Serener Skies

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

At Primary School back at the end of the 1960’s the one thing in the classroom that fascinated and attracted me the most was its...

I find that of all the things in this world there is none that has such an intense and instant effect upon my mood as music, and I make...

It’s that time of year again. The Summer Bank Holiday has passed, September is with us and the kids will shortly be back at school. As if...