Month: Oct 2012

Written by jmcquaid0811

LONG TO ‘RAIN’ OVER US!

  PATRIOTS WE.   I wondered recently, if our beloved nonagenarian Queen Elizabeth was aware of the 100 or so almost frozen souls who were ensconced under the leaky tents or the sagging canvas sheets which had been painstakingly erected on the empty spaces of the little track which services the rear of our gardens, […]

Written by jmcquaid0811

AN AMERICAN IN MELTON MOWBRAY

…..   FOREWORD   People of a certain age in the market town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire will occasionally speak of a ‘murder’ which is said to have occurred in their town during the last world war when a local and popular tailor was brutally attacked and robbed of his meagre earnings at his […]