America
It’s impeachment circus day!
Today is the day the Democrats have been waiting for, with baited breath and tingles down their legs! Today is when the multi ring circus begins!! Today they will begin the farce of trying to [more…]
Month: February 2021
Hobbies
Crossword No. 157
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary, or War Crimes. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winners of a GP [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1978
Featured Album: Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell 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 [more…]
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Five
Ever since last week’s “Whist Night” Jinnie had been thinking over what she had heard. How could it be true that the Germans had exterminated all those people and nobody in England talked about it? [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 11th February 2021 Panel: Michael Forsyth (Conservative) Ian Murray (Labour) Stephen Fitzpatrick (Businessman) Angela Haggerty (Journalist) Jeanne Freeman (SNP) Venue: Scotland Given the venue, your humble author, through gritted teeth, must begin this [more…]
Uncategorized
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Scotland. On the panel are: Oliver Dowden MP, secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative; Thangam Debbonaire [more…]
Hobbies
Korea, Suwon, Part 1
Samsung City Suwon is a city of about a million people, about an hour south of central Seoul by train. I suppose you could call it a scaled-up Korean version of Guildford, on the edge [more…]
Fiction
Wildfowling: The voice in the darkness
There is always much excitement in the yard on the first day of the season. It was Saturday the 1st of November, and a big day for the Hall Farm shoot on the edge of [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
I’m not someone who regularly reads books – I tend to buy several at a time with a view to reading them whilst on holiday (remember those?) or over the Christmas period, which is exactly [more…]