I worked in Mental Health for forty years as well as some time in the mining industry. Although retired, I still sit on Tribunals and try to do what is right under the law for those detained under the Mental Health Act. I have watched several of Rishi Sunak’s performances at interviews and he peresents… Read more »

My banknote collection will be sold at London Coins in June and September. Hopefully, the notes will find an interested collection of buyers. My goodness, there are some superb notes to be sold. Whilst clearing out the office I found a folder with notes in an old briefcase. I had ‘filed’ the notes there years… Read more »

In our house two football teams are followed. Our local team is Leicester City. We have two season tickets and over the years we have seen glory days as well as the sadness of relegation. Managers and players come and go but the support of the team is in the blood. The other team is… Read more »

I have loved collecting banknotes over the years. I started selling surplus on ebay and then had the website built as I felt a bit constrained by the limitations of ebay on how to advertise the notes. I will always be grateful to ebay as it was a great service. The website has been around… Read more »

I have been discussing for some time the need to wind up the website and I shall be doing this in the months ahead. For various reasons there is a fairly urgent requirement to have matters sorted. So, if you are interested in banknotes, then have a good look at the site and see what… Read more »

In the heat of battle at Bosworth, Richard 3rd cried out, ‘My kingdom for a horse’! Alas, no horse came and he suffered death, his body taken back to Leicester and buried in haste before being ‘discovered’ a few years ago and re-buried in the current cathedral. A banknote collection seems a long was from… Read more »

In Coventry Cathedral some 15th Century stained glass was rescued from the bombing during 1940 devastating air raid that razed most of the cathedral to the ground. This image of the part face of a man I found fascinating. Who was he? Was he one of the workers who build the cathedral? Was he one… Read more »

Balzac was a prolific novelist who died in France in 1851. He wrote over eighty novels, was addicted to coffee, and my favourite quotation of his is this, ‘Behind every great fortune is a crime.’ How true today of the mega rich who have so much power in our world and society. The criminal means… Read more »

We are Season Ticket holders for Leicester City. My son travels to several away matches each year and yesterday he joined the ‘Foxes Faithful’ at Stoke where Leicester won 5 – 0. He came back charged up and thrilled with the result. Promotion may now be on the horizon. Every few months I travel to… Read more »

Many years ago I studied Metaphysics and Philosophy at University at UKC. At the time, I think I spent too much time in the Students’ Union and in protest. It was a very different time in our history. One thing I remember being taught was the maxim, ‘De Omnibus Dubitandum’, which is ‘All things must… Read more »