Well it's ages since I last posted and my good friend Jackie Depelle, a highly recommended speaker on family history and associated topics, 

(check out her site at https://depellejg.wixsite.com/mysite)

reminded me that it was about time I up-dated my blog.

The most significant news is I now have a new talk, Ten World Famous Monuments, which takes the form of a round-the-world tour, starting in London with Nelson's Column before travelling to Paris for the Eiffel  Tower, Italy and the Leaning Tower of Piza, onto Egypt and the Great Pyramid, India and the Taj Mahal before visiting New York and the Statue of Liberty.

Back in the UK we go to the Angel of the North before returning to London for Tower Bridge and Big Ben, ending our journey at Stonehenge.

                                           The Statue of Liberty, New York USA

As well as continuing my talks program in September, as part of Pontefract Civic Society's Heritage Weekend, I conducted a series of guided walks around Pontefract and later that same month I took part in a local history event at Worsborough Dale in conjunction with the Worsborough Local History Society.

I continue to run a family history group for Sherburn u3a and to be a trustee of the Pontefract and Ackworth Almshouse Charity.

I'm always thinking of new topics for my talks and would like to do one on Witches, Wizards and Warlocks, if only I can find the time.

In the meantime, my sincere thanks to all those groups who have listened to my talks in the last year and my very best wishes to them, and all my readers, for Christmas and the New Year, and I will try to post more often in the future,