Leigh Collins
@leighc57.bsky.social
Time-expired specialist in submerged target elimination. Former Defence Attache Suva🌴. RAAF oral histories. Sniffer of glue and cutter of sprue. Cocker wrangler. My views.
Intriguing juxtaposition BlueSky.
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May 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Intriguing juxtaposition BlueSky.
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TC Alfred is out there. Somewhere. Heading this way.
March 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
TC Alfred is out there. Somewhere. Heading this way.
Just launching into Helen Castor’s latest tome covering Richard II and Henry IV. Somewhat perceptive comments in the Introduction.
February 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just launching into Helen Castor’s latest tome covering Richard II and Henry IV. Somewhat perceptive comments in the Introduction.
Only 2 weeks into 2025 and the Overton Window seems to be on a rapid slide to off-scale high.
January 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Only 2 weeks into 2025 and the Overton Window seems to be on a rapid slide to off-scale high.
Pretty forlorn retirement but I guess protection from the Elizabeth boganry trumps curatorial aesthetics.
December 21, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Pretty forlorn retirement but I guess protection from the Elizabeth boganry trumps curatorial aesthetics.
On this day 121 years ago on a windswept stretch of coastal North Carolina…
December 17, 2024 at 7:10 AM
On this day 121 years ago on a windswept stretch of coastal North Carolina…
John Winston Lennon 9 Oct 1940 - 8 Dec 1980.
I remember the day 44 years ago when I heard the news while driving my rental car around Hawaii while on a RAAF deployment to Barbers Point.
Where were you?
I remember the day 44 years ago when I heard the news while driving my rental car around Hawaii while on a RAAF deployment to Barbers Point.
Where were you?
December 7, 2024 at 10:34 PM
John Winston Lennon 9 Oct 1940 - 8 Dec 1980.
I remember the day 44 years ago when I heard the news while driving my rental car around Hawaii while on a RAAF deployment to Barbers Point.
Where were you?
I remember the day 44 years ago when I heard the news while driving my rental car around Hawaii while on a RAAF deployment to Barbers Point.
Where were you?
My first footsteps on the US mainland. NAS Moffet Field on the morning of 5 December 1980. 4 days later back in Hawaii I heard that John Lennon had been killed.
December 5, 2024 at 9:30 AM
My first footsteps on the US mainland. NAS Moffet Field on the morning of 5 December 1980. 4 days later back in Hawaii I heard that John Lennon had been killed.
Another sad day. 760’s wheels smoke for the last time in April 2018 as it starts its Sunshine Coast retirement. So glad the stars lined up so I could be there.
December 2, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Another sad day. 760’s wheels smoke for the last time in April 2018 as it starts its Sunshine Coast retirement. So glad the stars lined up so I could be there.
Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.
December 1, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.
8 years ago in South Oz. Across four generations of #maritimepatrol
November 26, 2024 at 4:14 AM
8 years ago in South Oz. Across four generations of #maritimepatrol
Happiness is the Étoile in the rear view mirror…
November 24, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Happiness is the Étoile in the rear view mirror…
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 21, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
81 years ago today. 3/3
The Battle of Tarawa. Amtrak beached on the Red Beach seawall. Area around it since reclaimed.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
The Battle of Tarawa. Amtrak beached on the Red Beach seawall. Area around it since reclaimed.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
November 20, 2024 at 1:35 PM
81 years ago today. 3/3
The Battle of Tarawa. Amtrak beached on the Red Beach seawall. Area around it since reclaimed.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
The Battle of Tarawa. Amtrak beached on the Red Beach seawall. Area around it since reclaimed.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
81 years ago this week.
The Battle of Tarawa.
Admiral Keiji Shibazaki’s bunker.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
The Battle of Tarawa.
Admiral Keiji Shibazaki’s bunker.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
November 20, 2024 at 4:15 AM
81 years ago this week.
The Battle of Tarawa.
Admiral Keiji Shibazaki’s bunker.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
The Battle of Tarawa.
Admiral Keiji Shibazaki’s bunker.
20-23 Nov 1943 and June 2001.
81 years ago. The Battle of Tarawa 20-23 Nov 1943.
Yours truly and Sherman tank “Cecilia” on Red Beach, Betio, Tarawa June 2001.
Yours truly and Sherman tank “Cecilia” on Red Beach, Betio, Tarawa June 2001.
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
81 years ago. The Battle of Tarawa 20-23 Nov 1943.
Yours truly and Sherman tank “Cecilia” on Red Beach, Betio, Tarawa June 2001.
Yours truly and Sherman tank “Cecilia” on Red Beach, Betio, Tarawa June 2001.
Leigh doing boats. EX-HMAS Brisbane. Mooloolaba Qld. Dec 2014.
November 19, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Leigh doing boats. EX-HMAS Brisbane. Mooloolaba Qld. Dec 2014.
Leigh doing boats. Sea riding HMAS Darwin. March 1986.
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Leigh doing boats. Sea riding HMAS Darwin. March 1986.
Leigh doing boats. HMAS Whyalla after crossing the equator between Funafuti and Tarawa. Feb 2001.
November 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Leigh doing boats. HMAS Whyalla after crossing the equator between Funafuti and Tarawa. Feb 2001.
The things I did to scape Russell Office for a few weeks.
“Only 8 days before I get off this thing!” HMCS Ojibwa, Boston Sep 93. Fincastle 93.
“Only 8 days before I get off this thing!” HMCS Ojibwa, Boston Sep 93. Fincastle 93.
November 19, 2024 at 6:46 AM
The things I did to scape Russell Office for a few weeks.
“Only 8 days before I get off this thing!” HMCS Ojibwa, Boston Sep 93. Fincastle 93.
“Only 8 days before I get off this thing!” HMCS Ojibwa, Boston Sep 93. Fincastle 93.
