On June 5, 1947, the eve of the third anniversary of the 6th British Airborne Division’s landing in Normandy, my uncle John Alldridge of the Manchester Evening News reviewed the achievements of the establishment responsible [more…]
Climate I think most of us accept that the world climate is mostly out of our control and the sun will do what the sun wants to do. There are local changes, but these are [more…]
International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, August 2022 Earlier this year, around May-June if I remember correctly since it was right in the midst of the chaos of our moving home, it was with some excitement [more…]
Welcome to another edition of The Frank Report – you find me reporting live from Westminster, where it’s been a busy week. They say you learn on the job, and let’s hope for Liz Truss [more…]
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” We live in very strange times indeed. The United Kingdom applies some of the most draconian libel laws in the Western world, while [more…]
It’s that time of year again, the strawberry beds offer up the odd lusciously red but sad, sour, berry. The courgettes are having a final spurt. The tomatoes, apart from the odd couple of plants [more…]
A couple of days ago I chartered a 38 foot sloop for the weekend with my sister, her husband and a friend. We set off from the Hamble River near Southampton on Saturday morning. It [more…]
One or two Puffins may well be of a vintage where the adage “you’ll never forget where you were when it was announced that JF Kennedy was shot” rings true. SWMBO and I are fortunate [more…]
Some seven years ago, after experiencing the dizzying effects of a very low pulse rate, I was given a pacemaker and, as an anti-clotting precaution, a blood-thinning medicine, which I was taking for several years [more…]
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