Kev Hatchett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇫🇰

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Kev Hatchett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇫🇰

Kev Hatchett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇫🇰

@kev_hatch

RN SAMA 82 Proud to have served. Si Vis Pacem Para Belum. 🚛 dvr and 👨‍🍳 Currently retired, drinking too much 🍷 Rode my 🏍️ round the world for 3.5 yrs

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El Cid
El Cid@2LivesCid·
I remember when a coffee cost 25p in the local spit and sawdust cafe The young today are happy to pay £5.50 for a hazelnut latte in Starbucks than save up to buy a house. Thick as pig mince..
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El Cid
El Cid@2LivesCid·
@kev_hatch And you have your own house now. See how it works ?
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Fisherthem
Fisherthem@1554buchanan·
@James_WE_Smith Frigates were deployed on potential suicide missions during Falklands conflict. In the absence of minesweepers, they were ordered to patrol areas to clear any mines. This was to make a safe passage for more valuable assets to get through.
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Dr. James W.E. Smith
Dr. James W.E. Smith@James_WE_Smith·
"Isn't it bizarre that no one complains when the army or air force loses a tank or plane, but all hell breaks loose when a warship sinks? Warships are meant to be used—and some will be lost. But we are here to employ our forces, not languish in fear of risk or for enemy..." ––First Sea Lord Henry Leach (1923-2011) commenting on risk adversity in modern politics, academics like Sir Micheal Howard (1922-2019) and the modern media.
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EssKay.
EssKay.@EssKayFlex·
@kev_hatch @higgyboson And now we'll have to work till we're 90, not enjoy a retirement or a pension, and not even be able to own our own house. Yet we're somehow still the privileged entitled ones when you own 2 houses and are rubbing it in the face of people that'll never be able to afford one.
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Higgy
Higgy@higgyboson·
Dear Techboy, You seem to be slightly annoyed at people who own larger than average homes after they've worked for 50+ years. We have a lovely big bungalow with a large garden, summerhouse, huge workshop for me, smaller workshop for Mrs Higgy. The garden faces South so we get lots of sun and, as there's lots of glass on the rear of the house it benefits from huge amounts of solar heat gain when the sun pokes out from behind the clouds in the winter. We're all toasty and warm because we've insulated it really well and have a very efficient heating system. We can park both vehicles on the driveway, which is nice. We have a massive garage too. Which is useful for storing all manner of.... well, stuff. We've made one of the bedrooms into a dedicated music room. It's rather lovely. I can listen to all my old vinyls and, as we're detached, I can play them REALLY loud without upsetting any neighbours. You'd love it. The loft space is absolutely ginormous too. We could probably convert it into a swanky apartment and rent it out to someone for a tenner per month as a "gesture", including all bills, but do you know what? We don't really want to share. We like it as it is. Oh, and we have a huge Easter Island statue in the front garden just because we can. I don't feel guilty about any of this by the way. Mrs Higgy spent her entire 40 year career as an NHS nurse, which is some feat. And, at 66, I'm still slogging my guts out as a Painter and Decorator which isn't just about painting someones kitchen ceiling but involves lots of climbing up and down ladders and clambering over scaffolding etc. So, in summary, we like it here and we're staying.
TechToby@techtoby__

Majority of all the 4, 5 and 6 bedroom homes in my area are all occupied by boomers. They spend all day from Spring to Autumn gardening. Some of them can barely bend down. I’ve no idea why they wouldn’t just sell up. Instead they complain about being unable to heat the property. Any time a home comes up for sale, it’s because someone has died. Then a lot of people don’t even want to buy them because they’ve not been decorated since 1985 and have no bath.

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Kev Hatchett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇫🇰
@higgyboson I retired at 49, spent 3.5 years riding my motorcycle around the world, settled in my house in France afterwards. I own a house in the UK too which is rented out, nice earner soon to be sold off for my pension pot, and I'll still take my state pension thank you.
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Andrew Kenyon
Andrew Kenyon@AndrewKenyon6·
Time to raise a glass to my shipmates, ships coy, submariners that 44 years ago were heading 8000 miles south towards battle in the Falklands whilst back home there was a flurry of activity as the rest of the task force assembled and readied to sail 🫡👊🇬🇧🇫🇰
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Grifty
Grifty@TheGriftReport·
9-year-old girl killed and two other children injured after two men allegedly high on drugs smashed their BMW into a family car in Birmingham. The horror crash happened at 11pm on Icknield Street in Hockley. The men, aged 22 and 23, were arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while unfit through drugs. The little girl died in hospital shortly after the collision.
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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian
3) Meanwhile, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the US Ambassador to the UN isn't present, as she is attending a celebratory dinner with the Argentine Ambassador!! She is heavily criticised in both the New York Times & Washington Post for such a crude and blatant display: she knew all along.
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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian
April 2nd 1982: The UN Security Council convenes. Argentine representative Eduardo Roca defends the Argentine invasion: "In an act which responds to an Argentine demand and in defence against the recent acts of aggression provoked by the United Kingdom"... 1/3
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steve
steve@bagshaw2112·
Mine was a fixed Motorola in the car, my first mobile was number 6 I think, but I’ve had most of these lol and still got a 6210 #phone
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Dick Delingpole
Dick Delingpole@DickDelingpole·
I’ve finally accepted that my iPhone 11 with 64GB of memory needs replacing. I’ve had it several years. There’s not even enough memory to take a system update. It doesn’t even hold a charge for whole day. A 17e arrives today.
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𓆩 luis 𓆪
𓆩 luis 𓆪@cikatrizando·
Si los pelos de la nariz son para filtrar el aire, entonces los del qlo para q sirven???
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Joe Layton
Joe Layton@JoeLayton96·
One of the reasons I decided to go into politics isn’t something I talk about enough. Back in 2022, serving on HMS Dasher with Coastal Forces Squadron, we were tasked with assisting Illegal Channel crossings. I had to board these boats and rig them for recovery into Dover. What I found stuck with me… Abandoned IDs. Cash. Phone chargers. Tools. I even pulled a wallet from the water. Discarded like it meant nothing. why would someone throw away their identity? 👉Because they don’t want to be identified. 👉Because they know the system is broken. I’ve seen it first-hand. Britain has lost control of its borders. We’ve lost our standards. We’ve lost accountability. It’s time to restore British values. 🇬🇧 That means strong borders. That means proper enforcement. That means mass deportations for those here illegally. ‼️This operation cost the government £29,433,762. No more pretending. No more weakness. Roll on a @RestoreBritain_ Government !
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