Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Britain, History, Memoirs, Non-fiction, World War Two on Sep 3rd, 2009
… Neville Chamberlain broadcast that Britain was at war with Germany. In Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Juliet Gardiner she quotes from the diary of a twenty-four year old civil servant living in Croydon on 3 September 1939:
The sun is shining, the garden never looked lovelier – everything is in bloom. Tiger [the cat] lies there in [...]
Posted in Britain, London, Wordless Wednesday on Sep 2nd, 2009
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On our way north we drove past the Angel of the North at Gateshead - not too impressive seen from the A1, I thought. It’s 20 metres high with a wingspan of 54 metres!
If you want to make your own Angel here’s a knitting pattern – click on the picture to go to Gateshead Council (where I [...]
Posted in Britain, London, Wordless Wednesday on Aug 19th, 2009
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During last week’s heatwave we made one of our rare visits to London. I can’t remember the last time I went, probably it was over two or three years ago when I attended a course for work. Such visits meant travelling in by train, dashing to the course venue and seeing very little of London. So [...]
What with one thing and another (and another … ) I feel very behind with everything. I’ve not been at home much since July and the garden has gone wild. The only thing that is good in it really is the lawn and that is because Green Thumb have been coming along and feeding and [...]
Posted in Books, Britain, Non-fiction, Thursday Thirteen on May 1st, 2008
For a while now I’ve been reading “Thursday Thirteen” posts on a number of blogs and wondering about writing one myself. Until last week there was no theme to Thursday Thirteen, it could be whatever you wanted it to be. They have now introduced a theme, but I’ve been writing this list on books on [...]
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