Some of you may remember that back in 2017 Mrs. C and I (it was all her plan really) made it our business to do 40 things together to celebrate having been married for 40 [more…]
Mrs C. and I are lucky enough to have friends in Devon who have a spare bedroom which they are happy for us to occupy a couple of times a year. We’d visited them at [more…]
Introduction Although I regularly used to drive down Meerut Road in Brockenhurst on my way home from work for many years, it wasn’t until I read George McDonald Fraser’s superbly researched ‘Flashman in the Great [more…]
Retirement, as I’ve mentioned previously, takes some getting used to, especially when you’ve become accustomed to a kind of semi-formalised regimen that has developed over the best part of 50 years. Although not without things [more…]
Introduction Public interest in competitive rifle shooting in the UK arose out of the Volunteer Movement that was inaugurated in 1859 with the object of producing a trained, armed militia to counter the then perceived [more…]
September 3rd, 1811. I have been too much occupied to keep up my diary for several months. We have all been toiling on the improvement of the Bear Inn, which had fallen into some disrepair [more…]
Sometimes I get to wondering, do things simply happen randomly or do they happen for a reason? Like many other people, no doubt, I’ve been watching “Gentleman Jack”, the dramatised version of The Diaries of [more…]
June 9th, 1811. At sea once more, we discovered that two of our crew had deserted, preferring the fleshpots of New York to their homeland and what will certainly be a more than generous reward [more…]
June 3rd, 1811. The city of New York lies in a broad river estuary whose wooded slopes give no hint of what will appear around the corner. The river is divided into several channels, forming [more…]
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