I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety

My dad, Norman Buckle, was stationed at the Royal Navy air base at Hastings near Freetown, Sierra Leone 1944. Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

The cathedral Church of St. George, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1944. In his diary my dad, Norman Buckle, wrote "The cathedral of St George is about 100 years old and possesses a very fine choir and organ." Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

My dad, Norman Buckle, is the man standing at the back wearing the white hat. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1944.  Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II  Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

The mountains of Sierra Leone. My dad, Norman Buckle, was stationed at H.M.S. Spurwing, Hastings near Freetown, Sierra Leone 1943 - 1944. Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

My dad, Norman Buckle, arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone in October 1943. He wrote in his diary "Large numbers of canoes filled the harbour, some mere dugouts but others quite decent boats." Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II.  Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

When you look on the Amazon book page for your ebook and find a new review it’s a fantastic feeling: someone has taken the time and the trouble to log into their account, write their review and give you a rating. Brilliant! Obviously, if it’s a five or four star review that’s even better. You can imagine how delighted we were to find not one but two new reviews for I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Thank you so much to "julian" and "crazy wolf" for posting your reviews; really greatly appreciated. I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II has eight reviews now. They’re not all 100% enthusiastic about the book but between them they do give a wide range of opinions. Thanks so much to each person who has posted a review. When I published I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Flee

My dad, Norman Buckle, was stationed at H.M.S. Spurwing, the Royal Navy air base at Hastings, near Freetown, Sierra Leone 1943 - 1944. When he arrived at Freetown he wrote in his diary: "The town looks very pretty with brightly coloured houses, the outstanding objects being a church and two wireless aerials. Behind the town is the coastal range of hills." Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during WWII. Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

My dad, Norman Buckle, arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone in October 1943 and was deployed at the Royal Naval Air Base at Hastings known as H.M.S. Spurwing. Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during WWII. Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

My dad, Norman Buckle, was sent to H.M.S. Royal Arthur (Skegness, Lincolnshire) for induction training into the Royal Navy in October 1942. Read more in I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Please visit our website to find out more about our books. http://www.spurwing-ebooks.com

After I retired I spent many a happy hour researching both my own and my husband's family histories. Eventually though, I came to a dead end after I had explored every aspect of the lives of even the most distant relatives. I had already sorted through a box of old photos that had been in the loft for years and had labelled as many of them as I could. Now I turned my attention to an old, homemade, hard backed notebook with the initials N.B stencilled on the deteriorating hessian cover. I knew that this was a collection of photographs and postcards that my dad, Norman Buckle, had stuck in the book accompanied by captions in his tiny, precise handwriting. Folded into the book were lots of pages torn from an old diary for 1943 and several sheets of notepaper covered in that same spidery handwriting. This was to become the starting point for my book I Think I Prefer the Tinned Variety: The Diary of a Petty Officer in the Fleet Air Arm during World War Two . Link to amazon UK book pa