Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

War sent the clock whizzing back

To young people now the war is just history, their grandparents were born after the war, sometimes even their great-grandparents were…It truly was a different world, a very different world and here in Britain where food supplies were cut off, husbands, fathers, brothers and sons away fighting and serving abroad and at home, women out […]

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Tree

This remarkable tree is in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.  it is the Tree of Somerset, and it’s carved from oak fwhich was grown on the nearby  Quantock Hills;  it shows scenes and events from the history of  Somerset’s history, but it reminded me of Yggdrasil, the huge mythical tree which connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology. […]

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