On Monday 1 April I had the interesting and enjoyable experience of being interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Film Programme (to be broadcast on Thurs 11) about my work as music editor on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in the
The annual remembrance service for the 1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers was held at Donington, Lincs, on Sunday 23 September. The service was well attended by veterans who saw active service, not only at the Battle of Arnhem in September
In the course of researching the biography I’m writing about air ace George Stainforth, I’ve unearthed a recording of my father, Peter Stainforth, talking about his war years to the author Ian Mackersey in April 2000. My plane was shot
I’ve just returned from revisiting the island of Skye after an absence of over a quarter of a century (last visit, June 1994). I’d had such an intensive time taking photos for my book on ‘The Cuillin’ in 1993 –
[with apologies for the appalling title pun … :)] Last week, from 28 Sept – 1 Oct, I had an unusually rich four days in the hills with a reunion of Freda’s old University of East Anglia Mountaineering Club friends
On June 30, Chris Henshall, the master in charge of climbing at Tonbridge School, invited John and I down to their end of the year climbing meet at Harrison’s Rocks. (Along with Hugh Tassell and Grenville Byford, we had been
A week ago I went with Freda to stay with relatives in Kidwelly. We were blessed with good weather, though it was blowing a hoolie most of the time we were there. But it was something of a revelation because the whole
[See also: FULL GALLERY OF PHOTOS] It’s a delight to be able to write my very first blog about such an extraordinary, happy day on the May 25th Bank Holiday, a Bank Holiday with a difference. It was certainly one
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