Archive for November, 2010

politics

The nation that wasn’t there…

I wasn’t clear on the exact location of the latest North Korean tantrum , so I enlisted the ever faithful Google Maps to precisely show me where the Kim Jong Ill minions were lobbing shells into civilians . Yeonpyeong Island is indicated in Red.  To be fair, the island has also yet to be mapped.  [...]

personal

Boer War Poem

My great-grandfather served in the Second Boer War (Crosby).  That is pretty much all I know. I found a letter when clearing my Aunt’s apartment (she recently passed at 99).    I also found a recruitment pamphlet that was sent to my great-grandfather in Manchester, dated November 1900. The letter doesn’t have a date, it doesn’t [...]