Kirsty Gray
17th April 2014
No, no, no, no, no! I will not be discussing any South Africans today. Too many of the news headlines are being sent that way at […]
16th April 2014
The options are endless for November. It’s the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the […]
15th April 2014
From a slightly odd selection for L, M in the phonetic alphabet gives so many opportunities for today’s waffle…. I mean blog! There are simply hundreds […]
14th April 2014
One of those funny things about words…. lima, lemur…. when you say them, they sound very similar. I wonder how the phonetic alphabet came to use […]
13th April 2014
On 26 May 1884, in the market town of Tavistock in Devon, Thomas John Oats was born. Son of William Henry and Elizabeth Jane (nee Petherick) […]
12th April 2014
Spending the weekend at the 35th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Guild of One-Name Studies, is a kilo of fun! I know…. doesn’t quite […]
11th April 2014
Juliet…. oh heck…. that reminds me of GCSE English Literature. Thankfully, I had the dubious pleasure of Macbeth as opposed to Romeo and Juliet but having […]
10th April 2014
Indigo has been a bit of a challenge to blog about! Having found that there is an airline called IndiGo – a leading domestic and international […]
9th April 2014
The most famous fictional hotel in the UK has to be Fawlty Towers. First broadcast in the 1970s, the show was written by John Cleese and […]