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I’M STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY MY POSTS ARE NOT BEING TRANSMITTED AS EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS. I PAID AN £ 85.00 FEE TODAY (13 OCT 2020). MAYBE THAT WILL DO IT. J.P. MCEVOY

Milos Forman’s Amadeus has eclipsed all the other movies I’ve seen in seven decades of sitting in the dark eating popcorn. I have been going to the movies for almost 75 years, going all the back to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger. (You know, I even remember their horses . . .… Continue reading My Favourite Film of All Time

I grew up in Camden, New Jersey the hometown of Jersey Joe Walcott who was the heavyweight champion of the world in the early 1950s I guess it’s fair to say that boxing was part of my DNA. Even the patriarch of the McEvoy clan, Bernard J. McEvoy, who emigrated from County Louth, Ireland in… Continue reading Me & Jersey Joe

born 15 April, 1967 I recently published a blog post about my experiences with the Russians in London over 50 years ago. Unfortunately, I left off a photo of our family returning from Britain on the SS United States in 1967. Well, here it is. You can see our youngest son, Mark on his mother’s… Continue reading My Son Mark

We leave Moscow and take a long train ride across Russia to the Black Sea In Moscow, we were like country bumpkins, enjoying the tourist sites, waiting in line to see the embalmed body of V.I. Lenin and posing in front of famous landmarks. We photographed everything but were most impressed with the excessive width… Continue reading spy in from the cold(cont’d)

To the regular readers of this blog, I apologise for the excessive length of this posting. I have broken the text into a few parts. London newspapers are repeatedly reporting the skullduggery of the Russians around the world and this has made it interesting to tell this story  of our early days in London dating… Continue reading The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 
(i.e. the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory)

Several years ago, when I was the owner/director of a travel company based in London, I organised several trips to Egypt for my American ex-patriot clients. The tour was called The Pyramids and Nile Cruise. I personally took the trip several times and became a great fan of this incredible part of the world. I… Continue reading The Lotus Flower Carving of Tutankhamun – A Sad Tale

In the summer of 1974 , the 61st edition of the Tour de France – one of cycling’s Grand Tours – took place. The race officials decided it was time for some real innovation, so they scheduled one stage in the UK near Plymouth, England. The stage and the race was won by the favourite,… Continue reading Tour de France

When my wife and I came to live permanently in London in 1973, we took teaching positions at the American Community School (ACS). We were in separate divisions of the same institution, she as principal in the small elementary school in Hampstead, and myself as the science head of the high school branch, which was… Continue reading Meeting the Barefoot Contessa – Ava Gardner – in Harrods 1975