Entries with the tag: ‘Reminiscences’
When I first moved to London, (yes, London – not Kyrgyzstan), I took a week of my holiday before starting work to explore the city. Although I had visited London before, it was only on specific trips to attend a conference or visit a theater, or something like that. So, I bought a travel […]
Today marks the anniversary of the first transmission of the cult science fiction series Star Trek on BBC TV, back in 1969. The series had been proposed by Gene Roddenberry as early as 1964 and a pilot programme filmed in 1965. It finally went on the air in the states in September 1966 and although […]
Today marks the anniversary of the first ever “package tour” – on 5th July, 1841. It was offered by a certain Thomas Cook. The 33 year old cabinet maker, Baptist preacher and Temperance activist organized a special train excursion for 540 fellow Temperance workers to attend a rally in neighbouring Loughborough – eleven miles away. […]
The kids quite often have to produce reports for school, (called a Doklad or Referat). I well remember having to do these when I was at school, but they seem to have things a lot easier these days, (or is that just “old age” talking?). When we set the task of writing a report on topics like […]
Not long ago on Facebook, I was intrigued to see some posts from one of my cousins who has just moved house … to Malvern - my home town. It struck me as an odd coincidence because, although we are related, he’s never actually lived there before, so it’s not as if he was returning to […]
Most days the doorbell rings and a little old lady hands over the newspapers which I eagerly take, and start scanning before anyone else gets their hands on them, If I don’t, then there’s a good chance that I won’t ever get to see them as someone else will pick them up and that’s the […]
They say that first impressions are important. Well, I remember my first impressions of Bishkek … and I have to admit that they were not exactly good … although I think I fared better than Saffia Farr who describes her first impressions in her book “Revolution Baby“: the depressing and demoralizing, dark and dismal streets […]
The kids are not in school today … but it’s OK, it’s all official and above board – they are not playing truant. Today is a public holiday – Norus. Back in the UK, we tend to think of the Spring Equinox, (March 21st), as the first day of Spring – and, apparently, this identification […]
A few years ago. when I was living in London, a friend of mine had his mother visiting from New Zealand and he wanted to take to see a West End show. He selected a few and I asked if I would like to join them to go and and see one of them and […]
Mention D-Day and most people will automatically thing of the Normandy invasion on 6th Jume, 1944, when the allied forces landed in Northern France during the Second World War … and which eventually led to the collapse of Nazi Germany. In actual fact the terms D-Day and H-Hour are general designations used by the military for […]
