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Month: November 2021

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eighteen

7th November 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning merry readers, another week of reporting stretches ahead of me. I have been eating my breakfast and listening to the radio. I do wish Bozzie would stick to one station. I just get [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eight

6th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]

America

January 6th – Political prisoners abused!

6th November 2021 Fred Brownbill 0

This blog follows well onto my blog from a few days ago about Americans growing a set!! If this subject matter does not infuriate you and make you want to stand up and do something, [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 195

6th November 2021 Going Postal 0

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 194 and a [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Seventeen – Pussycat

5th November 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Seventeen – Pussycat 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 Twenty

5th November 2021 Going Postal 0

Jinnie was in the unit’s minibus on the way to the shooting competition in Southampton when her mobile rang and a voice said, “Please hold for the Prime Minister.” Seconds later the now familiar voice [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

5th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 4th November 2021 The Panel: Paul Scully (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Caroline Lucas (Greens) Paul Polman (Former CEO) Venue: Eastleigh Amir wants to know if Tory sleaze has returned in [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, March 1955

4th November 2021 Going Postal 0

Two years into the Mau Mau emergency, my uncle John Alldridge reported from Kenya for the Manchester Evening News in March, 1955 – Jerry F.   Tactical Force Headquarters East Africa Command Nyeri, Kenya, Monday [more…]

Authoritarianism

Apollo 13 (Revised)

4th November 2021 Going Postal 0

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the second, on that well-known danger to Life [more…]

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