
Pigeon holes
If you’d like to dig deeper into this random collection of rants, reflections and recollections, the “pigeon holes” below will help you browse stuff by year (eg 1939-45) and also by theme or category (eg coal mining, travel, India or Queensberry). ~ Ian
- 1800-50 (1)
- 1850-80 (3)
- 1880-1914 (4)
- 1914-18 (5)
- 1918-39 (44)
- 1939-45 (31)
- 1945-70 (27)
- 1970-2000 (25)
- 2000-25 (24)
- 2025-50 (3)
- Art & Design (2)
- Baugh Family (19)
- Boat Building & Design (7)
- Christianity/Religion (6)
- Coal Mining (8)
- Corness Family (1)
- Divisional Signals (7)
- Dorothy (2)
- Education (1)
- Family Life (16)
- Farming (16)
- Ferrocement (9)
- Gartmann Family (1)
- Great Depression (24)
- Handcrafts (2)
- Hospital (9)
- IT (1)
- Italy (1)
- Kauri Bushmen (7)
- Lamont Family (6)
- McCarroll Family (20)
- Military Training (2)
- North Africa & Mid East (7)
- North America (11)
- Post and Telegraph (1)
- Posts (19)
- Queensberry (5)
- Rants & Reflections (7)
- Real Good People (3)
- Ricketts Family (1)
- Scotland (4)
- Seymour Family (1)
- Sharpe Family (25)
- South East Asia (15)
- Travel (38)
- UK & Ireland (3)
- World War 1 (3)
- World War 2 (27)
- Wounded (6)
Blog posts by date published
- January 2026 (1)
- December 2025 (1)
- November 2025 (1)
- October 2025 (1)
- September 2025 (1)
- August 2025 (1)
- July 2025 (1)
- June 2025 (1)
- April 2024 (2)
- March 2024 (2)
- February 2024 (6)
- January 2024 (1)