Inspire-Film “Just Mercy”

When you are retired there is more time to see and do things.  This was a potentially dreary wet weekday.  We have in the past been to see live presentations of theatre production.  This time it was a newly released film.   Just Mercy- Starring Michael Jordan, Jamie Fox.  It is the true story of  Bryan […]

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Photography-Christmas

Its only 9 days to go till 25th December and the preparations are getting very intense. During a recent visited London there was an opportunity to take a few photos. First the West End   Bond Street   These are views of St Paul’s Cathedral The front of  St Paul’s. Although it looks like a […]

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Imperial War Museum-Things to discuss

I hope you’ll appreciate that there are no photographs from the Holocaust Gallery of the Imperial War Museum London  to accompany this piece.  Partly it is the ruling from the Imperial War Museum and also because the images themselves are quite disturbing. The gallery was only recently revamped and shows how the Holocaust developed from […]

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Money- “Makes the World Go Around”

We saw a fascinating display at the Museum in Gdansk recently.  It was a mock up of a bank from the 1930’s.  Although it covers a period that was in the early part of last century we are still affected by it. These are pictures to depict what it was like in Germany during the […]

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Inspire-Google, Black Hole to Swiss Cheese

It was a trip to Birmingham along the M40 and then onto the M42. As always, we relied on Google Maps.  This has worked fine in the past. There was a steady stream of lorries to pass.  Until that is one of the lorries decided it was going to overtake another lorry- fair enough you […]

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Iraq 2003- Imperial War Museum

This is the second part of a piece written about the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.  The first tells the story of Katherine Gunn who acted as whistle blower and released a memo showing how the Government was trying to influence the debate in the UN about the possible invasion The Imperial War Museum London […]

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