Category Archives: Kingston

Memories

Posted on March 11, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

Today I returned to my home town to visit a sick cousin. Very Sick. I don’t want to write anything more permanent. Old habits die hard, only hardly forgotten. I parked the car in the space where I would have … Continue reading →

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Chapter 2: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

On the morning of the 1st we arrived at the dock feeling very damp and dispirited, during the next few years we were fated to see a great deal more of this kind of weather than we could appreciate. … Continue reading →

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Chapter 1: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

(I found one of my grandfather’s journals while I was looking in a bin of family artifacts. It was written in a service book. It seems fitting somehow as the anniversary of the First World War approaches. This, combined now … Continue reading →