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Writer and blogger. Quirky, light-hearted observations on life, science, history, books, gin, and non-league football. Latest book More Curious Questions

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Delighted that my new book, More Curious Questions, has now been published @AmazonKDP #KindleBooks amazon.co.uk/dp/B09K2QTDSK/r… Discover the stories behind some of life's intriguing mysteries. If you would like a free sampler, DM me with your email address
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Hot off the press @official_FGFC #printedprogramme @NLprogs #nonleague #nonleaguefootball
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Match ready as @official_FGFC host @lymingtontownfc in the @WessexLeague Div one #NonLeague #nonleaguefootball
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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… An #advertising campaign that encouraged #children to #wash with #soap by launching #soap carving #competitions #history
Soap Sculpting

Soap Sculpting

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you can lead a child to the wash basin but you cannot make them wash with soap. A parent’s battle to get their little angel to grasp the basics of person…

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The story behind #Halloween2026 windowthroughtime.wordpress.…
Halloween

Halloween

Halloween, a corruption of All-Hallows’ Eve, is a glorious gallimaufry of pagan and Christian traditions. Straddling the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice, October 31st …

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… My thoughts on After Midnight #CrimeFiction #BookReview
After Midnight

After Midnight

A review of After Midnight by Helen Nielsen – 260908 Continuing my exploration of American detective fiction, I came across Helen Nielsen’s After Midnight, originally published in 1966, the first o…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… A club in #Paris where in the late 1840s the #intelligentsia experimented with #hashish #drugs #France #History
The Club Des Hashischins

The Club Des Hashischins

Meeting regularly between 1844 and 1849 on Ile St-Louis at the Hôtel de Lauzun, the rented townhouse of painter and musician Fernand Boissard, the Club des Hashischins (the Club of the hashish-Eate…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… The story of #Autochrome, regarded as the most accurate representation of #colour #photography #history
Autochrome

Autochrome

The world is polychromous, not that you would know it from looking at the earliest photographs. The astonishment of seeing an image captured on a piece of paper was tinged with the disappointment t…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… The story of the #SSNormadie and how it's demise signalled the end of the truly luxurious #transatlantic #liner #ships #history
The Rise And Fall Of SS Normandie

The Rise And Fall Of SS Normandie

Two things happened in the 1920s that were to have a profound effect on the transatlantic shipping business. First, the USA had all but closed the door to migrants, limiting the flow of European im…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… My thoughts on The Men in her Death, reissued by @DeanStPress #CrimeFiction #BookReview
The Men In Her Death

The Men In Her Death

A review of The Men in her Death by Anne Morice – 260905 After reading a book that has failed to meet my expectations, I find the best thing to do is to go back to something tried and tested, which…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… Know your #transis from your #gisants? #tombs
Transi Tombs

Transi Tombs

Do you know your gisants from your transi? We are familiar with grandiose mediaeval tombs, proudly displayed in alcoves and nooks and crannies in cathedrals and abbeys, showing an image of the dece…

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A rather wet but not yet windy @AshUtdFC as they take on @AmesburyFc in the @WessexLeague Div one #nonleaguefootball #nonleague
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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… With the end of #BritishSummerTime tonight, a #clock that tells local time and national time #Bristol
The Clock That Tells A Story

The Clock That Tells A Story

In an age when the position of the sun was used to tell the time, the fact that it was noon in one place did not mean that it was noon elsewhere. Sitting about 2 degrees 35 minutes west of Greenwic…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… My thoughts on Lift Up The Lid #CrimeFiction #BookReview
Lift Up The Lid

Lift Up The Lid

A review of Lift up the Lid by Anthony Gilbert – 260903 Lift up the Lid, which went by the alternative title of The Innocent Bottle, is the eighteenth novel in Gilbert’s Mr Crook murder mystery ser…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… Wearable #tech is nothing new as these attempts to fuse #electricity with #fashion show
Lightning Fashion

Lightning Fashion

Benjamin Franklin’s discovery in 1747 that lightning was a form of electricity and that its power could be negated by earthing it with a rod surprisingly gave the fashion industry an unexpected fil…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… My thoughts on The Magic-Lantern Murders, reissued by @BL_Publishing #CrimeFiction #BookReview
The Magic-Lantern Murders

The Magic-Lantern Murders

A review of the Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson – 260831   What do you do on the night before your wedding? Have a quiet meal with a few friends and relatives or, perhaps, a few …

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… How the ever-present risk of #dresses catching fire led to the development of #nonflam #flannelette #clothes #history
Flaming Ballerinas

Flaming Ballerinas

It is always an artist’s dream to put on an incendiary performance but for ballerinas in the mid-19th century it was a living nightmare. Playing Zelika in the ballet The Revolt of the Harem, at the…

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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… My thoughts on The Cape Cod Mystery #CrimeFiction #BookReview
The Cape Cod Mystery

The Cape Cod Mystery

A review of The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Attwood Taylor – 260828 My exploration of Golden Age American detective fiction continues with my first dip into the world of Asey Mayo, dubbed the Codfis…

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Headline from my Non-League Paper column today where I describe my trip to the Isle of Wight to visit Britain's newest football stadium @Newport_IW_FC @official_FGFC @WessexLeague @WightFibre @NonLeaguePaper @VisitIOW @ThoseWhiteLines @NonLeagueCrowd @HampshireFA_CEO @Flwessex
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windowthroughtime.wordpress.… Not a challenge but a piece of #French #health advice in 1954 #France #wine
A Litre Of Wine A Day

A Litre Of Wine A Day

“No more than a litre of wine a day” sounds like a challenge rather than a piece of public health advice but, strange as it might seem, it was the strap line of the “Santé Sobriété” campaign run by…

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After a sticky start and a comedy goal a commanding performance and comprehensive 8-1 win for @official_FGFC
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