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  • “YES , NOLAN, OLD ENGLAND DOES EXIST.”

    “YES, VIRGINIA, OLD  ENGLAND  DOES EXIST”

    Title change to
    “YES,  NOLAN, OLD ENGLAND DOES EXIST.”
    alan skeoch
    Dec. 2017
    Jan. 2018
  • MARJORIE … TAKES CHARGE OF TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL NOV. 16,2017

    MARJORIE SKEOCH…”MY  GOOD HEALTH IS ALL DUE  TO MY  HUSBAND ALAN”
    Nov. 16, 2017

    “Are you physically active Marjorie?”, asked Mary, her  nurse at Toronto Western Hospital.
    “Well, let me  put it this  way.  See that man over there, my  husband.    He does not know how to start the  washing machine or the dryer.   “
  • Sick and tired of Skeoch…??

    From: Alan Skeoch <alan.skeoch@rogers.com>
    Subject: Sick and tired of Skeoch…??
    Date: November 13, 2017 at 6:58:15 AM GMT-5

    World  is strange

    Today I will be on TV CBC re the island ferries…you might have opinions

    Why me?  They needed  a willing person with stupid ideas and an eccentric father (if they use that memory)

    Why tell you?   Egomaniac

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  • THE LAST FLIGHT OF HX 313

    On May 27, 1944, a Halifax Bomber, HX 313, was ripped and torn by a German night Fighter after dropping its bomb load on Bourg Leopold, Belgium.
    A cousin who I had  never met was the upper Middle Gunner and was killed as the  night fighter shells ripped  across the underbelly of the plane.  Over the last few decades I have been able to reconstruct much of what happened before, during and after that fateful evening.  My use of dialogue may offend sensitive ears.  Sorry about that.  This will be a long story…to be sent in segments.

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  • FIRST DANCE…AND SHE WAS THERE…64 YEARS LATER SHE IS STILL THERE

    alan skeoch

    So the 125th is over.  Return of the Native has happened.   Lots to think about…old friends, older teachers, still older hallowed halls of the old school.   Mistakes made.

    Achievements that surpassed me.  Probably a few grads who considered me a fool.  And a few good friends who liked me in spite flaws.  That is how you know colleagues are more than just fellow travellers.

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