Category Archives: Out and about

“Sir, who do you support in the war?” “Ukraine, obviously. But I would wish it all to end with as few deaths as possible. I don’t want thousands of Russian boys to die anymore than I would want thousands of … Continue reading →

“Down to the seas again,” when Miss Rabbage read the words by John Masefield, there was only one place that came to mind – Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis is a small and unassuming English seaside town, reached by a very … Continue reading →

The little boys were perhaps three and four years old. Sure of foot and determined to go their own way, they ran from the tarmac path towards the park’s playground. The sun was shining on a mild spring morning and … Continue reading →

Always a sceptical race, suspicious of innovation and resentful about change, it took the English one hundred and seventy years to accept the Gregorian calendar. Introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582, it was not introduced in England until 1752. The … Continue reading →

There was a moment of delight in discovering the entry for the village in the 1914 edition of Kelly’s Directory. The village life described had all but disappeared by the time of my childhood in the 1960s, but the family … Continue reading →