At 5227 San Augustin Street, Makati City, after dark, there were no yellow ribbons for me nor a line of concerned people praying and clutching the rosary. A maid answers the door and looks surprised rather than [more…]
In 1945, a Collie-German Shepherd-Siberian Husky mix called Chips returned home to Pleasantville, New York. He’d seen North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, but he was not on a tour or a vacation, he was [more…]
Special Prize! First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP clock! (Batteries included, some self-assembly required – the hands) Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email [more…]
There have been people through the course of musical history who have made a career for themselves playing a simple four-stringed instrument called the Ukulele. Some of these musicians have become superstars and are known [more…]
The Loss of Northern Malaya By now the Japanese Army was deployed in Siam and Northern Malaya and the British decided to conduct an exercise akin to rearranging deckchairs of the Titanic. They formed the [more…]
With Hong Kong being in the news it has brought back a memorable incident at the beginning of my working life as a radio news reporter in the former British colony. It’s April 1983. I’d [more…]
Some things are not quite what they seem: hardly an earth-shattering perception, but you have to start somewhere. I imagine that a fair number of GPers have spent a holiday in Greece. I dare say [more…]
They say that Freddie Forsyth is happy to review any new written work. The caveat being that, if after half an hour he is bored or confused, the soft bits (that’s your or my great [more…]
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