Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
It must have been the summer of 1961. Certainly before the Beatles. The music that year was all Dean Martin and the Drifters, or itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini. https://youtu.be/ICkWjdQuK7Q And I recall being in love with a girl in the 4th form at Queens’s school in Rheindalen, Carol, and constantly singing a... Continue Reading →
Rheindalen, a great sprawling British military garrison. Headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine and home to thousands of soldiers, their wives and children. And within fairly short distances from the garrison, massive Royal Air Force bases humming with technology, bristling with weapons and with armed fighter and bomber jets on permanent standby to... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 