I got to thinking about the speed of sound this morning and wondered just how they were able to accurately determine what this was, especially without the latest technology that […]
I was browsing on YouTube over the weekend, searching for videos of music from my university days, and it made me ponder Did we REALLY listen to this? My browsing […]
We had a nice carvery yesterday at The Master Builder which is only a couple of miles up the road from where we live. The pub changed management a few […]
It’s quite easy to get fed up with life in the UK at this time of year, especially if the weather consists of sunshine and heavy rain. Granted it’s unseasonably […]
After all the fuss about Christmas and New Years, I very often find that January is a brain dead month for me, and 2014 is proving to be no exception. […]
The weather in the UK since at least a week before Christmas Day has been so bad it has me wondering when is this wind and rain going to end. […]
My Great Grandfather, Joseph Hurst, who you can see here, was just one of the influences in my desire to become involved in genealogy, to research my family history. I […]
The first time that I heard about any family connection to Thomas Hardy the famous author, was after my Mother passed away in 1997, and I had travelled back to […]
As 2013 comes to an end and a new year is about to start, I decided to revamp our site and to make a new beginning in 2014. This blog […]
It’s been six months now since I lost my writing Mojo, and so far I haven’t had any luck in getting it back. It’s not that I have any shortage […]