Personal news
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 spring of 1980. Despite my suffering from a hip problem (shortly to be replaced), all …
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 1942, but in various other theatres of war since World War Two, including Suez, Aden …
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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 down shortly after I jumped. Just before before we jumped the plane was hit. A …
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 – making no less than twelve separate visits in that year alone – that I’d somehow …
[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 in an excellent double cottage at Hulmes Vale Farm on Tideswell Moor in the High …
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 founder members of the Club in 1967, with John as the first Secretary.) This was …
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 area around Burry Port and Kidwelly has been transformed out of all recognition. Like many …
[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 of the most unusual trips down memory lane that I’ve ever taken. The only such …
Memories that keep Shining on … ‘for ever and ever’ … Read More »
