Stan Holroyd recently sent a message to the Wainwright Facebook site in which he mentioned the Scouter magazine. I replied to say that I had written an article that was published in that magazine in 1960, and here it is:… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 5th January – A man from K.T.D. called to install my new colour printer. Friday, 6th January – Chris Butterfield called with some books for me to sign. I gave him a large Snowdon panorama in case anyone wants… Continue Reading →

Here are some quotations from letters and faxes that I sent to Kate Cave of Frances Lincoln in 2005 in connection with the revision of The Eastern Fells. I have made changes to clarify which parts of the page are… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 1st October – Went by taxi to Glenridding to meet ten other members of the Wainwright Society and two dogs for a walk to Keldas and Grisedale. It seems to me that the people and the dogs enjoyed the… Continue Reading →

In my 9th blog I mentioned some interesting information about distant places that I have read about from time to time. Here are some more: The Mediterranean, Black, Caspian and Aral Seas are all remnants of the Tethys Ocean, which… Continue Reading →

Ancient history Here are some interesting facts in this field that I have read about over the years: In a book about Mastermind I read that in 1130 B.C. Brutus, the grandson of Aeneas of Troy, became the first king… Continue Reading →

Following on from Blog 38, here is a slightly shortened version of my diary for the third quarter of 2022: Friday, 1st July – From November last year until April this year the number of visits to my website were… Continue Reading →

The Standard of Living In 2006 I read that the average standard of living in Britain was three times as high as it was fifty years before, although I have never seen this mentioned anywhere else. I believe that the… Continue Reading →