An extended family
While researching my family tree, I have been astounded by the generosity of complete strangers from across the globe, and just how much the pass-time… Read More »An extended family
This section of the site is set aside for the things that occupy me when I’m not working.
I enjoy physical and mental challenges, so much of what you will find here is about triathlon, including my journey from an open water panic attack in my first event, through to completing The Brutal triathlon in Snowdonia.
As well as competing in triathlon and being the secretary for my local club, I raise funds for charitable causes, rattling the tin every 2-3 years.
If that’s not enough, when time allows, I travel as much as I can, and in the gloomier winter months can be found tracing my family tree.
While researching my family tree, I have been astounded by the generosity of complete strangers from across the globe, and just how much the pass-time… Read More »An extended family
Until the the war of 1982, most people had little or no idea, or interest, where the Falklands were. Whether re-capturing the Islands was political… Read More »Falkland Islands
Say “Lord Lucan” or “Reggie Perrin” to me, and images of Reverend Joseph Christopher Lambert spring to my mind. A man from a family steeped… Read More »Joseph Christopher Lambert
Located a 5-hour drive NNE of Johannesburg, and 10km from the nearest major road, Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is an oasis for orphaned and rescued… Read More »Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Thomas Longley Having reached something of a roadblock in my research into my direct ancestors in the Longley line in Leeds, I started out researching… Read More »Thomas Longley
There is much written in business environments, such as on LinkedIn, about mental health in the workplace. Many of these articles are written obliquely. This… Read More »Mental Health
Born into a wealthy and successful family, and orphaned at the age of 12, Gretchen Fiske Longley survived the icy waters of the North Atlantic… Read More »Gretchen Fiske Longley
By the end of 2017, I’d fulfilled all of my 2017 triathlon objectives, and with relatively few hiccups. I’d gone from Sprint triathlon to one… Read More »Learning hard lessons
With stories of murder, abduction, suicide, court-battles, and police cover-ups, the origins of film could have been written by an over-enthusiastic Holywood script-writer. James William… Read More »James William Longley
For many people, the first reason they stumble across Joseph Longley bedsteads is when they happen to look up at the roof of Pret a… Read More »Joseph Longley Bedsteads