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Month: October 2021

Fiction

The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 9

31st October 2021 Blown Periphery 2791 Comments

Edge had been on enough operations to know that the work was ninety per-cent routine and ten per-cent sheer terror and exhilaration. Two days later he had gone up in Huey that was doing an [more…]

Fiction

Wildfowling: The Spirit of the Marsh

31st October 2021 Columba Palumbus 2463 Comments

Evening flight had been a total loss and the bad weather looked to be closing in fast. Jay the Spaniel cut a piteous figure, highlighted as he was in the feeble light from a head [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, One Hundred and Seventeen

31st October 2021 Going Postal 2176 Comments

Monday These Monday mornings seem to come around quicker and quicker for your intrepid cat reporter. One good thing about the family being back in residence is that the Little Otter has got her way [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Seven

30th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 2625 Comments

In part four of Mystery Album, I speculated that the above photograph (taken by our mystery family aboard the wherry Palace) was of a Norfolk Broads maltings. Judging by the order of the photos, it [more…]

America

Why the Push Is on to Make Pandemic Life ‘Permanent’

30th October 2021 Fred Brownbill 2006 Comments

Today’s blog is incredible and a MUST READ! The author, Tom Mullen, hits it out the park. COVID-19 is new. But the reaction to the crisis is starting to look familiar. One year after Americans [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 194

30th October 2021 Going Postal 2182 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a book to the value of £20. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 193 and a [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Sixteen – 10CC

29th October 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2986 Comments

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Sixteen – 10cc 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 [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Nineteen

29th October 2021 Going Postal 2787 Comments

Jinnie parked on the off-street parking in front of her house. She had told the flatmates, well technically now her housemates, that she had rented a four-bedroom furnished house on their behalf. Over the summer [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

29th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 1864 Comments

Question Time 28th October 2021 The Panel: Simon Clarke (Conservative) Lucy Frazer (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Sir Howard Davies (NatWest) Dr Miatta Fahnbulleh (New Economics Foundation) Jenny Campbell (Businesswoman) Venue: Stockport Your humble author has [more…]

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