Barbara Critchley
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Tourism |
| Occupation | Tourist Guide |
| Location | Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a history and literature graduate and tourist guide. My first novel "Death Behind the Headlines" by Jean Critchley. |
| Interests | My purpose in creating my first blog, was to make family letters and diaries, written in the course of WWll, available as a resource for those interested in family and social history, as well as historians researching the home front of WWll. My later blogs show pictures and share my impressions of countries and cities which are entirely new experiences for me. The blog created during lockdown is from family history researches of my Norfolk ancestors. I had considerable help with this from good friends who live in the West Country. A recent blog describes the difficulties all those volunteers faced in running a young person's special interest club during a pandemic."The Havell Hundred Mysteries" is a blog about the creative fiction I write. |
| Favorite movies | Some Like it Hot, Local Hero, The Devil Wears Prada, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Apartment, Passage to India, Room with a View, Roman Holiday, North by Northwest, Broadway Danny Rose. |
| Favorite music | Classics: Various pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Sibelius and Vivaldi. Beethoven's Quartets. Popular: Bob Dylan, Early Rolling Stones with Brian Jones. The Who, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd. Porteous. |
| Favorite books | Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Wolf, Middlemarch, George Eliot, North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, As I walked out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee. Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves. |