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Month: December 2019

Arts

St. Puffin’s End of Term Report

20th December 2019 Sweaty Dave 3157 Comments

Report to the Governors of Saint Puffin’s School for Disorderly Children. The Autumn Term is always a busy time, here at St. Puffin’s. The election of Head Boy having taken much of our attention in [more…]

16th Century

The Grand Siege of Malta 1565 – Part 3

20th December 2019 Blown Periphery 1787 Comments

The Attack on Fort St Elmo The Grand Master assumed that the Turks would continue to attack the forts of St Angelo and St Michael, but two Christian renegades who had become Muslims to save [more…]

Cooking

21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)

19th December 2019 Grimy Miner 2332 Comments

In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]

20th Century

The Morgenthau Plan

19th December 2019 well_chuffed 1953 Comments

The idea for this came from some bar steward who read a comment I had made, imagine that , people reading the comments, perfidy I tell you. Anyway it seems the Morgenthau Plan may not [more…]

Health

It started with a piss

19th December 2019 Tom Pudding 1632 Comments

I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]

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Arts

The Sweet Shop

18th December 2019 Going Postal 3711 Comments

As a young child in the 1950 I used to love to visit the sweet shop to spend some of my pocket money. One of my favourite places was called the Kabin, a very small [more…]

Rookwood, Going Postal
Christianity

Dignity

18th December 2019 Rookwood 1788 Comments

I am probably not going to be popular with some of the more acerbic and biased opinion makers that populate the corners of the GP community, but there are certain nettles that the “right of [more…]

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European Union

Scottish Independence

18th December 2019 Godfrey Bloom 2383 Comments

There has been some disingenuous double speak on the subject of Scottish Independence post election at which they triumphed with a platform for independence from the United Kingdom as strong as the conservative party’s overwhelming endorsement of independence from the European [more…]

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Forty-Two

17th December 2019 Going Postal 3396 Comments

I only knew I was cold. And aching. And had a king size headache. I’d like a good rest in Lady Bixby’s emperor sized bed. Preferably resting my head on her chest. Even if she [more…]

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