Author Chris Jesty

Coincidences In my book Happy Memories I mentioned a number of remarkable coincidences that I had experienced throughout my life. On 22nd November, 2020 I discovered another that had been hidden away for more than thirty years. I noticed that… Continue Reading →

Here are some more interesting facts that have come to my notice over the years and that I thought were worth making a note of. On 26th April 2006 I read that the average standard of living in Britain was… Continue Reading →

Here is the list of songs that was featured in the last paragraph of Chapter 10 of Happy Memories. I hope that it will remind older readers of songs they knew long ago and have forgotten. My Favourite Songs (Extra… Continue Reading →

The Saint: My reference to the Saint was badly timed because the series ended on 28th August, two days after the blog appeared, but it starts again at 12.10 p.m. on Monday 21st September on ITV 4. Here are some… Continue Reading →

Classification Since I was at school I have been fascinated by the classification of animals and plants, but it was not until 2003 that I produced a comprehensive table showing all the groups that are familiar to me. It can’t… Continue Reading →

Since December 2018 I have been a member of the Alfred Wainwright Facebook Group, which is run by Chris Butterfield. He is considerably younger than me, and he has kindly agreed to take over my website when I am no… Continue Reading →

On 11th June, 2020 34 pages of letters that I received and sent between 1972 and 1979 in connection with the panoramas were added to the section ‘scrapbooks’ in my website. Here are the details: Pages 1 to 6 –… Continue Reading →

More history: In my last blog I mentioned some interesting facts that I had read on the subject of history over the years and added that I could have mentioned more. Here are some of them. The person who is… Continue Reading →

History: It seems to me that books on history place too much emphasis on the wrong sort of people. One of these is Horatio Nelson, whose only claim to fame is to have given his name to a column in… Continue Reading →