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On this date in 1783, highwayman John Austin was hanged at Tyburn for robbing and murdering John Spicer on the road to London. The village of Tyburn […]

And so, the return trip from Canada to London Heathrow Terminal 5 has begun. Due to the additions to my Canadian lecturing plans, I first have […]

‘….the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason, Should ever be forgot’. On this day in 1605, the conspirator […]

Sometimes I really wonder whether it’s me or you who is ’round the bend’, ‘crackers’, ‘a few planks short of a load’…. I thought it was […]

And so, having sat pixie-fashion on the floor in arrivals for just a few moments, Elizabeth spotted my bright purple case on the carousel, I pressed […]

… does it take to get me from Toronto to Ottawa? Well, I would have thought just the one. But yesterday, it would seem that two […]

Sorry FWL blog readers…. you will have to wait until tomorrow morning (my time, here in Canada) for the Jetsetting update. This jetsetter is quite frankly […]

What should have been so simple was made quite challenging earlier today when the nose wheel steering failed on my flight between Toronto and Ottawa….. hmmm…. great idea to change planes […]

To use a tagline of several fellow genealogists, ‘wouldn’t that be a good title for a book?!‘…. well, it will be in due course. But today, […]