20th Century
The Death Railway, Part Four
Step forward to the present day; SWMBO and I have been visiting Thailand for many years and decided it was time to head out to the Death Railway as Grandad Humbug had been in Burma [more…]
Hobbies
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-One
Monday Good morning readers it’s a rather pleasant morning mild and a bit of sunshine but it’s going to rain again later. I enjoyed my trip down the garden in the sun and found a [more…]
20th Century
The Death Railway, Part Three
Railway Construction Initially, the railway construction schedule allowed reasonable working conditions to be imposed on the POWs who, at that time, formed the majority of the skilled workforce. This combined with the fact that the [more…]
Diary
A View From The Greenhouse; Doctors, Architects, Aspiring DJ’s
They keep turning up, farm implements of indeterminate age, mostly bladed and mostly without shafts. It seems unlikely that his particular scimitar like implement is either a sickle or scythe; I’m guessing it had a [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty
Monday Good morning friends, and a happy Easter Monday to you. It is also April Fool’s Day. I promise you I will not be telling you any April Fools Day’s stories, at least not deliberately. [more…]
20th Century
The Death Railway, Part Two
The preparatory work was completed by early September 1942 and construction began both in Burma and Thailand on the 16th of that month. Many of the Japanese engineers had attended British universities before heading back [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Nine
Monday Good morning friends, another week is underway. It was a bit grey earlier, but the sun is trying to show here in the street. This morning I hear that China was behind the hacking [more…]
20th Century
The Death Railway
Most Puffins will have watched David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai which is based on a novel published five years previously by French author Pierre Boulle. Whilst both book and film [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From The Greenhouse; Fear & Loathing In Dumfries & Galloway, Hate Crimes….Innit?
It was great to meet up with old friends and meet some new ones at the “Northern” get together. The more intrepid amongst the august gathering braved a short, if wet, walk down (and back [more…]