Patrick George Callaghan

Well, when I watched the DVD 'Driving Miss Daisy' the other evening and Jessica Tandy walked into an Atlanta grocery store named PIGGLY WIGGLY I thought it was a take on by the the studio, but checking the internet I find the company has over 600 stores in the US and sells around everything! even marketing on Amazon!

I remember watching this TV series way back in 1960 on my father’s tiny 9in black and white television and how much I enjoyed it because it was quite original and unlike most cowboy shows set not in the US but in Australia. Aside from the American lead actor Peter Graves the cast were all Australians, and of course singer Frank Ifield who voiced the title song was an Aussie! “Set in the 1860s, the series is a western filmed in Australia, and stars Peter Graves as “Christopher Cobb”. The series is loosely based on the life of Freeman Cobb , who was the genuine founder of Australia’s first stagecoach line Cobb and Co . Peter Graves, in his character of Christopher Cobb, did not carry a pistol and often used a bullwhip to settle disputes. He carried a rifle and used it on more than one occasion.” “The series stands out from other television western series of its era in that the guest casts are composed of actors available in Australia, so none of the character actors s...

The Cottingley Fairies… This interesting item was sent in to me by Burton W. McKinney in a follow-up to my recent blog on The Cottingley Fairies. I thought perhaps everyone might like to read it. To this day, the suburban area of Cottingley continues to get visitors and the official retraction, even though more than 20 years ago, is still not as a well-known as the hoax itself. This may be partly due to the fact that the story was put to film in 1997 under the title Photographing Fairies. Locals are asked where the Fairy Glen is, even though the site along the small river is off limits, due to the danger of erosion. The story begins with Elsie borrowing her father’s camera one Saturday afternoon in July 1917, in order to take Frances’s photo, to cheer her up. She had fallen in the beck and been scolded for wetting her clothes. The girls were away for about half an hour and when Elsie’s father developed the plate later in the afternoon, he was surpris...

It was back to The Olde Moat House in Limbury UK for our Christmas Carvery… a real knockout! And included the latest family addition… Young Isaac