Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Ninety-Eight
Monday Morning all and welcome to another week of all my little stories. Firstly though I thought it was going to be nice today, but it’s a bit grey first thing. I was reading about [more…]
Month: June 2021
Arts
The Swaling, Part Sixty
It is nineteen eighty-four. If Big Brother is watching he will observe myself, my colleague Natasha Williams and a disguise enhancing borrowed toddler (called Jakey) in a pushchair hunkered on a bench beneath a tree. [more…]
America
Critical Race Theory and Hussein Obama
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi. I was reading the words of probably [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 175
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 174 and a GP mug Glazinova (Contact [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1996
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1996 Featured Album: Lighthouse Family – Ocean Drive This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that much longer [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Twenty Two
Jinnie and Penny entered King Charles the Martyr Church in Mutton Lane, Potters Bar. Jinnie shivered, despite it being a pleasant sunny early June day, the brick-built church felt chilly. But then maybe it was [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th June 2021 Panel: Mark Harper (Conservative) Sarah Jones (Labour) Rosemary Squire (Trafalgar Entertainment) Daniel Finkelstein (Journalist and peer) Ian Blackford (SNP) Venue: London & Cornwall Gloria de Piero, the gal who puts [more…]
20th Century
Scout Moor
In weather fit for neither man nor beast, we climb through a northern landscape, sculpted from rock by water, and the detritus from receding ice, to emerge into sunlight. And there we come across a [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering, Part Twenty
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…]