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The Chronicles of a Steel City Man

  • A Request for Action to Support Standing Rock Water Protectors

    This situation is getting quite serious and I urge all who read this to contact the President of the USA and show support for the Indigenous people and the Standing Rock call for action. It reminds me VERY MUCH of the news reels I saw in the sixties when the American government treat the black…

  • ‘GUNFIRE’ …at Balaklava.

    OCTOBER 25th … BALAKLAVA DAY. (a link to the ‘GUNFIRE’ Vlog) Amongst the cavalry regiments of the British Army…Hussars, Lancers, Dragoons, Light and Heavy, there is a proud tradition of celebrating /remembering the famous ‘CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE’ ..As immortalised by Alfred Lord Tennyson in his epic poem. MY first experience of ‘GUNFIRE’, a la ‘Balaklava Day, was on…

  • NEW VLOGGING EQUIPMENT …

    If you are a ‘watcher’ of the steelcityman vlogs on You Tube, you will no doubt have heard me saying, more than once, that I need new , better equipment … well, that day has arrived and I have replaced my trusty Nikon D3100 for a smaller, better, faster and altogether more super model to…

  • Early Morning start at the Hospital …

    Here we are at the Northern General Hospital in the Steel City (Sheffield) … booked the wife in at 0700 hrs for a Cardio Inversion .. In short, the medics are going to induce a rapid heartbeat and then shock it back to normal with the Defibrillator/Pacemaker she has fitted. If it doesn’t work correctly…

  • Lancashire ‘Nana’ threatened with prison during Buckingham Palace protest

    An anti-fracking campaigner has been served with court papers during a tea party protest opposite Buckingham Palace. Source: Lancashire ‘Nana’ threatened with prison during Buckingham Palace protest … from an article by Ruth Hayhurst in the ‘Drill and Drop’ publication I’ve just caught up with this update  of the Lancashire ‘Granny’s Tea Party Protest’ out side…

  • Grannies write to the Queen to stop fracking for the “health of their grandchildren”

    Originally posted on Pride's Purge: A group of grandmothers in Lancashire have written an open letter to the Queen telling her their concerns about fracking. And from 2pm tomorrow (Tuesday) the nanas will be delivering the letter and having what they call Nana Tea outside Buckingham Palace. They assure they will be bringing their “best crockery”…

  • Am I too old to VLOG ??

    AGE AND VLOGGING…. ( a link to the ‘steelcityman’ Vlog #4 on You Tube ) Well.. What a torrid time of late … My dear wife, Christine,  has been Very ill (Ventricular Tachycardia) culminating in a Cardiac arrest, but between the pacemaker/defibrillator she had fitted 4 years ago and the magnificent National Health Service we…

  • Vlog meets Blog…

    A Vlog and a Blog, done over several days from August 1st-4th 2016

  • VLOGGING the BLOG….

    Much of the Vlog#2 has content that was discussed in the previous post, but this time on a VLOG…Casey Neistat gets another mention and I’m using this mainly to see how the editing, using iMovies, is performing….

  • Into the realms of VLOGGING…

    I’ve tried Blogging, and although I still enjoy doing it , (Who doesn’t  ? ..Vlogging that is !), I find my motivation slowly slipping away, with increasing gaps between my blog posts. I still feel as though I have lots to say on many topics, and who wouldn’t with over 67 years of life experience…

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