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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]