Wild about Milton Keynes

My lunchtime reading was an interview with Angie Butler about her Quest for Frank Wild.

This hooked me in on at least three levels.

(i) I'm fascinated by the tales of early polar expeditions. Frank Wild was Shackleton's sidekick on several expeditions, and took part in five of the these trips overall.
(ii) I'll be visiting South Georgia in December this year - just after Angie Butler has taken Wild's ashes back there to lay them alongside Shackleton's grave.
(iii) Wild grew up in a little village called Eversholt just a few miles from the Open University in Milton Keynes, and is commemorated by a plaque in St John the Baptist Church in Eversholt.

I wasn't able to get into the church to see the plaque, but it was a very peaceful place to spend some time on a summer evening.

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