About@jgcoleman

• 10 years ago
  
  J G Coleman likes their own blog post, Making The Wine
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "New Entry" on the site Afar and Asunder

  Journey by farm tractor and caravan from London to Sydney in 1953-54

   

   

  This Memoir is the story of the journey I, my husband Tom and another couple, Joan and Rod Johnson, took in 1953 to 1954 overland […]
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "A Weekend In Ootycamund" on the site Afar and Asunder

   

  Overnight In Ootacamund

   

  “Stop, please…give me your story..I’m with the Ooty paper…a reporter…I need this story…please talk to me…please…..PLEASE”   The young reporter ran alongside the tractor, […]
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "An Evening with Dragi" on the site Afar and Asunder

  An Evening With Dragi

   

  Dragi  D.Todorowicz was an enigma.  We met him in Zagreb in Croatia, although exactly why and how we met him is lost to memory.  What he did for a living, I have no idea.  He was tall […]
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "LONDON TO SYDNEY BY TRACTOR -- '53-'54 -" on the site Afar and Asunder

  “Gunna buy yer wife a parrit?” the Aussie pet-shop owner asked Tom. “Got some bonzer birds ‘ere…whaddyer think a them?  Best birds in Sydney, Mate”.

   

  We were looking for a room to rent in Paddington, an […]
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman likes Ceilidh's blog post, Thinking about what "memory" means...
• 11 years ago
  
  dawnb and J G Coleman are now friends
• 11 years ago
  
  Ceilidh and J G Coleman are now friends
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "The Home Guard" on the site Afar and Asunder

  THE HOME GUARD

  “Don’t forget the key, Don” my mother called from the cozy , eiderdown depths of the bed in which my father, off to a night-time meeting of the British Home Guard, would have preferred to be. The […]
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "Drinks With The Boys" on the site Afar and Asunder

   

  After two months, or thereabouts. when I had made the shack into a home of reasonable comfort and attractiveness, I began to paint again.  I had bought canvas and stretchers, and acquired a few more tubes of […]
• 11 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "Acapulco Gold" on the site Afar and Asunder

  In the early 1970’s  an invitation to a summer Sunday party was to flirt with a trip into another dimension.   As I was to learn.

  “Sunshine Cottage” is no more.  Wild asters and poplar saplings now grow on the […]
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "of Mice and Housewives" on the site Afar and Asunder

  What’s with the rodents this summer?  The population of mice , squirrels and chipmunks this  season has positively exploded.  We live in the country and, naturally, expect them to be streaking about in and around […]
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "The Bomb in the Lawn" on the site Afar and Asunder

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• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "A Very Exclusive Club" on the site Afar and Asunder

   

   

  Ruminating on the question of whether, in my entire life, I have ever actually joined a club I’ld be hard pressed to come up with an answer in the affirmative.

   

  I do claim, however, to belong to a […]
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "HERBS" on the site Afar and Asunder

  HERBS

   

  “Wake , Wake-Robin, All-Good, Sweet- Buckeye. Male-Fern for Tall-Veronica, White-Angel, Lad’s Love is in the garden.  Fasten your Bitter-Buttons, Chicken-toe. run Red-Cock’s-Comb through Flea-Bane, […]
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman joined the group Tea and Conversation
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman changed their profile picture
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman posted a new activity comment

  In reply to: Kay L wrote a post “Going to Morocco 1952” on the site Adventurer Left Fargo [ND]. Arrived Commodore Hotel N.Y.C. View

  From this intriguing entree….we would love to hear more about your adventures in Morocco…..jg coleman
• 12 years ago
  
  Jerome and J G Coleman are now friends
• 12 years ago
  
  J G Coleman wrote a post "Auntie Elsie’s Flea" on the site THIS IS NOT afar and asunder

  Technically she was no relation,  “Auntie Elsie”, but my Godmother.   She lived in a 17th Century farm-house in Ladymead,  in the county of Somerset on the Bristol channel in the west of England.

  Uneven great […]

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