Honister Slate Mine

My now annual holiday to Nettwood Farm in East Harptree, Somerset was delayed because of a sad incident. The Viewing Platform burned to the ground at Christmas 2020.  This was doubly sad because it was the last remaining WW2 cabin in Britain. Debbie and Jeremy worked wonders and got Lookout Lodge, pictured above set up…

On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry the other passengers and I had a day out in Perth in the morning and Dundee in the afternoon. I visited Discovery Point in Dundee, where the ship RSS Discovery is moored. I visited the Discovery Point museum exploring all 11 galleries, and 9 audio-visual film shows with…

Two friends, Gillean and Irene, and I with our dogs, Maisie (mine) and Mitzi (Gillean’s) had a short holiday in Largs in July.  I drove and we stayed at the Woodhouse Hotel in Largs.  When we were there a son of Largs, Sam Torrance, a famous golfer came into the lounge and as you can…

I have been doing my family tree, concentrating on my paternal side. My grandmother, Rose, was an Emmett from Longridge in Lancashire. She was daughter of John Emmett and Alice Chapman. In a stroke of serandipity a DNA match with a man living in Canada, threw up clues to my Gran’s maternal family which I…

On day one we had a full Island tour and our driver was the knowledgeable Sean, originally from Yorkshire – but we did not hold that against him.  There are twelve parishes of Jersey (Les pâraisses dé Jèrri), all have access to the sea and share a name with their ancient parish churches.  We must…

We spent the Monday in Ljubljana, commencing with crossing the Butcher’s Bridge on which many “love padlocks” adorn the bridge, placed there by lovers as token of their love. After that we went to the old town and on the way called into the Ljubljana Roman Cathedral of St Nicholas (katedrala Ljubljana), like the other…