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Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic Ned Parfett, the young lad shown in the image above, was a 15-year-old newspaper seller in London. When he was handed copies of the Evening News to sell, he also received a large poster that he would hold up to display the headlines that evening. On that day,…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts The Man in Black The lane running alongside the Fordham house, close to Roc la Tour, led south to Tournavaux or west to Monthermé in the Ardennes Forest. It fell to Jessie, as she had always done since her early teens, to…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Ouvrage Schoenenbourg At the fortified outpost of Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, part of the fortifications that made up the Maginot Line, the Germans were playing with Capitaine Bertold’s small company of French soldiers. Bertold suspected snipers were playing games, seeing who could put a…
I’ve lived in Cyprus for fourteen years, moving to here from England in 2008. Up until last night I had experienced one meze (a meal of many parts found all around the Mediterranean Sea) and that was a marathon meal. It was so filling; I haven’t felt the need for another Meze since. That is…
Cows do it. Pigs do it. Even men in silly wigs do it, let’s do it, let’s gas it off. If farting’s good enough for Geoffrey Chaucer (he used the word in his writing) then it’s good enough for me. A fart is a fart, though in England in 1632, they were a little more…
Treasonist: Someone who betrays his country by committing treason. Throughout history there have been many instances of men and women who commit acts of treason against the country of their birth or their adoptive country. In the fledgling United States of America trouble was brewing when a new tax was introduced. Two simple men from…
Tomorrow is chemo day, again. I’m under no illusions, it’s going to give me a wide-ranging set of ups and downs for the next few days. I’m used to it. What I’ve been finding difficult is the lack of information about how long I’m going to be having chemo for. The nurses and doctor are…
The title of this post is innocent, but the content behind the subject matter is palpably sinister. I of course refer to that Mediterranean meal that is designed to pounce on unsuspecting and carefree travellers. If you have no idea what a Meze is, then read on. It starts with a simple question when you…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts July 1939 – Basil Shoots the Breeze It was a long drive and Basil, being Basil, decided he needed to stop as the light was fading. Truth be known, the light wasn’t fading, it wouldn’t fade for another two hours. But Basil…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Secrets Albert steered his Citroen 7 through the wide street of the Rue de Rivoli, turning left into a side street. The erratic swish-swash of the windscreen wipers toiling to clear the fine spray of drizzle constantly landing on the screen made…
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