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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, exhibits.

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We have been to the museum on a number of occassions to attend events such as Art Deco fairs, but I had not been around the displays. Th...

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, externals

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Friday of last week. I have commented recently on the mud and water logged fields make hill walking unpleasant, well, the situation is on...
Friday, 12 February 2016

Verdun and "Theeb"

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Yesterday morning, I gave my talk "The Battle of Verdun, February to December 1916" to my local U3A Military History Group. We l...
Thursday, 4 February 2016

U3A Verdun and "Defending York"

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Tuesday I started a run-through of my draft talk on the Battle of Verdun, however, after 60 minutes I had been through the strategic decisio...
Sunday, 31 January 2016

"Spotlight"

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We drove into York for the midday showing at Cityscreen. A fine film, a little worthy perhaps and not much action (no gun firing or ca...
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Sunday, 24 January 2016

Mud everywhere

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During the last two weeks, the rain has relented and the rivers and streams have returned to more usual flows, but fields and paths are stil...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

"The Revenant"

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Trip to the Cityscreen cinema in York yesterday, on my own as B did not wish to see this film, but I did meet a friend there, unplanned, so ...
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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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