This is a black day,” says the director general of the Drents Museum, where burglars stole four gold objects including a helmet considered a Romanian national treasure.
Martin Allen, chairman of Shoreham’s Ropetackle, is in print with Love and War (Naval and Military Press, available from the publishers, from Amazon and from Waterstones).
Uncles are the family’s wild cards, the unpredictable elements who turn a quiet evening into a chaotic yet memorable event. They’re the ones who bring fireworks to the cookout (even if it’s just a ...
There are cross-outs, things written on the other side that bleed through, strange and inventive spellings, old forms of letters (a double S was sometimes written as a “long s” and looked like an F) ...