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Month: November 2020

Engineering

Cnuteneering, Part Four

30th November 2020 El Cnutador 0

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]

Biography

Jeremy and Seumas – Resurrection

30th November 2020 DH 0

Slouching wearily in an uncomfortable wooden chair, Seumas Milne stared vacantly at the faded orange Formica clock on the kitchen wall. It read three thirty two. It had read three thirty two since the year [more…]

Fiction

War Crimes Chapter 36 – Monty’s Story or the Unbearable Lightness of Being… A Cat

29th November 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Chapter 36 – Monty’s Story or the Unbearable Lightness of Being… A Cat I think you will all agree, that is rather a good portrait of me. It captures the essentials of… Well, being me. [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Sixty Nine

29th November 2020 Going Postal 0

Monday It’s Monday again and I was up bright and early, but it was a bit quiet in the flat. I quickly realised that Bozzie was not to be seen and was not bouncing around [more…]

Arts

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

29th November 2020 OldTrout 0

Today is the first Sunday of Advent.  It is time to light the first candle. #Hope. O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the Son of [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Thirty One

28th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Sharp elbows approached us across a crowded reception room at the British High Commissioner’s annual bash. Mrs Belinda Wong, of the Wong Address Forwarding Company, myself and my wife, Nicole, wait in anticipation. I’m rather [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 146

28th November 2020 Going Postal 0

Going Postal Crossword 146 “El Krakenador Special Non-Cryptic Quick Clues” Across 1 Speed (11) 8 Boris’s school (4,7) 11 Measurement (4) 12 Shrubbery (4) 13 Government means to suppress news (1-6) 15 Fermented grass (7) [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1967

27th November 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured Album: The Monkees This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the link for [more…]

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A Christmas Movie that reflects 2020

27th November 2020 Going Postal 0

As a very strange Christmas swings around, we’ll soon start to see a plethora of Yuletide films appear on television. From the great and the good (films like The Bishop’s Wife and It’s a Wonderful [more…]

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