Monthly Archives: March 2025

Fifty years ago today

It was fifty years ago today that we raised the money for a new football strip. A sponsored walk – they were a new thing in 1975 – or maybe we were just behind the times. Fifty or sixty of … Continue reading

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Guilt

It’s five years since we bade farewell to my old dad. To be honest, neither he nor we expected him to reach the age of eighty-three.  A self-proclaimed grumpy old bugger, he was old Labour, anti-Royalist and fiercely patriotic. There … Continue reading

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