The Battle of Hastings 1066 – Re-enactment by English Heritage 2025
Today I go to Battle to visit English Heritages 1066 Battle of Hastings Re-enactment. With over 300 Saxon and Norman re-enactors its a fairly large event. Absolute legends on both Saxon and Norman sides, everyone very friendly and an absolutely English day out that you have to go to at least once. The whole site…
Battles Through History Military Show 2025
Today I go to the Battles Through History Military Show at the South England Showground. The video is plagued by wind and my gimbal failing almost immediately. The site is very spaced out and unfortunately some late cancellations due to weather meant some exhibitors were unable to make it. There is a double decker bus…
The Victory Show 2025 – WWII Re-Enactment
My Video for The Victory Show in Cosby taken 30th August. Useful Timestamps (As mentioned in the show guide): 0:45 Land Battle Preparation 2:45 Land Battle WWII Battle Re-creation 8:40 Tanks and Tracked Armoured Vehicles 24:02 Model Flying Display (Due to iffy footage only obtained a bit) 24:42 Walk around the event displays 27:47 Arena…
Tanks Trucks and Firepower 2025
My Video for Tanks Trucks and Firepower 2025 taken on the 23rd August. Useful Timestamps (As mentioned in the show guide): 1:51 Soft Top and Land Rovers 4:34 Recovery and Rare Vehicles 8:40 Tanks and Tracked Armoured Vehicles 16:16 Explosive Light Tank Driving Display 23:41 Pilot Rescue (Re-enactment) 31:40 World War II Battle Re-enactment 35:38…
Operation Market Harborough 2025
My visit with a few friends to Operation Market Harborough 2025 on the 3rd of August. Useful Timestamps: 3:44 Viewing Military Vehicles 13:48 Wheeled Vehicles in the arena 18:27 Tracked Vehicles in the arena 25:48 Wheeled Vehicles in the arena 28:04 Tracked Vehicles in the arena 33:05 Chieftains in the arena 36:39 Chieftains dragrace 42:28…
Welland Steam and Country Rally 2025
My visit with a few friends to Welland Steam and Country Rally 2025 on the 26th of July based on Mr Hewes video last year and the chance to see their Thornycroft Antar. Useful Timestamps: 3:34 The Heavy Haulage Arena 16:33 Military Vehicles 18:02 The Living History Field (Road Making Demonstration) 22:51 Tractor Pull Arena…
Operation Market Harborough 2024
My video for Operation Market Harborough 2024
V1 DBForm sniplets
In DBForms try where possible to use -E for Trusted Connections rather than hard coded usernames and passwords. Use dbsvpdf.exe to output V1 outputs to PDF For multi page, multi document outputs use a variable to control the end of page such as END_OF_DOC using a field you know will appear on the last page…
The Journal Listing Report on General Ledger produces lots of blank pages
Sage Line 500 V7.1 had an option added to not include blank lines between journals which lead to hundreds of pages of blank pages being printed. If not in your version ask your reseller referencing 58022 to obtain the latest binary version and system key file introducing this. NLJLISTBK1 = NO NLJLISTBK2 = NO Assembly…
Sage Line 500/1000 Period End Email Check
As part of Sage Line 500/1000 Period End we found it easier and more audit friendly to have an automated email fire via SQL. My colleague Jim wrote the below (Hey Bob!), I then changed it around to match the sections in which we ran period end. This made it easier to determine if period…