Tony's Musings

This weekend I will be lighting a candle for loved ones lost, but I got to thinking about those who die alone, no family, no one to mourn. ...

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Just past a year since conflict erupted in the Middle East and it is still not abating. Breakfast in the Ruins Gaza, one year on: began by ...

Two appreciations from the JEP. On a personal note, Ken was the P.E. teacher at my schools Mandalay and VCP. I remember seeing him doing sp...

One from the archive, from 30/05/2007, but appropriate I think given the hurricanes and storms of  late. The ancients often saw storms as th...

1974 - 50 Years Ago - October Part 2 17.--From January 1 next year, air fares between Jersey and the UK and between the Channel Islands them...

The poem today bases its structure, but not its content, on a well-known hymn. Can you guess which one? The Dream I heard the night in whisp...

1974 - 50 Years Ago - October Part 1 1.—-Jersey’s “Miss Battle of Flowers” 20-year-old Sue de "Gruchy, is to visit Northern Ireland lat...

It's getting darker in the morning! Soon need the hi-vis jacket! Waiting for the bus A September morning, at the road side The bus will ...

THE ROBIN HOOD HOTEL—Rouge Bouillion, St. Helier By Philip Ahier This hostelry at the corner of Val Plaisant and Trinity Hill was a sort of ...

A celebration of Autumn, of the Autumn equinox, of the ancient Celtic festival of Mabon, and harvest time. Mabon Sweet harvest, rejoice in ...

 From the 1970s (around 1972?) in "Jersey Illustrated" magazine.

The Project The highlight of my week has to be "The Project", last seen 20 years ago, and apparently (although no sources and soli...

A trip to Rozel where I haven't been for some years - parking is always difficult but easier when children are at school. I love the bea...

1974 - 50 Years Ago - September 2024 Part 2 16.—Preliminiary discussions about the new extended St. Peter's Village development scheme w...

I had a lovely walk on Friday with some friends through country lanes in St Ouen, that very rural of Parishes, and this gave rise to this po...

1974 - 50 Years Ago - September 2024 Part 1 2.—-—Mountainous seas and gale-force winds lashed Jersey’s east coast this morning leaving a tra...

I thought I'd return to a rondel as the poetic form this week. This was occasioned by seeing several greenhouses close by just left in a...

La Haule Manor By Philip Ahier As its name indicates, it is one of the first examples of an old Manor House being converted into a Hotel. It...

Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine Free Thinking What do you owe the state? Do you think in terms of loyalties and duties? Writing during ...