The Old Lady

Posted on 25/09/2016 By

The Old Lady & Bertie

“Please sir .. Have you got some change for a cup of coffee?” Bobby was sitting under a large umbrella in a pavement café in Spitalfields. Breakfast a pint of milk and a punnet of strawberries. Watching the world go by in the gentle rain. A relief for many after the heatwave.


September 1954

Posted on 18/09/2016 By

September 1954: Spitfires in Flight.

High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased…


September

Posted on 11/09/2016 By

Dreaming: Manx Shearwater in full flight.

September: Bobby’s Favourite Month. Bertie…….. September has always been Bobby’s favourite month of the year. For many reasons, to be shared with you this September over the next couple of weeks. It is a month of change. Summer drawing to a close. The promise of autumn and winter to come. A time when our wildlife…


Dreaming

Posted on 04/09/2016 By

Dreaming - A Happy Kyla May!

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we are in each other’s dreams we can be together all the time. Winnie the Pooh HRH the Countess of Wessex’s dream is an important one. She seeks to protect children from the many dangers that they now face via the…