January, 2017 | Going Postal

Holidays with kids

30th January 2017 Going Postal 0

The lovely description of his normal family life by our Flying Hippo (Humdrum and proud!) inspired me to put fingers to keyboard (no, The Princess does not put her paws to keyboard, that’s beneath her!) [more…]

Humdrum and proud!

28th January 2017 Going Postal 0

I can’t really moan about my lot – I have a good middle management job, a teacher wife of 15 years and three kids under 8. I think we have done a reasonable job with [more…]

Baking bread with Going Postal

8th January 2017 Sweaty Dave 0

With Christmas now history, I put to you, what has been your most useful/favourite Christmas present in recent years? For me, it was not last year’s set of kitchen knives and four cans of special [more…]

Postcard from Lille, Part 35

19th October 2019 0

They, dear reader, say that a humble author should read, read, read as well as write, write, write. In my defence, long-suffering aficionados of our never-ending quest for Lille will have noticed, to name but [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Fourteen

10th February 2018 0

‘Henry’ switched off the news feed on his laptop. That press release put out by the PM’s office! Whatever had possessed them? He must try to find out. It was crudely transparent, wildly unnecessary, surely? [more...]
Crossword No. 121

6th June 2020 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 120 Glazinova. Answers with next week’s crossword. [more...]
Sailing around the world

9th February 2021 0

We accidentally sailed around the world, but by good luck we survived the Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. There is currently obsessive talk of death, but on that morning a ¼ of a million people [more...]
The New Politics: Globalism Vs. Nationalism

20th February 2018 0

The Old Politics There is a shift in politics. This has been apparent for some time now. Politics used to be run along the lines of Left against Right. This evolved from the French Revolution [more...]