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Well, that's a third of the year gone already! Is it just me or is time going faster? Sure feels like it. "Thank you, Oliver" Oliver Howes was out walking with his dad, Julian, in central London when he spotted the man-hole cover in the pavement (that's a sidewalk for our American readers!...

Hello everyone. It's been a strange month. I started off in Florida, where it was warm and pleasant. I went to the Tuesday practice day of The Players Championship (the richest PGA golf tournament of the year) that takes place just up the road from our house. The next day I flew to England and watch...

Hi folks. Happy new month. I hope you were able to see the spectacular planetary alignment this evening. This is a very short note, I'm afraid. I've been back for only half the short month. There hasn't been much in the news this month about people with our name. Thank you I do want to say thank you...

Hello everyone. As you can see from my email, I'm in the Deep South! For the last two weeks, I've been away from Florida. My wife and I flew from Florida to Santiago, Chile, where we spent a few hours before flying farther South to Punta Arenas and thence to Puerto Williams, the southernmost airport...

Hi folks, and a happy new year to you and yours. I got to spend Christmas with much of my family. It was wonderful to see how my youngest granddaughter is growing, playing and learning to have fun interacting with other people. I may have said this before but it bears repeating: one of the joys of b...

Hi everyone. I do this every year! i forget to wish our Canadian correspondents a happy Thanksgiving in advance of October and the same to our Americans in November. Apologies. I've been fortunate enough to spend the holidays with my younger son and his family in Massachusetts. Turkey, cranberry sau...

Sorry for the late arrival of the newsletter this month. Wrists have been slapped. The last few days have seen me in seven different medical and dental facilities, some more than twice! Nothing serious - it just all happened at once and set me back, especially yesterday. One of the drawbacks of livi...

Happy new month, folks. This is a only a short note, I'm afraid. The reason is that during each month, I store ideas for the newsletter in a program called Evernote. i use the free version. Evernote wants to make money - a laudable goal with which I have no problem. They frequently use pop up screen...

Hello everyone. Two-thirds of 2024 gone. Seems like Christmas was just a few weeks ago! We have a new web page! Earlier this month, I was contacted by a gentleman named Kevin Keegan - no, not the footballer! This Kevin is a board member of the Dennis Historical Society (DHS) on Cape Cod and he was p...

Hello everyone. Happy new month. As usual at the end of July, - I’m in the middle of a regatta week at one of the local sailing clubs here on the Norfolk Broads. - The newspapers in the Northern Hemisphere are in their summer season with not a lot of substantive news or even commentary regarding peo...