When I was about 5 years old I began to be aware of a special family treat. On Friday evenings my favourite uncle, Albert, would turn up on his way home from work. He was single and living in Essex. Our house was in Bermondsey and in a street market area, rather like the one in East Enders. There was even a pub across the road called the Queen Victoria. Albert would come in bringing some delicious food. One of the shops in the market was a German pork butcher. Albert was a fan, so on those evenings he would treat us all – my grandmother, my mother and father, and me – to tasty saveloys and other German sausages before he set off home. This was my introduction to ‘gourmet’ food. Continue reading Who’s Cooking Tonight?
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Wasp
Wilberforce Wasp was weary. Wilberforce Wasp was worried. Wilberforce Wasp was wretched. It was late summer and he was cold and alone. What had he done to deserve it? He may not have led the life expected of him as a wasp, but what good had come from the evil done to his kind? They were universally loathed by the human race and, indeed, most of the animal kingdom. Flying about and stinging was hardly a way to win friends. And being labelled nasty and vicious? No! Definitely not. Not for him. Continue reading Wasp
Napoleon vs Wellington
2019 is the 250th anniversary of the birth, in Corsica, of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and, in Dublin, of the Duke of Wellington. Why, then, have we chosen to put only Napoleon on our front page, when the Duke of Wellington was tutored as a young man in Brighton and worshipped at our local St Nicholas Church, where there is a memorial to him? Continue reading Napoleon vs Wellington
Justin Simpson’s ‘Letter from Australia’
My Debut Tour of Van Dieman’s Land!
I spent a week in Australia’s island state just recently, staying with an old pommie friend of mine from Maidenhead who has made Tasmania her home these forty years or more; and although she is still audibly English, her affiliations are almost totally Tassie, even though her sister has always lived in west London. Continue reading Justin Simpson’s ‘Letter from Australia’
Introducing the WHCA Trustees – Part 5
Over the last few issues of The Whistler we have introduced the current members of the West Hill Community Association management committee (the Trustees) to give you a flavour of who they are, what they do and maybe to inspire you to become one yourself.
In this issue we meet COLETTE WILSON. Continue reading Introducing the WHCA Trustees – Part 5
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