During my trip to the WW1 battlefields in September there were a number of places I wanted to visit for the first time and just as many as I wanted to revisit after a gap of several years. Thiepval though is one of the must-sees for the area, if there can be such a thing… Continue reading Paying homage at the Thiepval Memorial to family and strangers alike.
Tag: Life
The Walking Dead
Last year I wrote a number of Halloween related posts but this year I thought instead that I would write a little about my current favourite TV show which is very apt for Halloween, The Walking Dead. I’m not sure why I have always liked horror as a genre, I remember watching my first modern horror… Continue reading The Walking Dead
November is NaNoWriMo month
November is the month that can bring whoops of delight and shudders of fear amongst writers around the globe. It is of course NaNoWrimo or National Novel Writing Month for those not in the know. It is an event that brings hundreds of thousands of writers at all levels or experience and ability and leads… Continue reading November is NaNoWriMo month
The tragic genius of Alan Turing and The Imitation Game
If you’re not familiar with the name Alan Turing, the chances are that you soon will be with the release of the new film, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the starring role. Alan Turing holds a unique place in history as being someone who not only one of the greatest minds in… Continue reading The tragic genius of Alan Turing and The Imitation Game
The Lochnagar Crater and a relic of war
At the end of September I visited some of the WW1 battlefields in northern France and Belgium and thought in the lead up to Armistice Day on 11th November I would dedicate some of my posts to what I saw. One of the places that we visited was the Lochnagar Crater in The Somme. This… Continue reading The Lochnagar Crater and a relic of war
Edward Jenner – The greatest man you might never have heard of
This morning I received my free Flu vaccination and a time when nearly all of us are fortunate enough to receive vaccinations and inoculations for many illnesses from the winter flu upwards it is well worth remembering that there was once a time when people weren’t so lucky. When there were countless diseases and infections… Continue reading Edward Jenner – The greatest man you might never have heard of
An unapologetic guide to saying Sorry
When was the last time you said Sorry to someone? It’s not something that any of us like to do and it is something that many of us don’t do. Often it is the people who should say Sorry the most that do so the least. Saying sorry implies that you did something wrong and… Continue reading An unapologetic guide to saying Sorry
Dick Turpin Highwayman – Stand and Deliver
For millennia, travelling by land across the British Isles was a dangerous and slow business. Most people when they could travelled by boat on rivers and along the sea-coast and later by canals. Travelling by land was a slow and arduous thing to do at the best of times. After the Romans, the roads largely… Continue reading Dick Turpin Highwayman – Stand and Deliver
The death of the Aral Sea
Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world and half the size of England has over the last few decades almost totally disappeared. The Aral Sea sits in the middle of the Kyzylkum Desert fed by the two rivers, the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. It wasn’t really a sea but a… Continue reading The death of the Aral Sea
The Angel of Mons
Whilst writing and researching my WW1 history book, Lest We Forget, I came across a number of semi-mythical events and accounts that went from the completely unbelievable to those that actually occurred despite being hugely unlikely. There is the grim tale of the Crucified Soldier which went from being common knowledge in WW1 to increasingly… Continue reading The Angel of Mons
Stephen Liddell 