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April Gleanings

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. ( The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon)

Grub’s Up

The peregrine falcons have hatched a chick. Azina, a young first-time mother, has learned how to feed her offspring. The chick has no eating disorder.

A Butter Knife?

“A butter knife”, I said, like Lady Bracknell enquiring about a handbag.

The Summer of 1936

Chips and Honor are in the thick of it in 1936.

March Gleanings

Rather more PG Wodehouse content in March as I have been helping prepare back numbers of Wooster Sauce for publication on the Society’s website.

Drummer in the Dark

Have you come across Arthur Thompson, DSO (1917 – 1975)?

The Siege

I’m 500 pages in; I’m in deep Chips and need a break. Instead of a Kit-Kat, I’m enjoying an Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Siege.

Travelling with Chips

Travelling with Chips in the 1920s (I have got to 1926) makes me appreciate the advantages of lockdown. He lives on a vapid, social merry go round.

Chunky Chips

I very much enjoyed Chips Channon’s Diaries, the 1967 edition. I was aware it was incomplete out of respect for people still alive.

Himself and I

My paternal grandparents left Ireland with my father in a hurry during the Troubles. They came back to Barmeath in 1938. Hitherto my grandfather had only been there on holiday as a child.

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