Ramblings

The actual date was 28th December 1962, a night I will never forget. Snow had been falling most of the day but by ...

1st March the meteorological first day of spring, also St David’s day. The astronomical first day of Spring ...

In early October 2017 Lizzy and I decided to visit the Kassam stadium cinema in Oxford to see “Goodbye ...

Good news for all you winter weather watchers, Bewick swans having flown 2000 miles from the arctic feeding grounds ...

Tragic Hastings air crash 6th July 1965 The afternoon was beautiful and sunny and we were loading aggregate into ...

February 1963 saw myself and brother Terry just about coping with the terrible weather during the 62/63 winter, ...

Returning from our Faringdon site I listened to Mozart Eine KleineNachtmusic[ a little serenade ] the music ...

Thankfully, after nearly 60 years in the trade, I still find our business exciting. When visiting our Faringdon ...

John Jackson in Ecuadour 1987 during the terrible earthquake witnessed a simple scene of compassion. He wrote: The ...

Cold air became firmly established on the 29th December 1962,blizzards developed in the south west of England where ...