Just back from walking the dog on the Cotswolds hills. Heaven. (View Post)

Perhaps his mate Nigel could send him some pleasure boats from his base in Clacton, assuming he'll get them back in time for the holiday season. (View Post)

Matter of fact indeed. I read that and his other war letters for the first time about two years ago and as I read it I was mentally screaming 'Get into a shelter you crazy bastard.' But the… (View Post)

Here's an extract from a letter my Dad sent to my Mum not long after he'd been enlisted and was undergoing training at Stanmore: Usual address Mon Oct 14th 1940 My darling wife, I got away … (View Post)

I take it the Severn Years War was about control of the Bristol Channel. (View Post)