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Month: February 2022

19th Century

A Court for King Cholera

10th February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In 1967, as part of my Public Health Inspectors’ Education Board course, I remember attending a lecture given by Dr Moore, the then Medical Officer of Health for the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, [more…]

Fiction

The Girlies’ Cottage

10th February 2022 Going Postal 0

In the Devon village closest to the Andrei Sakharov Dissidents’ Campsite lived two young dissidents affectionately known to everyone as the Girlies. Although they looked like two peas in a pod, the Girlies were not [more…]

Engineering

Unnecessary Engineering

9th February 2022 Going Postal 0

Project 1: Scope Dials Welcome all and please gather round so I can waste a few minutes of your precious time on describing something that didn’t really need doing and no doubt would interest few. [more…]

Health

Your GP is simply a functionary

9th February 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

You were probably brought up on such medical TV programmes, depending on your age, as Dr.Kildare, Emergency Ward 10, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook or the many subsequent  programmes of a similar genre. The implication of such [more…]

17th Century

A View From The Greenhouse (A Savile Jibe, Really?)

8th February 2022 Colin Cross 0

If you thought strawberry tales was boring, then I guess you’d better hold my coat (as the saying goes). Following several days of not being able to even enter the greenhouse, apart from a cursory [more…]

Arts

King Arthur And The Battle Of Hastings

8th February 2022 bobo 0

Old, unhappy far-off things, and battles long ago… How do we know about King Arthur? Please note that this is not a rehash of the old “Did King Arthur exist?” historical chestnut. Whether or not [more…]

Arts

Another Caribbean Christmas, Part Four

7th February 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

Day 6 – Wednesday 29th December – St. Maarten Good morning from the beautiful tiny island of St. Maarten. I woke as we approached the port just as the sun was coming up, I think [more…]

Going Postal

Cipher – A Tribute To OldTrout

7th February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction Cipher – meaning zero (0), nothing or an empty set. Decipher – to make something out of that seemingly meaningless nothing. Caroline or ‘Old Trout’ (as we affectionately remember her) was a brilliant mathematician. [more…]

Fiction

The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 23

6th February 2022 Blown Periphery 0

Headquarters DEA, in the Pentagon City area of Arlington, Virginia. St Juan de Pasto Main Operating Base and Bogota On the day Edge got back to Pasto, members of the General Council of the CIA [more…]

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