(apart from the Spitfire, Reginald J Mitchell and oatcakes)

And Mel the Terrain Tutor!

I’m not often proud of my home town of Stoke-on-Trent (apart from the Spitfire, Reginald J Mitchell and oatcakes), but this story is hard not to be proud of…

The Story Of Lidice
On the 10 June 1942, Nazis entered the mining village of Lidice, shot 173 men, removed all the women and children and razed the village to the ground. The atrocity…

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That makes sense and it probably helps that Canada was one of the countries a lot of folk emigrated to (either to escape the war or post war).
It is something that is taken very seriously by all involved, especially the older generations who have had family directly affected by the war. There are a lot of sites where the local schools have adopted…[Read more]

That’s all for Spooktober / Orktober for this year folks.

I definitely had fun tinkering on my little project. I did forget to include the little red balloon for little Georgie or give him proper hands to hold it. The darkness managed to hide the lack of proper pants too 🙂
Still handed out almost 3 kilogram worth of candy to the kids brave…[Read more]

@limburger – I’m told, but have not attended, there are many Dutch-Canadian events from WW2 memory; every year, the Dutch send a massive amount of tulip bulbs to a place near Ottawa for continued friendship from the Liberation campaign.

Let’s hope those memories and traditions never cease 🇳🇱🇨🇦

I had instant coffee … with a shot of rum.
that was not terrible coffee at all 😀

Sunday. Had a very terrible coffee at a breakfast brunch.

Now XLBS with proper coffee