Mike Meakin

@honeymoon250 Wood plane used for skimming and smoothing wood surfaces used in wood work at school.

People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is?

@CliveWardauthor Had a SSM driver with a surname called Gas. Sqn personnel were not too happy when on exercise the SSM repeatedly called out his name. In those days we had an abudance of CS Gas portfires. Some NCOs got a kick out of sticking them under your nose if slow donning respirators.

VETERANS IN THE WORKPLACE One of the main things you’ll notice straight away in the workplace is that you speak a different language to your civvy co-workers. For instance, saying Ease Springs, GAS… GAS… GAS… after a loud fart won’t mean anything to them. They’ll stand there amazed with your list of phrases for going to the toilet, ‘Right I’m going for a sh*t… I’m off for a dump… or I’m off to give birth.’ When your stapler stops working, and you carry out stoppage drills, ‘Stapler stops, on looking inside…’ They’ll think you’ve totally lost it! Don’t worry, they’ll get used to these phrases, in fact some of them might even be adopted by them over the next few years. My advice at the beginning is to print off a military acronyms list, so your co-workers can understand you. A phonetic alphabet chart wouldn’t go amiss. The last thing you want to hear in the office is S for sugar instead of Sierra and M for Mother instead of Mike, it will really annoy the sh*t out of you. Don’t even bother with the ‘at the end of the day we’ve got to make sure that we are singing off the same song-sheet’. If push comes to shove, we’ve got to be hot-to-trot from the word "go". It’s a whole new ball game. We need to run a tight ship, and all that b*ll*cks. Your co-workers will think you’re nuts. Another good piece of advice is, don’t take your sense of humour too far. It could land you in trouble. At the beginning, take it easy, a few c*ck jokes will be ok, but what was funny and accepted in the military, will not have the same effect at work. For instance, leaving human t*rds in amusing places around the workplace won’t be appreciated by your colleagues. You need to build up to something like that. Warning! If easily offended, I really do advise you not to read this book. ENDEX book a must read for all Military… clivewardauthor.com UK kindle also available in paperback amazon.co.uk/EndEx-Clive-Wa…

@clark_aviation They were fast! Great experience I really enjoyed using them when stationed in Germany. Preferred to using them to ferries from Ostende /Zeebrugge. I was amazed how many cars, trucks and coaches would fit on one. Similar to using the La Shuttle before the tunnel was built.

Noisy, bumpy and prone to cancellations due to the weather, but was their ever a more dramatic way an ordinary passenger could cross the English Channel? The SRN-4 hovercraft, a British invention that didn't quite meet its early promise.

@WeCopyYouDown @clark_aviation @HoverMuseum Well worth a visit

@clark_aviation Get down to an open day @HoverMuseum in Lee-On-Solent and see and marvel at the huge size of the "SRN-4 Beast"

@conrad_leo21225 @CliveWardauthor Loved mine, able to reload magazine and the bullets are fairly accurate at short range. Never got a JohnnySeven 😟

@CliveWardauthor Yes, but even in toyland, you can't beat the real thing! Imagine the fortune Airfix are missing out on if they started selling these again.

BRING BACK THE JOHNNY SEVEN They rave on about bringing back the SLR, what about the good old Johnny seven, no enemy had a chance when armed with this ultimate killing weapon! People of a certain age will remember the Johnny seven, the 60’s toy everyone wanted. I asked my mum for one of these for Christmas. My mum said it was not an appropriate toy for a lad of your age. So, I signed up to join the Army as soon as I was 15. To be honest none of the kids had one where we lived. We’d stare through the window at the local toy shop for ages. We had to make do with our pretend sten guns, two bits of wood nailed together either playing out in the street or in our gardens and bedrooms shooting up our 8th Army toy soldiers. Nope all I got Christmas morning was an empty box, my mum told me it was a special edition Action Man Deserter...... We were that poor me and my sister had to share one roller skate each. All I could do was dream. I Begged and begged three years in a row for a Johnny Seven. Thinking back, I think that’s when my PTSD started. Then on Christmas day 1966 enter stepdad number 3 of 7 I got one. My best toy ever. I had one, my stepdad soon regretted it as I would ambush him every chance I got, from the stairs as he entered the house, from my bedroom window when he was in the garden ‘you’re not my dad you t*sser’ And all my mother did was just sit there laughing her t*ts off. ‘I f*ckin’ told you not to buy it him he’s mental.’ Everything changed though three days after Christmas when I accidentally got mum in the face. Those little white plastic projectile rounds hurt. ‘Right, that’s it, its f*ckin going’ said mum followed by a slap round the lughole. I was gutted when it was taken away, it was back to my sh*tty pretend sten and the 8th army soldiers. I suppose it was the same years later when they took away the SLR and replaced it with the sh*tty SA80. Yes, the J7 was by far the best toy around in its day, if you were lucky or rich enough to have one you were king of the streets. They cost around £4 back in the 60s’, which was more than a week’s wages for some. You can get one on eBay for £600 and upwards today. They would never be allowed to sell something like this nowadays, too many snowflakes, or, if you pointed the J7 out of your bedroom window you’d be blasted by your local Police armed response unit. URBAN MYTH I have inside information that the last Johnny Seven, along with the Heckler & Koch MP5 machine guns, were used for real on the Iranian embassy siege. Bring back the JOHNNY SEVEN Please share More in BULLIES AND BULLSHIT 2 Warning! If easily offended, I really do advise you not to read this book. clivewardauthor.com Available on amazon amazon.co.uk/Bullies-Bullsh…

@SarahWoods66 @PhilLoder My Dad when he served in the Military would have been then 8 Squadron RE from Longmoor Military Railway in the 1960s - later 8 Squadron RCT did maintenance work on the Railway. He was away a lot, he loved it.

