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Month: April 2018

Fiction

Tilda and the Witches 2.6

8th April 2018 Tachybaptus 1001 Comments

ACT 2 SCENE 6 FELIX’s Encampment in the Hills above Delirium.   Enter FELIX, VISCUS and Soldiers.  

Fiction

The Unseen Path – Part Thirty

7th April 2018 1642again 1867 Comments

Andy Bowson’s heart wasn’t in it this evening so he decided to tidy up his desk and make ready to go to the place he now dreaded, his home, or was it now just the [more…]

Engineering

Shunting Cobbles

5th April 2018 Sweaty Dave 1907 Comments

With spring just around the corner, allegedly, this winter project should be coming to a close, but so far there is little sign of that. The return of the eldest son from Uni meant decamping [more…]

Fiction

The Unseen Path – Part Twenty Nine

4th April 2018 1642again 2049 Comments

Chief Superintendent Dager had just finished briefing Bowson and two of his other subordinates on the outcome of the Home Secretary’s steering group when someone appeared at his cubicle door; Bowson saw his face fall [more…]

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Family, Community, Identity

4th April 2018 Æthelberht 1474 Comments

My Mum was born on 7th May 1945. My Nan (quite the socialite) used to complain that on the day of the biggest party ever she was stuck in a hospital with a new born [more…]

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Postcard from the Isle of Man

3rd April 2018 Going Postal 1324 Comments

As some of you may have noticed, I am a long-time resident of the evil tax dodging empire otherwise known as the Isle of Man. Apart from the beer guzzling, rubber burning hedonistic frenzy of [more…]

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In Praise of The Uptick

3rd April 2018 Going Postal 1403 Comments

According to the dictionaries, the word “uptick” means “a small increase or slight upward trend.” And it is an americanism. I could not find a definition in an online context, i.e. “uptick a comment”. That [more…]

20th Century

The Baby Boeing

2nd April 2018 Æthelberht 1494 Comments

I think most of us here don’t get terribly excited at the thought of the Boeing 737. It’s quite mundane, unremarkable, pedestrian even. I suspect more than a few of us here have been herded [more…]

Fiction

Tilda and the Witches 2.5

1st April 2018 Tachybaptus 1135 Comments

ACT 2 SCENE 5 A Road near Delirium.   Enter TILDA, VULPECULA, ETTY, JESSICA and HUMPHREY aboard the Haywain, with PATRICK half concealed in the Hay.  

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