On Sunday morning we drove to the village of Codford in Wiltshire. Codford was on the western edge of the Salisbury military training area in WW1. The New Zealanders established a military hospital here and it was for the treatment of those who would not be sent back to the front. Many who died at Codford died of disease; flu, meningitis, TB, infection, etc. There is a small ANZAC cemetery in a shaded area near St Mary’s Church in Codford. A majority of the dea...

Right. Welcome to the meeting. My name is Gwain. I’m chairperson of the Committee. The only outstanding item from the last meeting has to do with the poor quality of thatching in the past month. Now everyone knows that our master thatcher is on holidays and his apprentice is trying really hard. He’s a good lad but he’s as dumb as a bag of stone hammers and he likes his mead. So let’s cut him some slack until his boss gets back. Okay? Now for the main ite...

We stayed in a lovely B&B in St Just in the fat west of Cornwall. Had a meal at the Kings Arms where we were joined, uninvited, by a rather sad and lonely old man who wouldn’t shut up. He was a mandolin player originally from Scotland and now living in Bordeaux but visiting friends in Cornwall. Learned way to much about his ex-wife and children. He’d been to Australia to visit a niece and attend a world gathering of Camerons, his surname. When I went to p...

When I’m driving and Cath is navigating, even in Australia, I often say that we’ll end up in Cornwall. So, it wasn’t surprising that when we finally got to Cornwall we got lost. The last time we were touring by car in the UK we were visiting the villages of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire where British TV murder mysteries were filmed; Midsomer Murders, Agatha Christie and Poirot. This trip the car touring involves some of the locations for Antiques Roadsh...

From our hotel in Bloomsbury we walked to Kings Cross and picked up our hire car at Avis. I had booked the car and so I was designated driver. To add Cath as an additional driver was going to be another £13 a day. In Australia it’s free. To change Cath to the only driver meant cancelling my booking and making a new booking in her name. So I kept my booking as sole driver. Perhaps not the wisest move since I’m not a great fan of driving and Cath is geographic...