Easter Monday morning train across the crossing filmed from behind the gate

@JiriDucati @VeteranIrish Had the top two was partial to the wooden furniture

No cheating….😁

@VeteranIrish Like you had to sleep with one for years in your sleeping bag. Other strange experience how often I took mine in a bank and the bank staff didn’t batter an eyelid when I did it.

@CliveWardauthor Would that happen today?😂

NEWRY OP BANNER 77 June 1977, I arrived in Newry and joined back up with my platoon, the accommodation was a joke, 32 squaddies crammed into an area the size of a squash court, to get that many blokes in the bunk beds were 3 and 4 beds high! I’ll give you one guess where I ended up? The top bunk “what a surprise” climbing up there was like climbing Mount Everest, plus you had to avoid the dead legs and punches from the guys trying to sleep after coming off duty. Once up there you were safe that space was yours. It did have its disadvantages, one was falling out of bed ‘ouch’ we weren’t talking a cut lip here, more like a fractured skull, then there was sea sickness, sea sickness you may ask! Think about it, if someone is having a quiet discrete Uncle Frank on the bottom bunk, in the bunk above the guy feels a gentle rocking; it may even help him sleep! The guy above him “Me” is being swung around like he’s in a force 12 gale. Oh, and the other disadvantage of being on the top bunk is p*ssing the bed, if you were sleeping had a weak bladder and accidently p*ssed the bed every f**ker got it. I did it once, but luckily, I got away with it, the guy below me woke up, jumped out of bed wet through, someone asked him what was up, he said “I think I’m coming down with some sort of fever I’m wet through with sweat” no mate I’ve just p*ssed all over you!! It must have been catching because the other guy below him thought whatever it was the guy above him had, they might have caught it as well. After a few days I was starting to fit in you had to or your life wouldn’t be worth living, these guys had already done 3 months in this environment, imagine it 32 infantry men packed together like sardines, their stress levels were sky high there was always somebody farting, burping, snoring, always somebody wanting a fight, upset because they missed their loved ones or some a*se hole had stolen their w*nk mag, hardly any sleep, there was always someone p*ssed off wanting to take it out on some poor f**ker! Like me!! Please Share The Unnamed Soldiers by Clive Ward Op banner veteran. clivewardauthor.com UK kindle also available on Paperback. amazon.co.uk/Unnamed-Soldie…

@VeteranIrish 😂 there’s always an upside

@MikeMeakinDHL Strange experience I guess?, but at least you would of cleared the house quickly knowing it precise layout… 😁

Military History - LMR 600 GORDON 🧵 1/9. During the Second World War, an ‘Austerity’ version of the Stanier 8F 2-8-0 was produced under the direction of Mr. R. A. Riddles for the Ministry of Supply, and the ‘WD’ 2-8-0 class eventually totalled 935 locos.

@Jim_Bagnall @VeteranIrish AD 601, another 2-10-0 named Kitchener I believe was oil fired it was used in the 1966 Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery movie. Other locos at Longmoor were also oil fired like Brussels 0-6-0 which I believe went to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. @WorthValley #kvwr

@VeteranIrish Gorgeous WD locos, I hear the one at North Yorks is being oil fired due to price of coal, & heard they could be converted for this use during war time.

Retatrutide spike: Fake weight loss jabs surged in 2025, says new data vist.ly/4pj2m Some 5,851 “counterfeit or unlicensed” weight loss pens were seized by the MHRA last year alone chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/regulatio…

On behalf of The King, The Princess Royal attends the Sovereign's Parade at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) in Camberley today, on the 33rd anniversary of the wedding to The Princess Royal to Sir Tim Laurence. 📸 RMASandhurst

@OksanaPyzikUCL highlighted the problem of #Retatrutide recently siezed by the @MHRAgovuk 👇 in the UK, at this morning's @GS1Healthcare Conference. 👏 #fakeclinicaltrials #stopthefakes UK makes world's biggest-ever seizure of fake weight loss jabs news.sky.com/story/uk-makes…

📽️ Sponsor Spotlight | 40th GS1 Healthcare Global Conference We’re proud to welcome Antares Vision Group, a global leader in digitalisation, traceability & smart data to the 40th GS1 Healthcare Global Conference, 4–6 Nov 2025 in Brussels. 👉youtu.be/RDlje5JOUuw

Join us 5 Nov, 8:30 CET at the 40th GS1 Healthcare Global Conference plenary: ‘Digital Labeling Opportunities: Future-ready solutions for compliance and efficiency’ with Anne Moen, (University of Oslo) and others. Register 👉 bit.ly/43ohcnd

@GS1Healthcare This was a verybgood session 👍

🎤 Speaker Spotlight | 40th GS1 Healthcare Global Conference Join us 4 Nov at 14:30 CET for the plenary ‘Online Pharmacies & Digital Traceability’ with Martino Canonica, (EAHP) and other experts. 👉 bit.ly/43ohcnd

@grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was