FDR had abolished private ownership of gold money but retained gold as the underlying asset for U.S. currency, exchangeable one for the other. Variations in the price of U.S. currency in ounces of gold served [more…]
Eleventh in a series by my uncle John Alldridge. This article first appeared in the Derby Evening Telegraph in January 1968 – Jerry F I found him sitting beside me at a snack bar on [more…]
Monday Good morning everyone, no rain or frost again today, but the grass is still very wet under paw, but at least it isn’t so muddy as it was last week. There is even a [more…]
Have you ever wondered how the bank worked out how much interest to pay on your savings account, or charge you on your mortgage? I had a mortgage with a building society some years ago, [more…]
Maya dropped Penny and Irena at a port gate and they approached one of the British soldiers at the gatehouse who asked for her papers. Both the girls presented their identical German ID cards, Irena’s [more…]
The blame game As we know from every crisis in human history, and especially the more recent ones, the most important item on any politician’s agenda is to find someone else to blame for it. [more…]
People research their family trees for all sorts of reasons. Where did I come from? (perfectly respectable to ask one’s self!).What sort of people were my forebears? what jobs did they do? Are there any [more…]
12th December – Barbados This changing the time by an hour every other day is driving my body clock mad! I woke up at 5:20 ages early. The lights of Barbados were twinkling as we [more…]
Somalia’s recent history is also a tale of grave miscalculations made by foreigners in a very foreign land. Knowing nomads happily demonstrated their supremacy and disdain for outsiders, the so-called fruits of civilization were not [more…]
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