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River Cruise on Board M.C. Belle, August 31st, September 1st, 1937
31.8.37 This morning we had our usual swim, the weather being lovely and warm with the sun shining. We had breakfast and cleared the boat up and went to fetch milk from the farm. We then made our way...
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The morning before he left
My father Donald was called up to join the army in the summer of 1939, before war was actually declared. He lived in Cambridge with his parents Reuben and Maud who had the Portland Arms Hotel on the...
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Pin, firkin, kilderkin, barrel, puncheon, tun, hogshead and butt
When I was at school, on the back of our exercise books were tables of measurements, and I used to turn my book over and read them, bemused and entranced by the old-fashioned names. I was reminded of...
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Swans… can they really break a man’s arm.
I grew up near the River Cam, and it was an important place for me during my childhood, biking beside it and over it, walking by it, swimming in it, boating on it, fishing in it… and spending so much...
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River Cruise on Board M.C. Belle, August 31st, September 1st, 1937
Continuing the reposting of my dad’s diary, that he and his friend Sammy kept as eighteen year olds when they hired a motor launch and cruised up the River Cam in 1937: 31.8.37 This morning we had our...
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