Genealogy and other jottings

Genealogy or perhaps more Family History. Not just straight forward (or backward) family lines, but brothers and sisters, the neighbourhoods that they lived in and some information about what was happening at the time.

Monday, September 5, 2016

September,Hop-picking,blackberries and scrumping

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First week of September, a little cooler and mostly damper, a whiff of wood smoke in the air, blackberries in the hedgerows apples on the t...

Monday, July 4, 2016

Banana prawn

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There is an Australian expression of calling someone stupid as being a prawn, or even worse a raw prawn. " I was made to feel ...

Friday, June 24, 2016

If I were English I would be ashamed today.

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In 2016 I wrote this and I am going to say it again If I were English I would be ashamed to be English today. If I were British I woul...

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Friday, June 17, 2016

The quiet coach

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Have you been in the "quiet" of a long distance train recently and wondered what "quiet" is supposed to mean? There are ...

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Lost London

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London is probably one of the most written about cities in the world, but for many parts of old London there is no record of how some stree...

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Not a stunt rider

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No this is not a stunt rider. This manoeuvre was part of the normal motorcycle training for National Service Military Policemen in t...

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Stop the world I want to get off.

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Lots of older people are just grumpy old men or grumpy old women. Some though are just bemused by the changes which have taken place in ju...

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