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Frying tonight…

Sometimes i feel like a priest in a fish & chip queue quietly thinking as the vinegar runs through how nice it would be to buy a supper for two. Vinegar by Roger McGough As English… Read more »

Food, Nostalgia, Popular Culture, Posts, Social History   

Eyeballs in the sky

My mum and dad didn’t talk about politics much – I was introduced to socialism by my maternal grandad – a retired railwayman, and a socialist to his fingertips. He… Read more »

London, Nostalgia, Popular Culture, Posts   

What’s in a name?

I answered quite happily to the name Michael until I was about thirteen when I  decided I’d prefer to be known as Mike. If nothing else it was quicker to write and easier to spell. My… Read more »

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Serviette or Napkin

It is one of the burning issues of our age, whether a properly brought up person (like what all readers of this blog are certain to be) should refer to… Read more »

Food, Language, Popular Culture, Posts, Social History   

On the back of an envelope…

When I was about fifteen – living in Somerset – I discovered penfriends. I can’t remember much about any of them and the long distance relationship was generally very short-lived…. Read more »

Nostalgia, Posts, Social History   

Salad Days

Sir John Evelyn, best known for his diary, was also a vegetarian and a fan of salads and would hopefully have approved of the salad pictured above. His 1699 book… Read more »

Food, Nostalgia, Posts, Social History   

They flog horses – don’t they?

The writer of Ecclesiastes observed that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but he’d probably never tried to buy tickets online… Read more »

Posts, Social History   

Ballad of Bethnal Green

‘Extraordinary how potent cheap music is’ observed Amanda, a character in Noel Coward’s Private Lives.  It’s also extraordinary how a piece of music you haven’t thought about for decades suddenly chirrups back into… Read more »

Nostalgia, Popular Culture, Posts   

A Taste of India – possibly

When the first dedicated Indian restaurant – the Hindoostanee – was opened in London in 1809 by an enterprising immigrant called Dean Mahomed, it boasted of “Indian dishes, in the highest… Read more »

Food, Nostalgia, Posts   

Always leave them wanting more…

I can’t really understand the appeal of ‘binge-watching’ –  viewing a complete tv series (or box-set) in one sitting. This is clearly an example of the modern desire for instant… Read more »

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LIFE

  • This is Illyria lady…
  • I bid you goodbye
  • Life in the Lockdown
  • The Corona Man Cometh
  • The wine is corked…

HISTORY

  • Not Forgotten Yet
  • The Story of the Unknown Warrior
  • Two Minutes Silence
  • Silent Cities
  • Iconic Photos 1: Disaster at Balham Station
  • Horatio Bottomley – the soldier’s ‘friend’
  • Battlefield Pilgrimage
  • Peaceday 19 July 1919

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