I know little about The Royal Marines. My paternal grandfather is my only connection to this group, though he never was a member of them (that I am aware of). He lived in Gillingham, now part of Chatham UK, and was the home of Marine barracks. I recently found on Twitter Clive Holden who is…
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And we’re home
Dorothy clicks the heels of her lovely and now famous red shoes while reciting, as directed, “there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home!” With that of course she is spun up into the air and suddenly is back on her bed with Auntie Emme! If only getting home was that easy! Our…
A reunion
So I’m going to date myself here. In 1969 we moved, as a family, to Scarborough. We had been in Hamilton for the previous three years and I had never heard of Scarborough – Toronto yes, Scarborough no. It wasn’t long before I began to understand how the boroughs worked. Toronto as a whole was…