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Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Easingwold, Christpher Lee, cricket, Omar Sharif, Bladerunner

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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" What a weekend. Three weeks ago, I wrote that our landlord had deci...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Lorraine Trip - the Maginot Line

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To start - a very quick geography lesson. After Day 1 in Liege, we travelled to Thionville, a few miles north of Metz, for three nights...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Lorraine Trip - Vroenhoven Bridge

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On my recent trip to Liege and Lorraine, this was our first stop, the bridge at Vroenhoven. One of three bridges across the Albert Canal a...
Monday, 29 June 2015

"Mr Holmes"

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Yesterday we went to Cityscreen cinema in York to see "Mr Holmes". Ian McKellan plays Sherlock Holmes in 1947. He was living o...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

Lorraine Trip

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I'm back after a very good trip to Belgium and Lorraine to see the Maginot line, well not all of it, just six forts. A good mix of sites...
Sunday, 21 June 2015

Easingwold and "Jurassic World"

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A bit of a bad blow to us this week. In English property law, verbal arrangements count for nothing. We rented our current house for a yea...
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Friday, 12 June 2015

"Kajaki"

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I watched the film "Kajaki" yesterday. Very good, it felt very real. This is a film about contemporary warfare and the experie...
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Pierre le Poilu
YORK, England, United Kingdom
Recently retired, with a great interest in French history and fortifications,cricket, opera and classical music, food and film and now the time to enjoy them
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