The above photograph appears in our family Nostalgia Album captioned “Mauretania Southampton 1939”. Although every Big Boy’s Big Book of Big Ships says something different, the photograph, languishing in the Worth-Saying family album for 83 [more…]
SOD-YOU-KO 208 Word Search 208 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 207 and [more…]
In general I am not in favour of things Teutonic though some of their ladies are rather tasty plus the average German man is little short of a pig so if you can be semi [more…]
RESPONSES Once again I thank all who read and commented on Part 33 describing my 1997 passage from South West Scotland to Northern Ireland and especially DJM who has shown consistent enthusiasm for this series [more…]
Day 10 – Sunday 2nd January – At Sea I woke for a pee in the early hours, must have been the beer, and for the first time this cruise I could feel the ship [more…]
Monday Morning all, still fairly mild but pretty damp underfoot. Gosh, it didn’t half rain hard last night. I was having a nice dream about big bowls of Felix Chicken when the downpour interrupted it. [more…]
The above photograph was taken on March 25th 1936. How can we be so certain? The marquee to the left can be seen at the beginning of a video clip below, the occasion being the [more…]
SOD-YOU-KO 207 Word Search 207 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 206 and [more…]
In the Devon village closest to the Andrei Sakharov Dissidents’ Campsite lived two young dissidents affectionately known to everyone as the Girlies. Although they looked like two peas in a pod, the Girlies were not [more…]
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