RANDOM JOTTINGS

A blog about music, sports, theatre and rants

Long time blogger just moved to wordpress. Love music, theatre, movies, sport (tennis and cricket) and cooking. Two great daughters, two great granddaughters.

Category: Nancy, Lady Astor

  • Current reading and recently received

    Had. a trip to Cambridge this week. Collected some shoes which the shop would not post to me or let me purchase over the phone. This was something to do with 'data protection' I gather. Don't ask.   Still, I never mind going to Cam even if only for a few hours so I collected my…

  • Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort

    "I'm the kind of woman I would run from." That was how Nancy Astor described herself and after reading this biography I have no hesitation in congratulating Lady Astor on her self knowledge.  First woman in Parliament, worked tirelessly for her constituents, brave and selfless in her aid when Plymouth was so heavily bombed in…