Cooking
A truly cracking Biryani
We are fortunate at chez Rookwood to offer our guests a wide variety of cuisine, everything from Scottish and English to Italian, French, German, Chinese and Indian. The latter is a bit of a misnomer [more…]
Month: August 2021
Business
Switzerland: The safest of havens
The covid crisis, and especially the destructive governmental responses to it, have wreaked havoc with the global economy and with our societies. However, the chaos and the widespread uncertainty that prevailed over the last year [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Part 33
ROSS Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt: He only lived but till he was a man; The which no sooner had his prowess confirm’d In the unshrinking station where he fought, But [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Seven
Monday Morning all. I woke up to thunder and torrential rain this morning but it must have been a passing heavy shower because by the time I had a good stretch, a scratch and stuck [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Sixty Nine
We’re in the underground gaming room of the Lucky Saddle Craft Company, sat around the Kranji table. We being the unlikely finalists of an unlikely competition, raised from Singapore’s high and not so high society, [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 184
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a choice of GP authored book. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 183 and a GP [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Six – Gerry & The Pacemakers
If I get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Nine
Jinnie woke early on Tuesday morning and when she moved she realised she had a slight headache, a disadvantage of working behind a bar and being bought a few drinks. Right she thought, it was [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 19th August 2021 Present: Alan Hope (Election candidate) Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative) Nigel Farage (Broadcaster) Venue: Pints of View This week’s first guest was Alan Hope. Who he? Alan ‘Howling Laud’ Hope leader of [more…]