Monthly Archives: September 2023

The Campbells are comin, Oho! Oho!The Campbells are comin, Oho! Oho!The Campbells are comin to bonie Lochleven,The Campbells are comin Oho! Oho! Well, the Campbells have been this week, but not to fight any battles on this soil. When we … Continue reading →

No doubt, dear reader, you will have read something of the First World War. You may even have visited the Western Front, or at least that part of it held by British and Commonwealth (“Empire” in those days) Forces and … Continue reading →

The DH66 – the “Hercules” I found the two upper pictures while browsing through the pages of that curious web site called “Pinterest”. There are many aircraft photos there, but often taken to show the complete aircraft in flight or … Continue reading →

Great excitement yesterday morning. An email arrived from a builder who had given us and estimate for a job (which we had accepted) to ask if we still wanted the job doing ? We replied instantly, “Yes”, and he has … Continue reading →

We had a Lib Dem Member of the European Parliament, Fiona Hall by name, and she was in my opinion, very good. She organised trips to Brussels to see the European Parliament and the European Commission buildings. At the latter … Continue reading →

Back in the day – my wee office when we lived in Stockton-on-Tees. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and an old Crockfords on the right and a computer and keyboard of a long forgotten (by me) make hooked … Continue reading →

There we were, the 10th of August, making our way to Grasmere in the Lake District, minding our own businesses, when the car quietly died and by a stroke of singular good luck we were just approaching a lay-by into … Continue reading →

I haven’t written a lot in here lately because in all truth, there isn’t a lot to write about. Day follows day in endless regularity, but little happens during those days to distinguish one from another. If and when we … Continue reading →

At 11am on 3 September 1939, Neville Chamberlain announced in a radio broadcast that the country was at war . . . and I and my parents were listening intently, and apprehensively, half knowing what we were going to hear … Continue reading →