Guest Blogger – Shanghai Jimmy

My friend Jim sends me this quite fantastic picture.

Not only that he also sent this explanation:
“Hi Robert,
I don’t know if you have seen this attachment before. I first saw it in a football book I had in the mid seventies.
It is a wood engraving first published in the Pictorial World in March 1883. [...]

Remembrance

I was busy on Sunday oganising a lunch for my mother’s 80th birthday party. It wasn’t until some relatives, who had come from the other side of Glasgow, remarked that they’d seen the remembrance parade in George Square when changing trains that I “remembered” it was remembrance Sunday.
I reflected that I had the luxury of [...]

Drunk Boris Tried to Hail Taxi in His Underpants

I must admit that when I saw this headline, it conjured up another gaffe prone Boris:

But the article referred to the original maverick politico of that name:

Ananova reports the following:
“Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a US visit he was found outside the White House in his underpants, trying to hail a taxi as he [...]

One After 909

Here we are.
It’s 1009.
You know what? amidst all this Beatles hoo ha I’m beginning to really like them!

Happy Birthday

4th September 1998  Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

One For Anoraks

The audio tracks in my previous post were taken fromthefreeinfosociety which has a fascinating series of historical MP3 files.
For instance:
John Lennon tries to explain what he meant. CLICK HERE.

Seventy Years Ago

Chaberlain’s Declaration of War. Click Here.
Nearly five years previous to Chamberlain’s broadcast, in November 1934, Winston Churchill said this:
Winston Churchill, the threat from Nazi Germany – Click here.

Between the Wars

Seventy years ago today Germany invaded Poland and signalled the outbreak of World War 2 a mere 21 years after the end of “The Great War” also known as the war to end all wars, the horrific 1914-18 war.
My parents’ generation defined historical matters by the war in which they had endured national service, rationing, [...]

Ruthven Barracks

I visited this historic building just outside Kingussie whilst on holiday. After the 1715 Jacobite rebellion four such barracks were built in the highlands, the British government being determined to assert the crown’s authority in the area that presented its biggest challenge (plus ca change..)
It was here the  rebellion bgun in 1745 ended in 1746 [...]

One Giant Leap

It was forty years ago today.