Hope you all had a good Easter and are now looking forward to all those Summer activities such as holidays and sporting events such as the Olympics and Wimbledon and the Euro Football Finals. I love my sport as many will know, I even get excited about cricket. My passions though are Tennis, Athletics, and […]
Hi all First of all let me wish you all a very Happy Easter. Easter is no longer a busy time for me socially speaking all the children are now grown and flown the nest and we no longer buy Easter Eggs for everyone. We do still treat the children to a small egg […]
That’s me folks. Well that is what many think. Hahahaha. This weeks ramblings are off the cuff and unplanned as there is not a lot going on website wise. I am still plodding away with formatting and preparing submissions for upload but having learnt a lesson fairly recently that its quality and not quantity that […]
As many of you who know me well or are connected to me on Facebook you would have noticed that after six years apart (long story which would probably bore you into stop reading from this point in) that my daughter now aged 19 came to stay for a week. It was amazing for me […]
Firstly am going to announce that this blog is going to be rescheduled to a monthly thing – 3rd Sunday of each month. The reason for this is time and lack of viewings although I still believe it’s a worthwhile task even if only a handful of people read it. January is a slow month […]
2015 – The Year in Review 2015 has been an up and down year for the website with some happy and sad times and some major changes to the admin team. The the first half of year started well with over 2700 new and updated items added to the website. June saw our Website […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 38 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
Hi everyone This will be the last blog of the year and I will try a yearly review for the first blog of the new year. I hope that Santa was good to you all and that no-one over indulged in the norty but nice stuff – I have been really good even finding a […]
David Palmer, OPC and Census Co-ordinator It saddens me to make the announcement that David Palmer passed away on 15th December 2015. His daughter Karen informed me today (21st December) that he had suffered ill health for some time and had been admitted to hospital but sadly was unable to fight his illness further. David […]
Wow – how fast as this come around. Cannot believe it will be 2016 in just a few weeks. As it is Christmas obviously this is going to be themed around that. Two items I wish to share with you were from the VAD Hospital at Heywood House, near Westbury during WWI. Both Items are from […]
