Tag: World War I

  • Harry Patch

    A weekend in Glasgow, of which more anon. In the midst of it all, sitting in a shop on Sauchiehall Street which sells salads and pianos,  we heard that Harry Patch had died. I read Harry’s book earlier this year. If you can, catch the poem written for him by Andrew Motion. Harry was the…

  • Hot

    Very hot yesterday, consequently Deep Sea World was relatively quiet when we went there with the Burgess family. In the afternoon we set off to find the western WW1 gun emplacements, which we did not visit last time. They are not as visible as the east set, but we took some pictures on the walk…