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Frances Bevan »
A Hi De Hi Birthday
Posted on 9:49am Sunday 28th August 2011
With a birthday falling in the long summer holidays I was never faced with the dilemma of whether to risk bunking off school, although in all honesty with my mum it was never an option.
Frances Bevan »
Our Belfast holiday
Posted on 12:18pm Sunday 10th July 2011
If like me you remember the daily news broadcasts from Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 80s, Belfast might not seem an obvious choice as a holiday destination.
Frances Bevan »
Armed Forces Day
Posted on 11:03am Sunday 26th June 2011
On the day the nation celebrated Armed Forces Day I found the grave of a First World War soldier at Radnor Street Cemetery.
Frances Bevan »
It's all downhill from here
Posted on 9:00am Monday 20th June 2011
Exactly two years ago I started walking. Not for the first time of course, I’d grasped the basics at roughly the correct age but to be perfectly honest that’s about as physically active as I’ve ever been. Even as a child I never ran around a lot, and once I left school, well that was it really.
Frances Bevan »
Radnor Street Cemetery is full of life!
Posted on 7:54am Thursday 16th June 2011
Yesterday evening we enjoyed another guided walk around Radnor Street cemetery, despite leadened skies which threatened rain but thankfully held off until the very end.
Frances Bevan »
Radnor Street Cemetery
Posted on 8:09am Monday 30th May 2011
The theme of this week has definitely been walking. Yesterday Leah and I joined a guided walk round Rodbourne in the company of Gordon and Ernie from the Rodbourne Community History Group. Founded in 2005 this group is committed to recording the history of the area and the thriving community that lives there.
Frances Bevan »
Swindon Photographs online
Posted on 10:01am Friday 13th May 2011
As the Radnor Street Cemetery walks approach I’m busy taking tips on how to deliver my research. Humour is a great tool but in a cemetery has to be handled sensitively. And how do I detach myself from my security blanket notes?
Frances Bevan »
Plain English
Posted on 5:11pm Thursday 12th May 2011
Sometimes putting it in plain English isn’t – well as plain as you think it’s going to be. Just as I’ve been worrying about my emails being misinterpreted and my texts not saying exactly what I mean, even though I use proper words and punctuation, now it’s just been pointed out to me that my farewell to Roger Trayhurn yesterday made it sound as if he had died!
Frances Bevan »
Life In The Past Lane »
Fancy meeting you here!
Posted on 10:47am Tuesday 10th May 2011
Last night I met Michael Wood at the British Academy Centenary Shakespeare Lecture held at The UnderGlobe at Shakespeare’s Globe on Bankside, London. Well I say ‘met’… Leah and I spent a day sightseeing in London before attending an event during the British Academy Literature Week at the UnderGlobe education centre. I had hoped we might include a tour of the Globe itself but time didn’t permit.
Life In The Past Lane »
How I met Michael Wood
Posted on 9:48am Friday 6th May 2011
Last night I met Michael Wood at a Swindon Festival of Literature event at The Arts Centre Swindon. I say ‘met’ – I actually sat in a packed audience and listened to 60 spell binding minutes of Michael talking about Kibworth, the Leicestershire village that was the subject of his TV series (and book) The Story of England.
Life In The Past Lane »
Royal Wedding Watching
Posted on 10:32am Sunday 1st May 2011
I’ve become quite an old hand at TV Royal Wedding watching, having just notched up my seventh with Will and Kate’s on Friday.
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