Rover Scouting began in August 1918 when it was mentioned in The Scouting Gazette by Baden Powell, and was properly established by...

Carrying Fire: September 3, 1917-2017 This date, September 3, 201... : September 3, 1917-2017 This date, September 3, 2017,  marks the ...

Carrying Fire: Media coverage : My father's story has been carried in Utah's  The Deseret News  as well as  KSL News Radio .

Floods In Austria, courtesy of Daily Telegraph Sensationalist news. It's everywhere. TV, radio, newspapers, internet. The BBC is ch...

Tomorrow is November 11th 2018. 100 years since the killing stopped on the Western Front. On a more positive note it is also 100 years si...

I am guilty of not blogging for ages. There has been a fair bit of change in life recently, an operation followed by 4 months off work, am...

Brexit  I know I haven't written here for ages, since 2017, nevermind. I am pleased to see that people still visit this blog, t...

Just watching Guy Martin on Channel 4, that man is so enthusiastic about anything, in this programme he is busy making a replica tank. The t...

I read in one of the papers last week that Britain's national anthem had a line about crushing rebellious Scots. I thought it would not ...

99 Years ago on 11th November at 1100hrs the guns stopped. Four long years of bloodshed had ceased. The poppy remains a symbol of hope, res...