April, 2011

If you read this blogsite regularly (and you should, you should, you’ll feel better and have nicer skin)  I recently recalled 1952  when my class was allowed out of school to see a film.  It featured Elizabeth Alexandra  Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (although she may have gone under a different name then) and a trip she made […]

If you read this blogsite regularly (and you should, you should, you’ll feel better and have nicer skin)  I recently recalled 1952  when my class was allowed out of school to see a film.  It featured Elizabeth Alexandra  Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (although she may have gone under a different name then) and a trip she made […]

I’ve known just two informers in my life – or at least two that I’m aware of. Eamon Collins (no relation) was an IRA intelligence officer who turned supergrass. I knew him when he’d left the IRA and was studying at the University of Ulster. He was a stocky, vivacious man who’d been told by […]

I’ve known just two informers in my life – or at least two that I’m aware of. Eamon Collins (no relation) was an IRA intelligence officer who turned supergrass. I knew him when he’d left the IRA and was studying at the University of Ulster. He was a stocky, vivacious man who’d been told by […]

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I was on TV last night. Granted, if you blinked or scratched yourself you’d have missed me but I WAS on. I must  – some other time – go into the whole matter of how some people who see you every day believe you take on a new, more concentrated life when you are part […]

I was on TV last night. Granted, if you blinked or scratched yourself you’d have missed me but I WAS on. I must  – some other time – go into the whole matter of how some people who see you every day believe you take on a new, more concentrated life when you are part […]

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is on my mind today – I’ve got to meet a man later this morning for an interview about her. Elizabeth and I go back a long way. When she was made Queen Elizabeth II by the Grace of God, an old aunt of mine who’d spent a lot of years […]

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is on my mind today – I’ve got to meet a man later this morning for an interview about her. Elizabeth and I go back a long way. When she was made Queen Elizabeth II by the Grace of God, an old aunt of mine who’d spent a lot of years […]