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William Day is currently at the top of my Day tree. I was very lucky to have a ‘Day tree’ c/o my Day grandfather back in […]

This is the feast day of St Luke, a doctor by profession and the writer of the third gospel of the New Testament (and quite possibly, […]

Do you ever get that feeling that your task list will just never end? Do you feel like you spend your whole life writing lists? We […]

Don’t we all! Twenty-seven years ago, he told weather viewers to ‘ignore rumours of a hurricane’…. Oh how wrong he was! Hurricane winds battered southern England […]

You know those days/weeks/months when it seems like nothing is going your way? The times when you seem to work longer hours than ever but the bank […]

Today is the birth date of Éamon De Valera, Irish ‘rebel’ and later, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland. He was born in […]

Sir Henry Irving, the first actor to receive a knighthood, died today in 1905. Born John Henry Brodribb in Keinton Mandeville, Somerset in 1838, the year of Victoria’s […]

Augusta Matilda. Thank goodness that the Baker family picked their children’s names carefully. Well, the girls at least…. Augusta was the fourth born child of five, […]

The flagship of King Henry VIII’s navy – named after his sister – the Mary Rose was built in 1509, the year Henry came to the throne. In […]