A trip around the World War I battlefields of The Somme - Lest We Forget In 2014 I was pleased to be among the group of people who were contracted to organise Albany’s Commemoration of the Centenary of the departure of the WWI troop convoy. As part of my research for the job I took the opportunity to visit the WW1 battlefields around Amiens, in the Somme Valley during a … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2015
My 30th Birthday, Ruth’s farewell from Hanoi
Or why I went to my 30th birthday party twenty years ago dressed as a railway line. It was my 30th and Ruth’s Hanoi leaving party and somehow she & I thought it was a good idea if theme of our joint party was ‘Structural Realism’. The vague idea that I had was that structural realism was an art genre. Vietnamese currency – the Dong - throughout the 1990s had pictures … [Read more...]
