Colin Marr's Page

"Well done Hugh, and the HHS."

"Good on you Colin, much respect.  Especially around Remembrance Day I think of my grandfather, KIA Ypres 13th May, 1915 and one of his sons KIA France 23rd April, 1918.  Like thousands of others no known grave.  Such a waste........."

"Now, eleven years later, I am pleased to be reminded of the post that I wrote as a tribute to my father, Douglas. I will have him in mind at the Remembrance Ceremony this Sunday, when I will be at the Wood Green War Memorial, opposite Haringey Civic…"

" On the subject of catching fish. I wonder if anyone remembers that around Guy Fawkes night in  the early 50s you could buy a small but very powerful banger called a blue flash?  We would explode them in the in the river and pick out…"

"I actually saw an American signal crayfish the other day! Not in the New River but in the Camley Street Natural Park on the Regent's Canal. I did see a very large fish in the New River near the West Reservoir once. It was a very brief sighting…"