Digitally Built Engineer, historian, infrastructure enthusiast, CSM/RSWO/SO3 & professional sillyman. NED @COMobileIT & Digital Advisory #Sapper #BIMbrew
South East, England
Joined October 2010
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The National Infrastructure of Ukraine is under attack & understanding what is Critical & what is Vulnerable will help them prioritise reconstruction & protection from future disasters.
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Every day, you use the names of dead Britons. 🇬🇧
You just never knew they were people.
Your wellies? The man who beat Napoleon. 🥾
Your mac? A Glasgow chemist who made cloth waterproof. ☔
Your plimsolls? An MP who fought the owners of overloaded ships. ⚓
The tarmac outside? A road builder from Ayr. 🛣️
Seven Britons. One ordinary day.
They teach you the steam engine.
Not that James Watt's name is on every electricity bill you pay. ⚡
The world runs on British names. It just forgot they were people.
Watch the full story. 🎥
Their names are everywhere. Their stories aren't. Help us tell them: Proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
A whisper falls, a final grain,
The upper bowl is clear.
The shadows stretch across the pane,
And silence draws anear.
Just one soft slip of golden dust,
Before the quiet night—
We hold the hour as we must,
And let go of the light.
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🏴🇬🇧 Britain sent warships into a friendly country's harbours. 🔥
And burned its ships at anchor. ⚓
That country was Brazil 🇧🇷
More enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil than to any other country on earth. ⛓️
Not America 🇺🇸 Brazil 🇧🇷
Nearly half of everyone shipped across the Atlantic went there. Ten times more than the United States. 🌍
In 1826 Britain made Brazil sign a treaty. The trade would end by 1830. 📜
Brazil signed. Then ignored it. They even had a phrase for laws like that: "para inglês ver". For the English to see. 👀
Tens of thousands of people kept arriving every year. 😔
So Britain changed the law. Brazilian slave ships could now be tried in British courts as pirates. ⚖️
In 1850 the Royal Navy sailed into Brazil's ports, under the guns of the forts. They cut out the slave ships and burned them. 🚢
Emperor Pedro II's government had a choice. War with Britain. Or end the trade. ⚔️
That September, Brazil banned it. Within two years the trade was dead. 🕊️
Yet today only one country is asked to feel ashamed. 🤔
The one that stopped it. 🇬🇧
Be part of us. 🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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Slavery was normal everywhere. ⛓️
Pharaohs. Romans. Vikings. 👑
Then one country's people said no. 🇬🇧
No army. No vote. ✊
300,000 stopped buying sugar. 🍬
Nearly a million signed. One in every seventeen people in Britain. ✍️
Then the Navy went to sea. ⚓
1,600 slave ships taken. 150,000 people freed. 🕊️
It cost a century and a fortune. Barely taught at all. 📚
That's why we're here. 📖
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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Tuesday 27th October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station
ALT Tuesday 27th October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station You dont notice how much a little thing matters until it becomes a thing you can't do anymore.
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"A military that is unprepared for urban operations across the broad spectrum is unprepared for tomorrow."
– Ralph Peters, "Our Soldiers, Their Cities," Parameters, Volume 26, Number 1, 1995.
Urban fighting (minutes 0:10 to 0:38)
Trench/subterranean fighting (0:45 to 2:01).
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Friday 16th October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station
ALT Friday 16th October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station One day this will be the story you tell about how things turned around.
I shall be sharing my work on #infrastructure #resilience at the @ComitProjects day in November. Join me?
There’s more to it than a transport & energy hub…
lnkd.in/p/eWHC-JAi
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#itsoknottobeok
Mental Health week is a gentle reminder to us all that we don’t have to suffer in silence.
If you need to talk over a brew, kettle is always on.
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Thursday 8th October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station
ALT Thursday 8th October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station Don't let the fear of what's ahead stop you from moving forward. The only way to conquer it is to step through it.
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Tuesday 6th October 2026 Thought Of The Evening From Morden Station #DysatonomiaAwarenessMonth
ALT Tuesday 6th October 2026 Thought Of The Evening From Morden Station #DysatonomiaAwarenessMonth I'm thankful tor my struggle because without it I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength.
I need an AI app that tells me someones name from the vague description of them I give it!
Any suggestions for this old man? 👴🏻
New travel booking system….. has AI interface. So far I have wasted 30 minutes repeatedly telling it I want a return train ticket to London sigh….
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Spitfires and Hurricanes at Duxford just now. A sound to die for. #RoyalAirForce
So many awards in our industry are connected to money! As a one man band, I am doing some pretty cool stuff and I think ground breaking. I enter, but can't afford the "dinner" at £300 a seat. So I get deselected. Its all a bit crap!
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Thursday 1st October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station
ALT Thursday 1st October 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station Small Steps still count
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Wednesday 30th September 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station
ALT Wednesday 30th September 2026 Thought Of The Day From Morden Station I don't think people realise how much strength it takes to pull your own self out of a dark place mentally. So, if you've done that today or any day, I'm proud of you.
#BIMBrew today.
I’m still amazed by the number of conversations around BIM that i have, that start with the premise of CAD=BIM. I really thought this was behind us. Have we failed that badly to get the message across for the last 15 years?
