Years ago, I used to write all sorts on here about holidays, weekends away and days out. The truth is, I don’t get to do any of that any more. It’s been almost a decade since I had even a short holiday close to home. Last weekend however, I had two cancellations due to tourists… Continue reading The Winchester Plague Memorial Cross
Month: August 2022
My Freedom Ceremony at The Stationers Company
It was the day that everyone remembers and one which I had been waiting and preparing for for many months. My Freedom Ceremony at The Stationers Company. The only thing that I didn’t foresee was that it would be the hottest day in the history of London. I have a lovely heavy and quite fine… Continue reading My Freedom Ceremony at The Stationers Company
The Livery Companies of the City of London
Walking around the City of London as I do almost every day when I’m following in the footsteps of Romans, Vikings and various disasters as well as hunting out Secret Gardens, it’s hard to avoid some of the great halls in the Square Mile that belong to livery companies. There are 110 livery companies, comprising London’s… Continue reading The Livery Companies of the City of London
It’s a bugs life!
Do you know what bugs me about the summer. Not counting the incessant heat, everyone else going on holiday and everyone walking around in clothes that might fit Brad Pitt or Pamela Anderson but not so much for the sumo wrestlers amongst us… bugs! I don’t know what it is. I’m always so nice to… Continue reading It’s a bugs life!
How many gentle flowers grow in an English country garden?
Fear not as I am not going to start singing this old English folk song, let alone do the accompanying Morris Dancing. I’ve written before on my love of gardening and it was the garden here that partly inspired me to move in when Covid was starting. Back then the garden like the house was… Continue reading How many gentle flowers grow in an English country garden?
My New Doctor Who Tour
My Doctor Who tour that I planned out a few weeks ago was a big success so I have decided to create a new tour based upon it that visits various places across London to important filming locations of New Who and iconic spots from the Classic show also. As the Daleks and Cybermen… Continue reading My New Doctor Who Tour
Different words for a bread roll across the U.K.
One of the things I really like and am interested in are the different quirks and vagaries of every day life and language. Whilst countries such as France celebrate their regions and differences, too often in the U.K. such things are watered down or ignored leading to widespread ignorance of ancient traditions, foods and cultures.… Continue reading Different words for a bread roll across the U.K.
Going in search of Daleks in the backstreets of London
I noticed a few weeks ago the the old 1960’s Doctor Who films with Peter Cushing as the Doctor have been re-mastered in 4k for a re-release. I only mention it as one of the things that I always thought funny in one of those films is when the Daleks invade Britain and the Doctor… Continue reading Going in search of Daleks in the backstreets of London
Surviving the London Heatwave
Oh the last few weeks, months even have been annoyingly warm, even hot but this last week took the biscuit with scientific temperatures surpassing 40 degrees in London and quite a few other places in the U.K. though practicality, places like back garden were 47 degrees. London is only fractionally under the temperature threshold for… Continue reading Surviving the London Heatwave
Stephen Liddell 