Meeting the ancestors!
One memory that always makes me smile is an occasion in the Borthwick Institute for Archives – the specialist archive…
Month: May 2021
A very important question.
The other day a brown coloured C5 envelope dropped on my doormat. Normally, I put off picking the post up…
Facing FACTS!
In life, we have to accept the world as it is and NOT how we would wish it to be!…
Temptation………..
Temptation is as old as man. I am regularly tempted to make my absolute favourite mean: Macaroni cheese! I make…
Truth unto Power.
You know, there is something refreshingly honest about a political leader donning military uniform – when that leader is an…
The politics of Beetooeh…….
Yesterday’s blog-post (http://www.british-gazette.co.uk/2021/05/23/nul-point-again-so-send-in-the-clowns/) was a humorous commentary on post Brexit European politics. When in the 22nd Century, the history of…
Nul point (again): So send in the clowns!
The annual Eurofest that is the Eurovision Song Contest is well known for being “political”. The idea that ANY possible…
This is completely and utterly outrageous! Monstrosities such as this MUST be banned!!!!!!!
Today’s title is the reaction I’m guessing more than one out the BG’s local readers will have when they read…
Happy 115th Birthday!
PART ONE 4230 days (or 11 years, 7 months) ago on Trafalgar Day Wednesday, 21st October 2009 I set up…
Doing Nothing: Doing Brexit!
Busy Doing Nothing sung by Bing Crosby, William Bendix & Cedric Hardwicke. Featured in the film “A Connecticut Yankee in…