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Walking to Rome

This is Francis Plowden’s debut album. I hope you heard Lockdown Blues yesterday. He is a natural successor to Lance Percival whose improvised satirical calypsos were favourites of mine.

Le Château de Saulxures de Nancy

A Delightful Little Sin

On Monday we went to Toledo. It is just 33 minutes on the train from Madrid.

In Memory of Shane, 5th Viscount Gough

To the Guards’ Chapel this morning for a Service to remember Shane Gough.

Tommy’s Tales of Jenkinstown

“Many were the cheery happenings I witnessed in that most hospitable house (Jenkinstown).

A Dear Old Fashioned Irish House

I have been re-arranging some books to make more room for biography and fiction and came across this niche memoir published in 1932 by J Catherall & Co (Printers) Ltd in Hexham.