Serener Skies

In a bit of a break from the usual, the theme for today’s post is not really anything nostalgic at all, but is related to my main hobby which is the playing of wargames, part of a general fascination/obsession with military history (so there is a historical theme, be it ever so tenuous). I have to apologise to regular readers of the blog (Ho ho! Allow me my conceits please) for its appearance here. I would normally have posted it in my other blog, St Cyr On Wheels, but I find

I first started this blog back in the summer of 2019 with little thought except that it was to be, broadly, a nostalgic blog about the past, whether it be a very personal aspect of the past like the three Peanuts strips that formed the theme of the first post, or the history of popular train travel that was covered in a subsequent one. Think perhaps something along the lines of Michael Bywater's hilarious, if now perhaps somewhat dated, Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost And Wher

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