Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 19, 2009, 11:04 am
Born in Nuncargate, Nottinghamshire on 14th November 1904, to a working class family, Harold left school at the ripe old age of 14, to commence work in the mines. His father like every miner I have ev...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 17, 2009, 9:57 am
She was old before her time, but I always knew her for the love she expressed. Long white hair, right down her back, which each morning, she would brush and then plait. She had no teeth when I first k...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 16, 2009, 1:31 pm
Many of you will have heard of the Special Air Service, probably from your television screens in 1981, when units of the Regiment freed hostages from the Iranian Embassy in London. The event was telev...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 16, 2009, 8:38 am
It doesn't take me to tell you that millions of words have been written on this secret brotherhood of warrior monks, however for this post I want to focus on the mystery surrounding their early ye...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 15, 2009, 1:25 pm
I've just met a very nice lady at Blogcatalog, called Lor, who is a bit of an expert on the subject of aliens and has got me thinking, purely in a mischievous way you understand. Just suppose a sp...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 15, 2009, 8:21 am
Well it seems at long last an American Academic has discovered the reason behind declining male fertility in developed countries! Dr De-Kun Li of Stanford University says,' I would like to advise ...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 13, 2009, 9:56 am
One of my favourite pastimes is enjoying a pint or two in my local pub, The George. Having travelled to many parts of the World, including North America,Europe,The Gulf States,Singapore and Australia,...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 12, 2009, 10:37 am
Today Simon is enraged! This morning I went into my local W H Smith book store, part of a publicly quoted company. So angry was I, that I tried to contact the company's corporate website, but to n...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 10, 2009, 11:49 am
For those of you new to this subject, I will try to outline what I mean by a Mystery School. They in essence were schools that initiated people into the mysteries and wonders of nature, including dime...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 9, 2009, 9:20 am
When I was a lad, I lived in a small village in Hertfordshire, called Pirton and as you know, when you remember your childhood, it was always sunny. We lived in a fourteenth century thatched cottage w...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 7, 2009, 4:05 pm
Today I witnessed an old soldier lay a flower on the the grave of a friend who died on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. I struggle to write this post, my eyes are full of tears, for a man who has los...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 6, 2009, 1:02 pm
Slavery has been the scourge of humanity since the dawn of time and we are all familiar with the mass transportation of Africans across the Atlantic for the better part of two hundred and fifty years....
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 5, 2009, 3:20 pm
This one will make you laugh! In England tonight, we celebrate what is referred to as Guy Fawkes Night, by lighting bonfires and letting off fireworks. For why? Just in time the Gunpowder Plot was unc...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 5, 2009, 8:33 am
From today's press you will probably note that your CIA ex-station chief, in Italy was convicted in abstentia, together with 23 of his chums, for the kidnap and torture of Abu Omar. Whilst Mr Omar...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 3, 2009, 12:12 pm
For those of you who don't know, I live in a small market town in North Northumberland, called Alnwick. It is the ancestral seat of the Percy family who live in a bloody great castle, just around ...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 3, 2009, 7:49 am
Deep in the forests of Southern Nepal, lives a young man called Ram Bahadur Bomjon, a Buddhist adept who for the last six years, since he was 11 years old, has been meditating. He is rarely seen and i...
Comment - Like

Simon Holmes posted an article on The Rainbow Bank - Nov 2, 2009, 12:02 pm
Having recently visited the blog of my Aussie friend Al, I have become motivated to address the strange question of being English. Those of you not from this Sceptred Isle, will have differing views o...
Comment - Like