Monthly Archives: March 2016

It’s goodnight from me … and it’s goodnight from him.

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

These days so many of us watch or have to watch people with little talent on a Saturday night trying to sing, dance or make us laugh. It wasn’t so long ago that our Saturday evenings were spent watching people … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool Britannia, Funny & Humour, television | Tagged Comedy, Funny, Its goodnight from him, Life, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Sorry, television, The Two Ronnies, TV | 3 Comments

The tragedy of Smalls Lighthouse

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

There have been lighthouses around the coasts and islands of Great Britain almost as far back there have been people travelling by ship. A fine Roman lighthouse of nearly 2,000 years is still standing tall within the walls of Dover … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history | Tagged British, history, Life, Lighthouse, Royal Navy, Smalls Lighthouse, Strange but true, Tragedy of Smalls Lighthouse, Trinity House, Wales | 17 Comments

West Kennet Long Barrow – A 6,000 year old burial tomb

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

Yesterday I was lucky that I got to spent my Easter Good Friday with two families from Salt Lake City and we went on one of my favourite tours to some of the UNESCO sites near Stonehenge, Avebury Stone Circle, … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Photography, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Avebury, Druids, Lacock Abbey, Life, Photography, Stonehenge, Tours, Travel, vacation, West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire, Ye Olde England Tours | 6 Comments

Do Chimps Believe in God?

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

As Good Friday nears and Easter beckons to many as well as Passover to many others, it might come as a surprise to you that recent studies have indicated that a group of Chimpanzees have been studied and a series … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Faith, Science and Engineering | Tagged Africa, Animal rituals, Anthropology, Chimpanzees, Chimps, Death, Do animals believe in God, Easter, God, Laura Kehoe, Life, religion | 5 Comments

Khutulun – The Mongolian Wrestling Princess

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

The name of Khutulun might not mean much to people today in the Western world but in an age when there is still much debate about the equality of sexes, gender roles and stereotypes, we really all should be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, history | Tagged 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History, history, Khutulun, Kindle, Mongolia, The Mongols, The Promise, war, Wrestling | 8 Comments

Pull up a chair!

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

For the second time in a few days, the blog I wanted to write didn’t happen. Today I was going to write a blog on ‘Words’ It was one of those blogs that came easy to me and didn’t require … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, writing, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Blogging, creative writing, history, Kew, Kindle, Life, News, Radio, Research, V1 Vixen, writing, Ye Olde England Tours | Leave a comment

Animation of Allied bombing raids on Nazi occupied Europe

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

I was going to write something entirely different today and indeed had even started writing it when I happened across a segment of this newly released animated video by the Imperial War Museum in London which I thought many others … Continue reading →

Posted in history, London, WW2 | Tagged D-Day, Germany, history, Imperial War Museum, RAF, The Blitz, United Kingdom, USAAF, Video, war, World War 2, WW2 | 5 Comments

7 Songs to have a good cry with

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

Songs to have a good cry with. Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Popular Culture, Religion and Faith | Tagged Christina Aquilera, Coldplay, Death, Depression, Johnny Cash, Life, Loneliness, Mama, Music, sadness, The Verve, Video | 6 Comments

Are British really obsessed with weather

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

Earlier this week I posted about whether the widely known stereotype of us British having bad teeth had any validity? In the end, it had none at all and we can rest easy knowing there are few with more healthy … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool Britannia, geography, Life, Popular Culture, Uncategorized | Tagged British Problems, England, Life, London, Snow, Stereotypes, Travel, United Kingdom, Weather | 9 Comments

Do the British really have bad teeth?

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Stephen Liddell

This week I thought that I would write a few articles regarding stereotypes of what others around the world think of us British. Some of them are well-founded and some of them are less so. Today, I’d like to get my … Continue reading →