Birdlog: Blackcaps are back!

Continuing my look back over the 5 years of the blog. This was certainly a highlight for our garden (posted…

Roman Emporers: Severus Alexander

Born sometime around 207 AD, Severus succeeded his cousin Elagabalus, when the latter was assassinated. He was 15 years old…

The Canada Goose is one of our common resident geese, Introduced from North America from the late 17th century it…

This statue of General Gordon is located in the riverside park at Gravesend in Kent, close to Gordon Promenade and…

On Saturday Keith and I went to see The Barbarians (an invitational international side) play Argentina at Twickenham. The Barbarians…

Any regular reader will not be surprised that before very long in my look back to my early days on…

Keith and I were in Gravesend for an RSPB meeting and so we decided to make a day of it…

Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Last week I wrote on The Great Stink of 1868. By chance todays post is on…

John Franklin was born in Lincolnshire in 1786. He went to sea in a merchantman at the age of 12…

Gladstone was built at Brighton works in 1882 and saw service on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway until…