Purist photographers, look away now…I'm posting these snapshots, blurred as they are, as they show something that I haven't seen before.Yesterday evening I was sitting in the garden reading "Guests of Summer" by Theunis Piersma. The book's subtitle is "A House Martin love story" and it is an account of house martins and other "swallow … Continue reading Noisy guests of summer.
I come here, to "blog", to satisfy an urge, to scratch an itch, to kid myself that I can write something that somebody else might want to read and that they might even enjoy reading it. Ofttimes, the muses coalesce, and I just bash away at the keyboard, and sometimes, something coherent comes out and … Continue reading Did you like it?
As some of you may know I'm not just a train buff, a railway nerd, oh no. I also hold my fair share of boat/ship nerdery too. In addition, I kid myself that I'm the creative type and I like to "keep my hand in" as it were. When I was at work, I had … Continue reading A Fine Romance
Titanic. RMS Titanic, the ill fated passenger liner.As a young boy, I was fascinated with the story of the Titanic. At primary school, when I was about nine or ten, probably younger, the school library contained a small set of softback books about notable ships. Amongst the titles that I recall were HMS Birkenhead, Cutty … Continue reading Titanic immersive.
The question is: What is your favourite holiday? Why is it your favourite? As a daily writing prompt, that's quite a good one, it certainly set me to thinking. It would be far too easy to say "Christmas" or "Summer" or Busman's", not that I'm having a pop at those who did. Obviously if your … Continue reading Bangalorious kerfuffle.
My introduction to the work of Isaac Asimov came with the seminal Sci-Fi novel "Foundation" which I bought as something to read (on the journey there and in my free time) during a school field trip to North Wales. I was seduced as I dare say many others have been, by the Chris Foss image … Continue reading The End of Eternity.
Bookage, artage, and ditchage or see a rabbit hole and dive down it…… I did it! I finally did it. I finished reading Shakespeare's "Henry V" and it only took me thirty-three years! I wrote last December of the books I was then reading, The Ongoing Bookage Situation, and of those books I opined that … Continue reading Bookage, artage, and ditchage.
With regard to the ongoing bookage situation, going forward I currently have five books on the go, and no margarine. I made the margarine reference before when writing about the number of books I had "on the go", it comes from the song "Two Margarines" by the redoubtable mister John Shuttleworth. Two margarines on the … Continue reading The ongoing bookage situation.
I've just finished reading the autobiography of Charles Herbert Lightoller DSC & Bar, RD, RNR. The book is called "Titanic and Other Ships" and is the story of Lightoller's career, first in the Merchant Navy and then in the Royal Navy during the First World War as a member of the Royal Naval Reserve and … Continue reading But it’s lucky, isn’t it?
I had six books on the go, now I only have three. Admittedly one was "only" a comic book, one was a volume of railway photographs with minimal text, and one was Dicken's "A Christmas Carol." "A Christmas Carol" then, yes, after decades of watching various versions of it on the telly I've read the … Continue reading Three books on the go.
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 