Blogetty Blog 5: A Fine Romance.
This week’s episode relates the romantic details of a highly unusual love story. How many girls select their future husband at the age of seven? My Scottish maternal grandfather Colonel…
Blogetty Blog 3: Of Silver Bands and the Cresta Run
The entrance hall in Warnham Court, my grandfather’s house in Sussex – where I lived as a child with my parents, Geoff and Aileen, and my younger brother Rupert, as…
Blogetty Blog 2: What’s In a Name?
Soon after I was born my father decided to move his family from Warnham Court, my Grandfather’s house in Sussex, to London where he rented the house at 32 Walton…
Blogetty Blog 1: Reminiscences.
To market, to market to buy a fat hog, Home again, home again jiggety jog.English nursery rhyme by John Florio, 1958 I have somehow allowed myself to be persuaded to…