A new month is a good time for a new beginning; a new location at least, but if you are familiar with my ramblings then it is simply more of the same, although the plan is for more regular updates. Once I figure out what I am doing I will link in the old blogs for posterity.
Why a ‘new beginning’ if it is going to be more of the same? There are a couple of technical reasons for a new site but mainly because I am entering a new ‘phase’ of life as a Pensionista. My twenties and thirties were spent setting up Bomber Command and bringing up The Bombers before returning to education in my forties and completing a PhD in Russian history in my fifties. Turning sixty seems like a great time to tackle new adventures and with it begin a new blog. I have no fixed plans, no goals or destination for the next twenty years but I hope to tackle any new opportunities that present themselves and possibly create a few of my own.
For readers unfamiliar with my ponderings what can you expect here? There will be the usual travel stories, although travel in the traditional sense is in short supply in the Pandemic Era. There will be book, film, and restaurant reviews, gratuitous dog stories and pictures, thoughts on current affairs and reports on pirate shenanigans with my alter ego, Cap’n Darcy, and the Piratesmas grogventures. I have recently developed a new interest in my family history and I will continue to dabble in My Dead Russian Guys history too. And, of course, there will be family tales from Bomber Command and my new adventures as a Baba to The Little Explosions. In fact, anything and everything that catches my self indulgent fancy. I hope you stay for the ride.
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