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@RHerriott I was interested in Jenny's forefathers, at least the ones who served in the British Army.   Until well after the second wor...

This is a good book! I was unsure about buying it, but I had to use the book voucher from last year and only two books in that shop were wor...

@Bob Herriott There has been some fuss in recent days concerning the famous 'Dambusters Raid' from some 80 years ago.  As usual, the...

Very quiet this morning.  By 8 am an empty airport bus slogged its way slowly past, a black woman, dressed West Indian style walked slowly u...

Because of the heat we need to be beside the seaside.   Of course I am not! Instead today I had to hobble to Kirk in the great heat once aga...

Busy day today, housework, some of which has actually been done.  I then set about posting some of    my late brothers pictures on a new blo...

  Got myself a job! My brother died a few years ago and with his widow now moving near my best, most attractive, and highly talented niece w...

The Bees and the beasties have been making the most of the times.  The gardens are full of bright coloured flowers inviting them to feed and...

                                                    Sgt Jez Doak RAF?MOD I often wonder about people who study the Great War.   On my Twitt...

Saturday was a busy day, I rose very early as I had to be at work by ten, and it takes a while to get ready.  Before ten I arrived to be ...

Wellington A few days ago Tony contacted me re his research of a downed Wellington Bomber, and in particular the Wireless Operator,...

The new man in Iran is one Hassan Rouhani , a Muslim cleric and now President of Iran.  He replaces the renowned rabblerouser Ahmadinej...

The world returned to normal this morning. Vehicles sped up and down the road, the wireless offered death, despair and shock horror h...

From 1939 until the success of D-Day on June the 6th 1944 the only real tactic the British had to hand that could hurt the German enemy...