More notes from 45 years of cycling In its day, Tinsley Marshalling Yard in Sheffield was the world’s most advanced railway-wagon sorting centre. It specialised in computerised hump-shunting, which is not a fetish category on [more…]
It’s been a while since my last article on items of art we’ve purchased for our new home and I thought some of you Puffins would like to see some of the latest pieces, having [more…]
Who doesn’t love the classic pen-knife or Swiss Army knife? Memories of running around in short trousers, whittling sticks and getting up to mischief in the great outdoors. Having a folding knife that you can [more…]
Our four weeks begin on Thursday the 30th July 2015, the concluding day of Regina versus Fellows at the Old Bailey in London. In a witness statement, Ben Fellows had claimed that Kenneth Clarke MP [more…]
It’s always nice to see the first lambs in the village fields. The three (just visible in the header picture) were born on Sunday 28th March, 4 days earlier than expected. This little field and [more…]
Sorry, this isn’t a book review……………As such. It is, however, an attempt to highlight the similarities between life in Germany during the early 1930s & life in the UK in 2021. In 1955, Milton Mayer [more…]
Lying just above the 68th parallel makes the Norwegian port of Narvik more northern than Iceland. The Nordland municipality’s 20,000 inhabitants also live their lives 860 miles north of Oslo, 870 miles from Stockholm in [more…]
Let’s assume for a minute, that the vaccination campaign is led by people who genuinely want to end the current crisis and restore the country to “normal”. Let’s also assume, that they believe that mass [more…]
Operation Determine – Afghanistan 2001/2002 In the New Year they reassembled back at their Hereford base and the troop was told they would be operating in Afghanistan for a number of months. Edge was noticeable [more…]
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