Duncan Willis

DRAMA ON GOWER... A heath fire near the airport, with three appliances in attendance. WALKIES on the beach was otherwise uneventful.

COLIN, AND HIS BESTIE, LUCA... Disporting themselves on the beach at Port Eynon today. WHAT LARKS!

@JeffdeBoer9 JOYOUS!

The prototype Henry VIII “Fat Henry” mouse armour is coming along. #jeffdeboer #mouseart #miniaturesculpture #mousearmour #henryviii

PERFECT PEMBREY PERAMBULATION... With Colin for an hour as the sun was going down. PRICELESS!

SO COOL! This is an original screen-used "Betsy" puppet head with 32 interchangeable mouth expression appliances and a solid full-body stand-in from the animated kids' TV series 'Norman Picklestripes'. Gotta love eBay! (And squandering my children's inheritance!). 🤣

@ron_eisele Brave man! I met him at a UK Autographica event in 2001, and asked him what he would have said, had he been the first man on the Moon (which he might have been if the Russian N1 rocket hadn't kept exploding). He replied: "I could not have put it better than Neil".

18 March 1965. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov.

ROUGH SEA... And an ominous sky today at Burry Port beach for walkies. It stayed dry for the duration though.

New launch date set for NASA's delayed Moon mission. Following extensive repairs and a comprehensive Flight Readiness Review, NASA has established April 1, 2026, at 6:24 p.m. ET as the target launch date for Artemis II, the program's inaugural crewed flight. Success on this schedule would mark the first human journey around the Moon in over half a century, surpassing the Apollo era's last lunar voyage in 1972. The decision came after NASA's rigorous assessment confirmed the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are prepared for flight. Earlier this year, technical setbacks—including a fuel leak identified during a February 3 rehearsal and a helium flow interruption to the upper stage on February 21—prompted a rollback from Launch Pad 39B to Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building for fixes. Repairs progressed smoothly, enabling NASA to plan a vehicle rollout to the pad as early as March 19 (with some reports indicating March 20), setting the stage for the April window. Backup opportunities exist through early April (April 2–6) and potentially April 30, depending on orbital alignments and conditions. Artemis II will send four astronauts—NASA's Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), Christina Koch (mission specialist), and CSA's Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist)—on a roughly 10-day voyage. The crew will travel more than 600,000 miles (965,000 km), execute a lunar flyby using a free-return trajectory, and test Orion's deep-space systems in preparation for future landings. This milestone mission represents humanity's return to cislunar space after decades of low Earth orbit focus, paving the way for sustainable lunar exploration under the Artemis program. [“Artemis II Mission Overview.” NASA, 2026]

The “Harold and Maude” Jaguar E-Type Hearse: A True Undertaking youtu.be/ZL9p1ovaE_E?si… via @YouTube

Inside Airfix: The Bankruptcy That Destroyed Britain’s Model Empire youtu.be/XGv1p6d1xMc?si… via @YouTube

THE STORY OF AIRFIX... The company that got me into making model kits as a boy in the 1960's. I used to buy a 1/72 kit per week with my pocket money. Inside Airfix: The Bankruptcy That Destroyed Britain’s Model Empire youtu.be/XGv1p6d1xMc?si… via @YouTube

A lovely Short Film on the Studios and people that bought us ‘Thunderbirds’, ‘Stingray, ‘Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons’, ‘Joe 90’ and many more. CENTURY 21, SLOUGH (2018) Worth hunting down. #GerryAnderson

@DailyPicTheme2 #Holy blocky builds, Batman, this building blocks Batmobile is the business!

Monday 16 March Today’s Daily Picture Theme is 'Holy' 🙏 RT or reply with your own photo Tomorrow’s theme will be 'Irish' #DailyPictureTheme Holy Island, Northumberland

David Bowie - Starman (10 Years Remembered Music Video) 4K youtu.be/ZcC0QWsfpAQ?si… via @YouTube

From the Earth to the Moon Openning Credits and Final youtu.be/xAkZvpq1IZ0?si… via @YouTube

GOLDEN SUN... During walkies at Machynys Beach this evening. LOVELY!

@DailyPicTheme2 A late Spring day and the flags at Port Eynon beach are flapping in a #Gentle breeze (May 2024). PERFECT!

Sunday 15 March Today’s Daily Picture Theme is ‘Gentle' RT or reply with your own photo Tomorrow’s theme will be 'Holy' #DailyPictureTheme #Gentle Bristol Goats

RETURNED: Daleks' Master Plan 3: Devil's Planet - The Mysteries That Wil... youtu.be/ZdtXTOFYX9A?si… via @YouTube