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THE FINAL HONK

18th May 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

Yesterday, I spent some time with the dead. I hadn’t intended to visit the natural burial ground set just below the Jack and Jill Windmills on the South Downs but the weather was good and [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Four

2nd May 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

Two weeks after setting forth from Croydon we finally free-wheeled into St.Nazaire on the southern coast of Brittany, somewhat short of our initial target of St.Tropez. The tandem and single bike had survived various alarms [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Three

27th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

Having recovered from the ravages of what we thought was pilchard food poisoning but was more likely some dodgy Camembert, and rested sufficiently at the Rouen youth hostel we ventured forth on Day 5 and [more…]

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A Life in Three Honks, Honk the Second

20th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

At the end of part 1 we left our intrepid teenager entering the portals of the famous Foyles Bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, London. Founded in 1903 initially selling secondhand books from a small [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part Two

13th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

You will recall that we three intrepid cyclists, Cough, Pat and my good self, had landed in Blangy sur Bresle, a small village on the border of Picardy and Normany on the second night of [more…]

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SAILING MY LIFE AWAY (II), PART 1

12th April 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AND DISCOVERY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO Descartes is famously quoted as having said “Cogito, Ergo Sum”. His remark was first published in French to reach a wider audience- “Je pense, donc je suis”. [more…]

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Three Men on a Bike, Part One

30th March 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

I suppose it must have been during the 1965 Easter break from the Sixth Form that Bogs, Cough, Pat and myself decided that during the summer months between the AS level exams and the start [more…]

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A Life in Three Honks, Honk the First

28th March 2022 Roger Ackroyd 0

Being born in Birmingham in 1947 I was lucky enough to have ridden on the trams along Oulton Boulevard before they were scrapped in the early 50’s and regularly traveled into central Birmingham on the [more…]

20th Century

What did you do in the war grandad?

17th March 2022 Going Postal 0

This is the brief story of my grandad and his part in the war. Here is a picture of George with who we think is his grandmother in the early 1900s. George Gilfoyle was born [more…]

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