Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
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The little boat is a catamaran, thus it has 2 hulls. The bilge pump (which is supposed to evacuate water) in the starboard hull is buggered, so I am having to pop down occasionally and bail water out. As it has been pissing down cats and dogs this week, that is a daily occurrence. I do have a new one to install, but the idea of lying down in water and doing the removal, rewiring and installation is not that appealing. Hoping for a few days decent weather so the starboard hull floor dries out, or at least is just damp....
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Today, Paula and I went to the Royal Armouries on Portsdown Hill in Portsmouth. It is basically a celebration of all the shit we could do to people we did not like, or had fallen out with, or needed to be taught a lesson. But there is all sorts of other amazing stuff on display.
A couple of the tubes that were part of Saddam Husseins superguns....Each gun comprised 26 tubes, so were reasonably large. They were made in the UK, "embargo, what embargo, these are tubes for the petrochemical industry"
Small gun and ammo that we nicked off the Turks...
But the real reason for going was the "Standing with Giants" installation....
Extremely moving.....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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The ‚Standing with Giants‘ installation impressed.
Reading the letter on the last picture was heartwarming and gloomy at once.
Looks like The Wabbidashery accumulates your best form @Giles and thanks @Madame-Buttonfly to put him into handsome perspective 
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Good timing on your post @Giles
I am currently reading Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson,
I don't know anything about Nelson or Trafalgar, but I am thinking of visiting HMS Victory in Portsmouth and was thinking of adding Fort Nelson into the plan.
There looks to me many military museums in the area. Are there any spots I should be including in my visit?
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@Giles Very interesting and moving....
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@Giles lest we forget...
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@Bridger said in Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour:
Good timing on your post @Giles
I am currently reading Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson,
I don't know anything about Nelson or Trafalgar, but I am thinking of visiting HMS Victory in Portsmouth and was thinking of adding Fort Nelson into the plan.
There looks to me many military museums in the area. Are there any spots I should be including in my visit?
Get a Dockyard pass. It lasts for a year and is amazing. It gets you into amongst other things; Victory, Warrior, Mary Rose (That's really a day in itself, more Tudor artefacts than in the whole of the rest of the UK), Submarine Museum, Explosion museum (whee I had my Kanreki), and more. @goosehd did it with his fam earlier in the year.Then of course there is the Royal Armouries.
And last but not least IHUK.
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@Bridger That pass is fantastic and definitely worth the money! I have been through all of the exhibits now and could still find things to do…
The key attractions for me were the Victory, Mary Rose, and Warrior. If you take your time, those three exhibits are a multiple day experience which I would have done if I didn’t have the kids in tow. Trying to balance my interests and keeping them interested is a bit of a challenge, but there were things that all of us had fun doing.
I would go back and do it all again and probably will at some point.
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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@goosehd The first time I got Ralph to go to Gosport, was getting him to The Mary Rose first.
