopkins of Blunham, Beds. Turns out Harry was a fan of pubs and women. Specifically a married woman, Hilda Robbs.…
.@restishistory - great stuff on the ropey Rector and a mention of the war memorial, but North Norfolk's a hotbed of scandal. Stiffkey's OTHER famous resident was of course Henry Williamson, he of Tarka and BNF fame- the ensignia is still there as I write...
Today's @TheRestHistory explores the maddest story of the 1930s - the extraordinary life of the RECTOR OF STIFFKEY. ⛪️ Self-styled Prostitutes' Padre 💋 Picked up 200 girls a year 🎡 Became a Blackpool beach attraction 🦁 Killed by a lion in Skegness ✝️ linktr.ee/restishistory
Missed a trick here. Should be MONTY SAYS WELAX.
It's a strong look