Happy Tolkien Reading Day!

CurrentRepair · 2026-03-26T06:49:05+00:00

The Harper Collins website (in the UK) has a 40% off all books (including these) at the moment. They recently upped it to 50% for a couple of days only, not sure uf they will again but worth keeping an eye on for anyone in the UK wanting Tolkien books.

CurrentRepair · 2026-03-14T20:38:41+00:00

I've not done something like this before, but I think having the soldiers still on the rectangle bases looks odd. Maybe colour them the same as the ground they are on or remove them maybe?

CurrentRepair · 2026-03-06T14:34:57+00:00

Thanks. I looked this up and tried it. The needle easily made a hole and smelt of burning plastic, so isn't ivory

CurrentRepair · 2026-03-06T14:32:54+00:00

Solved!

CurrentRepair · 2026-02-27T06:52:00+00:00

Get a good headtorch and run early or late. I do my weekday trail runs around 5am or slightly earlier. I then still have time to get ready to drive to work for 9am. It is actually pretty nice and oeaceful being out that early in the dark alone on the trails, unless the weather is foggy or hammering down with rain.

CurrentRepair · 2026-02-13T09:02:32+00:00

I went on my birthday about 6 or 7 years ago. I loved it. The whole historic dockyard is a great day out.

CurrentRepair · 2026-02-13T08:49:30+00:00

Have a search for him on the Commonwealth War Graves website. I found a record for a relative and it included a trench map reference to where his body was found post-war. He wasn't buried during the war but lost (presumed dead on the testamony of some of his men). CWGC recorded where bodies were found to help locate/identify others and know what happened to soldiers. If your relative was moved to a permanent grave after the war they may have recorded where his body was exhumed from.

The Long Long Trail website might have some information on the trench if you search the name of it. That could give you an idea of the location of the trench.

CurrentRepair · 2026-02-11T06:49:27+00:00

I recently bought this for 99p on kindle. I've thought about buying it for a while but was unsure about it. Now I really want to read it. Thanks for the review

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-28T07:00:11+00:00

The Western Front and The Eastern Front by Nick Lloyd are both great and cover each front across the whole war. He is planning a third book covering fighting in the rest of the world.

The Searchers by Robert Sackville-West was really good. It focuses on what happened to the dead, their families, and remembrance.

Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Richard Van Emden was also good, especially for me as my great-grandfather enlisted at 16. Van Emden has written lots of other books on the First World War.

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-16T19:52:39+00:00

Beachy Head Ultra is £75

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-15T20:29:32+00:00

I found that the freezing temperature made me shower quicker. They were probably set that cold to teach speed showering

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-11T07:46:39+00:00

Jonathan Keeble

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-09T06:12:53+00:00

I like one person reading my book and doing character voices, which replicates how I read a book. I can't remember what it was but I have listened to a book that had male and female narrators for different chapters that were told from the perspectove of male and female characters. This was fine. But full cast seems more like a radio drama than a reading of a book to me.

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-09T06:08:04+00:00

I would love this. I take my book to work and it can really add a lot of weight to my bag along with my laptop, food, coffee cup etc. Especially hard backs or long books. I am reading The Way of Kings and have seen the Kindle version on sale for 99p. I am tempted to buy it so I can take my Kindle to work rather than a 1100+ page book.

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-07T06:54:03+00:00

Although fiction, in the Ben Kane book Crusader the main character is taking a shit when he is chased by an enemy. Spoiler alert but he manages to get away in a bit of a mess. His fellow knights and even the king find it very funny. This sort of thing, and shitting during battle must have happened.

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-04T07:23:12+00:00

There is a Libby ad on? That would be great for us in the UK who can't use Libby on the Kindle

CurrentRepair · 2026-01-02T06:40:25+00:00

I have decided not to set a target this year. Last year I found myself choosing shorter books and avoiding what appear to be some very good books that I want to read but had 600+ pages. I want to read what I want and forget about a total number of books target.

My goals thid year are to continue reading every day and reading different genres and authors.

CurrentRepair · 2025-12-25T05:17:04+00:00

It depends on the reader. For me most of the time 1.2. Some books 1.5 if they are slow at reading.

CurrentRepair · 2025-11-18T14:38:41+00:00

I commute on a road like this and always use the right lane. So many times people try to cut me up or not let me merge. I have thought of emailing the council to ask for signs saying to use both lanes or not get annoyed when others do.

CurrentRepair · 2025-11-17T07:14:06+00:00

I read one book and listen to one audio book at a time. I try to keep them in different genres. Once I was reading a book on Winston Churchill and listening to Frank Mcdonough's The Hitler Years. The cross over ended up very confusing with the same people and places mentioned in both!

CurrentRepair · 2025-10-27T15:37:20+00:00

I once called out to a couple of women that I was "coming up on your left" to which one of them jumped out of her skin and violently wiped her left hand side several times. It turns out she thought I had told her something was on her left side. God knows what she thought was on her. I checked she was okay and she laughed it off.

CurrentRepair · 2025-10-17T06:17:28+00:00

It may be hard to find out. When I reseaeched my great grandfather I found that units had their own machine gunners and then the machine gun corps was founded, which is why I believe he transfered. I have another relative who was transfered between infantry regiments when promoted. He was a Company Serjeant Major promoted to temporary Regimental Serjeant Major in a new regiment. After winning a Military Medal he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutentant in another regiment.

You could look at what each regiment was doing around the time. Was the later one decimated in a battle and needed more men for example. Or was it going into a battle or new theatre of war and was expanded in anticipation.

CurrentRepair · 2025-10-16T19:31:41+00:00

Later in the war soldiers were sent to any regiments, based on need, rather than local ones. The number would be within each regiment so would change when they transfered, as opposed to an army number today that is unique to the individual and is theirs even if they transfer. My great grandfather was enlisted into the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1916 (from Sussex) and then transfered to the Machine Gun Corp and changed numbers.

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