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In 1907, Robert Baden-Powell held a camp for boys at Brownsea Island in Dorset to test his ideas with regard to setting up a scouting movement. […]

Not being known to date as a conformist, tango – the dance – was a topic I was keen to avoid today. But finding out that […]

Sierra is Spanish for mountain range and also saw – oddly – originating from the Latin serra. Most of the place names incorporating the word are […]

Having done Romeo and Juliet earlier in the A to Z Challenge, research was needed to find suitable Romeo references. And I stumbled across a village […]

John Henry Sillifant was born in September quarter 1871 in Princetown (registered in the Tavistock Registration District). He was the third child born of Samuel and his […]

Oh to hell with it – let’s go with the blindingly obvious for once! Having been there many years ago (1999), I will soon be returning […]

The affectionate term for father or sometimes, grandfather, Papa – like Kilo – is also a class of submarine. It is a Soviet submarine K-162 and […]

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 […]

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 […]