April 2018 – Going Postal

Tilda and the Witches 3.3

29th April 2018 Tachybaptus 1627 Comments

ACT 3 SCENE 3 The Entrance of the Royal Palace at Purdonium. Enter GONBAD, in a Chariot drawn by twelve of his Wives chained together.

The Unseen Path – Part Thirty Six

28th April 2018 1642again 2221 Comments

At least Lena hadn’t done a runner, nor did she seem to be having second thoughts, she had just lapsed into fatalistic passivity, as if having made this one big decision her life could continue [more…]

Parrots

27th April 2018 Æthelberht 2041 Comments

Sixty Million Years Ago You Would’ve Been Their Lunch Ever since we met my wife had wanted a parrot. Personally I had zero interest in them but she had kept a Cockatiel for many years [more…]

The Unseen Path – Part Thirty Five

25th April 2018 1642again 3398 Comments

“Hi Lena, how are you?” She had been a couple of minutes late and, due to constant demands from her work tablet for her attention, hadn’t been able to prepare herself for what could be [more…]

The Perfidy of Western “Intelligence” Agencies: The A.Q. Khan Case

24th April 2018 Katabasis 3065 Comments

Preface This article was first published in print nearly ten years ago now, (and under a different name) towards the end of 2008. At the time, Iraq and Afghanistan had clearly become quagmires and there [more…]

This Septic Eye, Ch 7

24th April 2018 Viciousbutfair 1553 Comments

I love to eavesdrop, I’ve mentioned this in previous posts and it’s not a creepy thing, it’s just that when people are ‘off duty’, when they are talking to friends without the filter of society’s [more…]

Shunting into colour

23rd April 2018 Sweaty Dave 3177 Comments

A shorter update this time, primarily due to other activites taking precedence – not weather related over the past weeks, but the Easter holidays threw routines out of the window. The eldest came home and [more…]

Postcard From Penarth to Sully

23rd April 2018 Jonathon Davies 1820 Comments

Penarth is literally just around the corner from Cardiff. Home to a famous pier and much else besides. The town itself has a pleasant promenade to walk along, and numerous eateries along the sea front. [more…]