Swords
contributed by Jane

The sword has been referred to by many as the “Queen of the Weapons” and certainly not without merit. Throughout the ages, the sword possessed beauty in the many forms it took and in the art with which it was adorned. It took skill and a sophisticated knowledge to make a sword and also, it took a lot of skill, knowledge, practice and co-ordination to wield that sword efficiently.

We have quite a collection of swords at home, I am not entirely sure why or how we have acquired most of these to be honest...

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BONUS article - Evelyn Everett-Green
Kindly submitted by Mr. Geoffrey Gower-Kerslake

Although Evelyn Everett-Green wrote about 350 novels, she is now forgotten and there is very little known about her life.  She did, however, live at that period of great social change from the late Victorian / Edwardian society before the Great War through to the inter-war years of social reconstruction and the attempt to establish values by which a shattered and disillusioned society could be re-built.  Like her almost exact contemporary, Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)...

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Featured Book - Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey
Contributed by Martyn

Golf is the only sport where you do not have to be a professional player to describe yourself as a 'golfer', all you seem to need is the desire to be able to strike the little ball without malice, and there you are, when asked, you can safely reply 'I am a golfer'.

There have been, and continue to be, many books written on the sport, those that help you to achieve a better standard of play, others that compile the humour associated with the game and some that supply an endless list of statistics...

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