Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixteen
Monday Monday again and it’s warmer in London today, but it is wet again. I suppose that now it is officially winter it is not unexpected. I hear the BBC wants to increase the TV [more…]
Royal Navy
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ten
Monday Good morning cat lovers, and welcome to another week of reports from Downing Street. I see we had another big pro-Palestinian march in London where the marchers were shouting about jihad and waving Palestinian [more…]
20th Century
West Country Family Holiday Continued
Looe Looe is a charming coastal town and civil parish located in southeast Cornwall. The town is divided into East Looe and West Looe by the River Looe and has a population of 5,314 as [more…]
19th Century
The Ghost with Wet Boots
Admiral Tyron was an extremely gifted Royal Naval Officer with a proven career of command, in the peacetime, post-Napoleonic era. On 22nd June 1893 he was Commander of the Mediterranean Station and was on board [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and Four
Monday Good morning everyone, it’s rather nice this morning, warm and sunny. I thought the good weather was over yesterday when it clouded up and rained a bit. Well, I had to laugh this morning [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred
Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to my 200th diary entry. Wow, 200 editions, that means I have been writing this diary for over four years (if you count all those holidays my scribe goes [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Ninety-Seven
Monday Hello everyone and welcome to another week in Westminster. It was grey and grotty first thing outside, so I rushed back down and back and was busy tucking into my Felix before the rain [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – Some Impressions
Having spent a while researching the Desert War series, it is only fair to leave you my impressions based on the many thing that have passed before my eyes. It takes a while to weed [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – May 1943
With the Axis occupying a smaller and smaller piece of real estate in Tunisia this was the month they would have to surrender, 291,000 of them. There was no way to supply them and no [more…]