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Month: August 2019

Arts

Postcard from Lille, Part 27

24th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 2147 Comments

If we’re ever in the same place at the same time, I’m the quiet one standing in the corner, keeping his own council, people-watching, shy (or even just plain rude). I might be in my own little [more…]

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Crossword No. 80

24th August 2019 Going Postal 2903 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug of your choice, or GP beer mats. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winners. [more…]

Biography

Temporary Jobs

22nd August 2019 Going Postal 2920 Comments

I was saddened to learn that Richard Williams has died. He was the Richard Williams of Cartoons. Proper real cartoons with animators drawing the sequences on celluloid just like the Disney bods did back in [more…]

Geology

Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 5

21st August 2019 James Dalton 3757 Comments

The fourth meeting of the Holme Valley Parish Council Climate Emergency Steering Group [HVPCCESG] took place on 10/7/19. Unfortunately I was unable to attend this rearranged meeting and sent my apologies. Interesting facts: Carbon dioxide [more…]

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Twenty-Six

20th August 2019 Going Postal 2942 Comments

Private Investigator Joe Malone is down in the basement of his office building. Checking on a strange noise. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I saw an even bigger safety code violation. A waste [more…]

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Fiction

Winnie the Pooh Goes to Sea

20th August 2019 Going Postal 3374 Comments

Wol, while out on one of his evening wing-stretches, was somewhat startled to see Pooh apparently afflicted with St Vitus’ Dance, reeling around the meadow adjacent to the Wood, singing sea shanties. He also seemed [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Part 7

18th August 2019 Blown Periphery 2864 Comments

Ash Shaddadi, the Syrian Governorate of Al Hasakha, December 2017 When Major Halward woke up the following morning there was frost on his sleeping bag. It was still dark while he pulled on his boots, [more…]

20th Century

Bax of Delights

18th August 2019 Roger Ackroyd 3428 Comments

There have been quite a few occasions when one wished one was a fly on the wall to listen in on a conversation. The private discussion between Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King’s Musick, [more…]

Arts

Postcard from Lille, Part 26

17th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 2658 Comments

‘I hope that you’ve all studied logical positivism?’ Incarcerated in Paranaque Municipal Jail, part of Metro Manila’s southern urban sprawl, it is boily hot and dark. Thousands of pairs of pin prick brown eyes look at me [more…]

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