[unofficial weekender] T-2

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I’m not often proud of my home town of Stoke-on-Trent (apart from the Spitfire, Reginald J Mitchell and oatcakes), but this story is hard not to be proud of…

 

The Story Of Lidice
On the 10 June 1942, Nazis entered the mining village of Lidice, shot 173 men, removed all the women and children and razed the village to the ground. The atrocity took place in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, ‘The Butcher of Prague’, by British-trained Czech resistance fighters after Nazi intelligence falsely linked Heydrich’s assassins to the village of Lidice.

In Stoke-on-Trent, the response to the brutality of Lidice was led by local GP and Councillor Barnett Stross with the North Staffordshire Miners’ Federation. On 6 September 1942, the “Lidice Shall Live” campaign was launched at a mass meeting in the Victoria Hall, Hanley. The campaign was named in defiance of Adolf Hitler’s claim that “Lidice Shall Die”.

The campaign to rebuild Lidice raised £32,000, which is the equivalent of more than £1.5 million today. Most of this came from miners who donated part of their wages. Lidice was rebuilt after the war, with a memorial and museum commemorating the tragedy.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is proud of the city for the role it played in rebuilding the mining village of Lidice. At the inaugural meeting of the Lidice Shall Live campaign, Dr Benes, the Czech President in exile said: “This meeting has made it clear that Lidice has not died: it lives on in the hearts of the people of Stoke-on-Trent at least. From now on, Stoke-on-Trent will live forever in the heart of every Czech citizen.”

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(apart from the Spitfire, Reginald J Mitchell and oatcakes)

And Mel the Terrain Tutor!

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Didn’t know he was a stokie!

We also make few pots, had some good footballers long ago and take the blame for the captain of the Titanic.

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IIRC Mel told once in a video that his studio was part of an old pottery making factory. And I’m pretty sure someone else from the hobby is also from there. If I only could remember who

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Monday. It’s a day.

I may have mentioned here (or somewhere else) that I applied for the Gundam Assemble tournament judge program.

Well I got accepted and the next thing you know I have got a 133 pages of “Judge Programme Handbook” to read and to become a Level 0 Judge (store tournaments) I need to answer 40 multiple choice questions that refer to the core rule book and the JPH. 30 questions give 1 point, 10 question can reward 1 or two points (depending on how good the answer is) and you need 40 points to pass. You have 60 minutes.

This is more work and study than anything I did in god knows how long XD

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@sundancer 🤪

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It’s scary!

 

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they don’t trust a German to judge things ?

😉

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This week’s pledge is to order a suitable model for the painting competition.

 

• Year drawing to a close, Christmas fast approaching – are you happy with your hobby (progress) in 2026? – My hobby goal was to finish Aeon Trespass Odyssey. I’m a little behind. I’d guess I need 10-15 more sessions while there’s only about 10 weeks left of the year. Still, I’ve made good progress. I’ll try to give it a final push in the coming weeks.

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Haha!

I just finished my “Gundam Assemble Judge Certification Level 0”

I am a certified Judge now XD

Now if only there was an event “close” by.

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Oh look, new green stuff

 

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I am a certified Judge now XD

Are you practicing shouting “Judgement Time!” and “I am the law!” now or was that part of the test?  😀 Congratulations and I look forward to you reporting back from your first competition.

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I iz a law!1!!

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@sundancer judging at level donut:

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Hmm…. donuts…  *drool*

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