Windflowers

In the winter of 1140, the fortress of Weinsberg in Germany was forced to surrender. King Conrad, who had laid siege to the castle, decreed ...

It seems absurd, that while the sixth great extinction is underway, with species being eradicated from fish to butterflies to gorillas in ey...

I know it is sad to stand at a funeral and remember someone but in Gertrude’s case, she was really ready “to go to sleep and not wake up”, a...

My grandmother died aged 25 when my father was only 14 months old. One of the few photos we have is her sitting with him, a baby on her lap....

My grandfather was a brave character. He enlisted in World War I and when he gave his age of 16 years the enlisting officer told him to walk...

My grandfather rarely spoke about the War. I believe it was because what he’d seen and lived through was so awful words could not d...

It started by accident.  I got lost in Senglea in Malta.   That triggered a hunt for news in the archives of the British papers on ...

(first part of this story is given in   Sa Maison and Lady Lockwood  this is part 2) After a peaceful decade of living in Malta with he...