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Shoreham Airshow 2007
Me looking brave before taking to the air (and the wing) of the plane. Wow, it was cold !! But the whole experience was totally exhilarating.
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Jan's Blog
Computers and the internet are amazing things. One of my concerns with putting together this site was that it could remain current, yet with all my travelling I've often much to say, but little time to say it. Years ago when reading the news it would take me days on end to reply to the kind letters people sent. Now, with the magic of the modern age, I can keep you up to date with what I'm doing and other events in my life.
END OF BATTLE GALA DINNER - RAF CLUB
Date: 31st October 2011
Again this year I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Gala Dinner which is held annually to celebrate the ending of the Battle of Britain (July 10th - 31st October 1940). It’s a lovely affair with most of our remaining Veterans in attendance. We have very few left any more - there are around 70... Read more...
BT AGAIN
Date: 30th October 2011
BT AGAIN I believe that if you complain, you should also praise. Although I am sorry I had to go through all the hassle and tension of taking my grievance to the highest places, I have to say that I have had the problem dealt with in an exemplary manner. Without wishing to make work for him, Christopher... Read more...
Cat on a Hot Tin Loo
Date: 24th October 2011
It isn't Tin but I thought it a good title. Goint to the Bathroom in the twilight and not putting on the light, I'm not sure who got the biggest shock - Tamby or me. I went to sit and came up against something furry - my cat had been helping himself to a drink. I wouldn't mind but he has... Read more...
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL - Open Evening 5th October 2011
Date: 16th October 2011
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL OPEN EVENING Where does time go? I hadn’t realised that it was almost two weeks ago when we had this most marvellous Open Evening at the Cathedral staged by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral. Apparently an Open Evening is held every year but I’d never heard of it. It... Read more...
RYE
Date: 15th October 2011
RYE Rye is a lovely little town - very historic and great to visit out of the Tourist season. It is a very quaint town boasting cobbled streets, was a great haunt of Smugglers and some places are reputed to be haunted like the Mermaid Inn. A friend recently lent me the Mapp and Lucia TV Series of which... Read more...
LYDD AIRPORT
Date: 14th October 2011
LYDD AIRPORT When I was nineteen, I had a rather adventurous Francophile boyfriend who had a little Sports Car - I think it was a Frog-eyed Sprite. I can still remember the excitement of driving down to Lydd Airport, loading the car as well as ourselves onto a small plane and flying to Le Touquet from where... Read more...
SOLITARY GRAVE ON THE ROMNEY MARSH
Date: 14th October 2011
SOLITARY GRAVE ON THE ROMNEY MARSH I’d been told about a Grave by the side of a little used road on the Romney Marsh and, as I was going to Rye recently, I asked my friends from the BOBMT if they could fill me in with directions. I was delighted to have found it. This is the story of the grave of... Read more...
BT Saga
Date: 13th October 2011
BT Saga Or in the words of Victor Meldrew - ‘I don’t believe it’. I phoned India (of course) on Wednesday to try and get an update on my defunct phone and received the information that nothing was being done as the phone connection on Monday had gone down. I was phoning on my PAYG mobile... Read more...
THE DREADED British Telecom - AGAIN
Date: 11th October 2011
BT - AGAIN My BT landline has gone down yet again for the third time this year. I only stay with them because I've been told that if you go to a cheaper provider and there's a problem with the line (owned by BT surprise surprise) you could wait weeks for an engineer because you would not be... Read more...
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ ROSE
Date: 3rd October 2011
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ - ROSE Went to some friends for lunch on Sunday and on the dining table was a small bowl of what I thought were artificial ‘Dog Roses’ - but they were real and were Jacqueline du Pré Roses - large and delicate with a pinky tinge in the middle. I was given one to bring... Read more...
AMBER
Date: 1st October 2011
AMBER I have been walking on Walmer Beach for over eight years and, apart from the odd pretty stone or geode with some sparkling crystal and the occasional dead starfish, have never found anything of note until yesterday. When I came to live down here I was told that occasionally after the high Spring... Read more...