70 The Blog Father more from Fitz this month ...........


Ok, which one of you is doing it? I know it’s one of you shopkeepers in the High Street. Every time I purchase something, one of you is slipping me an old one


called Plymouth! My journey will be just over 24 hours, Dawlish seawall willing, and by the time I have emailed this, I will be sat in Plymouth Massachusetts,


pound coin. I have also managed to collect a two pence piece from Guernsey, a fifty pence from Gibraltar and a dime.....which is handy as I am on my way to Boston as I write. I am looking at the preparations for what could be the biggest party in my lifetime, the Mayflower 400 celebrations.


In 2020 the United States and the UK will be marking the departure of 102 people on a non seaworthy collection of planks to the New World. The so called


duly typed in Iris Vera Betty Lee Jones, my dear departed mother. The auto correction changed Iris to Isis! ‘Don’t press the send button’, I screamed.


Fitz


Pilgrims took 63 days to get to Plymouth Rock which has always astounded me. What are the odds of landing in a place


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visiting :www.tfbcommunications.co.uk You can also listen in to his show on Radio Devon weekdays 10pm-1pm Sun 3pm-5pm


overlooking Plympton Massachusetts which is near Dartmouth Massachusetts and Taunton Massachusetts. It has been an interesting journey to get to this point which almost ground to a halt at the US embassy. On filling in the visa application, the form asked me for my mother’s maiden name. It also asked if I was a terrorist, trafficking human organs and/or suffering from diseases which only usually appear in Eastenders! A friend was filling in the online application and


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