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Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Four
Kirkby Stephen to Richmond This is the fourth part of my walk that I undertook with my father and friends across England from Coast to Coast. Part three is here. You can link back to the earlier posts from there. … Continue reading
Tipping Points: Baden-Powell, His Part In My History
Hindsight: you’ve got to love it, haven’t you? You look back on an event, and see the blindingly obvious. It was a watershed moment even if at the time it was the epitome of humdrum. If I listed the biggies: … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, family, gardens, law, miscellany
Tagged Bristol University, family, gardening, hindsight, law, memories
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Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Two
St Bees To Patterdale The start of any long walk was full of apprehension. Will the body cope? Will my companions cope? Will my relationship with my companions cope? It rarely involved any sort of ‘will it be fun?’ I … Continue reading
Christmas Traditions
My Christmases as a child were what we called traditional but everyone’s Christmas traditions have their own quirks, imposed by the characteristics of the participants. These are mine. 1. My father enjoyed a pint. Or several. He was an active … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, family, memories, quirks, traditions
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Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part One
‘Let’s do something a bit different next year.’ I should have known this would mean redefining the words ‘a bit’. Dad and I and a couple of his friends had just finished the fourth of our summer walking holidays. Dad … Continue reading
Posted in countryside, miscellany, walking
Tagged Coast to Coast, dad, long distance footpaths, memories, north downs way, walking
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To End All Wars? A Personal View
My father was born on the eleventh November. As a child that was Dad’s birthday; it contained nothing more resonant than that. At some point however, and I wouldn’t have been very old, I realised it was also Remembrance Day … Continue reading
Posted in family, memories, miscellany, WW1
Tagged memories, Military Medal, st Pol, the great war, thoughts, war, willi dyson, World War One
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Asking Questions Can Be Dangerous
As a lawyer in the field of property, one of the simple tasks, when buying a piece of land, is to ask what are called ‘Preliminary Enquiries’. These are a set of questions that aim to dig out any little … Continue reading
