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.

Friday, April 21, 2017

What we learned doing National Service

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National Service - what we learned Every now and again after some particular outrage by a young person, student, hoodie, longhair ...

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Fall out for a smoke

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We live near a large block of modern flats and we can see some of the mainly younger residents standing outside smoking because it is no...

Monday, October 3, 2016

To the woods

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I am not sure why, but if I think of the countryside these days I don't visualise rolling fields and all that, but of woods. Perhaps ...

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 ...

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