Dits & Bits Apr 10, 2025 ORACLE TALES – And a trip to nowhere…..

From time to time I just write a few reminiscences  – basically for my own...

Dits & Bits Apr 4, 2025 H31 – a Letter Home

I thought you might be interested in this letter that came my way recently thanks...

Dits & Bits Apr 4, 2025 A Musical Sunset in WARSPITE

It came to pass that in April 1940,  I was born next to the Royal...

Dits & Bits Apr 4, 2025 Familygrams

It occurred to me that it might be interesting/amusing to start a thread on memorable...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Guarding a U-boat

Below is a transcription of my father’s May 1945 letter home telling the family about...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Courageous – virtually

We are grateful to Ian Whitehouse for sending this link to an excellent VR tour...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Ditty from Down-under

Me father was a submariner and often told me when I was just a ladA...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Submarining is a Dangerous Game

Since World War Two ended in forty five,And the world’s submarine fleets, smaller became,Many submariners...

Dits & Bits Mar 14, 2025 Wedding Day

I recently came across a cutting from a Lutterworth newspaper of 1929 regarding Tubby Linton’s...

Dits & Bits Mar 1, 2025 Families Day

This poem reached us by a very circuitous route; written by Tony Young (in 1974...

Dits & Bits Feb 28, 2025 Famous Liners

United States Surface running at night on Auriga (SM7 in Canada) off the US East...

Dits & Bits Feb 28, 2025 Loco Charge

Thought I’d spin you a story about an incident with HMAS Otway languishing in Hawaii in 1975....