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ALL AT SEA WITH COVID-19

All at sea with Covid-19. The story of a hospital ship on the Thames.

Adam Miller, Castalia Ship, Hospital Ship Thames, Thames floating hospital, Tilbury Cruise Liners Covid-19

‘IF ONLY I’D ASKED’

Something light from the ginandgenealogy.co.uk

A Dry Gin January

My early prediction for this year is  that dry January 2021 will be low on participants.  I mean, does anyone in Tier…

Colonsay Gin, Dry January 2021, Kindred Spirits, Lussa Gin, Old Curiosity Apothecary Rose Gin

O’ndina, The Spirit of the Italian Riviera

This gin was Mr Ginandginealogy’s choice.  He picked it randomly for his lunchtime apertif  at The Narrow, the riverside restaurant beside the…

THE VIRTUAL GENEALOGIST

Very slowly and with caution archive offices are opening up again to the public following the lockdown period.  How this is…

Family History Fair, IHGS, Institute of Historical Research, Royal Historical Society, Society of Genealogists

EXPLORING AN EPIDEMIC THROUGH OLD NEWSPAPERS

These are strange and unprecedented times with the Covid 19 pandemic.  There have been pandemics before but not quite like this…

British Newspaper Archives, East Anglia Covid 19, James Maggs, Next Door Southwold, Southwold, Southwold Second Homes, Suffolk Chronicle, Using old newspapers

DRY WITH A HINT OF DUNG

For almost a month I have been in South Africa and what a busy time it has been. Cricket to…

Elephant Dung Gin, Grains of Paradise, Musgrove Pink Gin, Rooibos Red Cape Town Gin, Shamwari, Wawu Tonic

WALKING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS

I’ve spent the last couple of days at Rootstech 2019 at The Excel in East London.  This is a large exhibition…

'Charlie Harwood', Bragg Creek, Fairfoot Road, Harwood Street, Mabel Lockwood, Rootstech

The Theatre of Cricket

The Ashes have begun, the pinnacle of English Test cricket and the excitement of watching play is almost as exciting…

Buckhurst Hill, Charles Aubrey Smith, Ethel Miller Fennessey, First Ever Test South Africa, Hollywood Cricket Club, Oaklea School, Sussex CC

THE DAWN OF AURORA

It’s midsummer.  The festivals are underway, tennis is on the tv and poppies are sprinkled among the cornflowers in the hedgerows. …

Aurora gin, Fenlands distillery, fenspirits.co.uk, Royal Norfolk Show 2019

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