Month: February 2024

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Who went to your school?

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Nobody famous as far as I know. When reading reports of famous people or even unknown people attending a particular school, journalists are always looking at where they went to school. When I was at school the only person of note was a high court judge called Edmund Davies ( no relation ) it was sort of suggested that he was someone we could all to aspire to. Pop stars, criminals, writers and other such celebrities are amongst the sort of people who get a a mention, but not by the school only in the news item and sometimes in … Continue reading Who went to your school?

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Speaking to an Egyptian on a Sunday evening.

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My phone and internet provider have changed the landline. It’s now not a landline. Old tech is being phased out. Calls on my landline now come via the internet. It’s progress of a sort I commented to the charming Egyptian woman who was helping me sort out what to plug in where. “From now on” she said, “if you lose the internet you will not be able to make a call over the landline”. In effect I said, I no longer have a landline. After a while getting nowhere she then re-programmed my internet router, and now the phone works … Continue reading Speaking to an Egyptian on a Sunday evening.

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A day out in Huddersfield,bone dust and drama.

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I’m in the frozen north but it’s mildish. I came prepared for draughty railway stations with many layers. Living in the soft south has got me used to mild days in winter, and in the past I’ve been caught out on northern visits. It’s not that the cold is colder, but it is, it’s that there’s generally a wind blowing that gets under any flimsy coat and catches the kidneys. I’ve learnt my lesson and am prepared with layers that come below kidney level. I’m here amongst other reasons to visit my grandsons and to take trip up from near … Continue reading A day out in Huddersfield,bone dust and drama.

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Light years apart…

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8 miles apart but it’s light years really. Cheltenham is very close to Gloucester physically, but light years apart in reality. There are people in Cheltenham who have never ever visited the fine City down the road, thinking it a dark and dangerous place. I actually love Gloucester for all its rather ‘gone at the edges feel’, it’s full of history and the people are grand, and it has in built history in almost every step. Continue reading Light years apart…

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The Siege of Gloucester

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An afternoon out in Gloucester at the Folk of Gloucester a wonderful historic old building and the venue for the launch of a book about the Siege of Gloucester. One or two fine gentlemen and ladies in period costume made the day. There was a talk by the author but I was a bit late for class and missed that out, taking more interest in a flintlock musket, the sort that would have been used in the siege, when Gloucester’s parliamentarians resisted the surrounding forces of the Royalists. I have some sympathy even now as I’m not much of a … Continue reading The Siege of Gloucester

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“Severnprint Sales Office”: The Movie

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Taken some years ago this little movie has surfaced thanks to my former colleague Susan Morton, who was fortunately parked in the corner of our open plan office, so she could get it almost all in there. It gives a bit of a flavour of the bustle in the place when it was busy, which was most of the time. I’m not featured here, which is perhaps a blessing, I assume I was out somewhere looking for work. My colleague Andy, who seemed to think that my using the term “work” for what I did is doing some ‘heavy lifting’ … Continue reading “Severnprint Sales Office”: The Movie