Friday 6 June

Afternoon all, it's a brighter day, and much drier, than yesterday. Watching coverage of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 1944 - hat off to all involved, including those who didn't come back.

Camera has decided to develop another fault. I do have the use of another, but it's not nearly as good. The faulty one is going off for repairs.

Very interesting evening at a talk regarding the connection between Flanders Fields [WW1] and the Isle of Lewis. I was mentioned by name by Dominiek Dendooven from the In Flanders Fields institute in Ypres, on account of my work on HMS Timbertown. Went to the talk in blazing sunshine at 7pm, only to emerge into the gloom of haar three hours later...