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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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

OK so I have given in to the obvious today…. only because I managed to find some simply awesome information from just looking up ‘golf player’ […]

The most obvious thing to write about today would be the dance – well, yes. But why go with the obvious? Who knows about the American […]

Arthur Gosling was a name known to me from childhood as the loud chiming clock upon our bureau in the hallway was inscribed with his name: […]