Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Six
Monday Morning my lovely readers, gosh these Monday mornings come around too quickly for me, now I’m getting to be an old cat I think one day off a week is too little. Who do [more…]
Month: March 2022
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Eight
After last week’s Nostalgia Album sadness at hearing great aunt Ernestine lost her husband in the First War, her son in the Second War and spent much of her life in the Lancaster County Mental [more…]
Authoritarianism
Here we go again!!! Fauci is back!!
(The opinion below is the opinion of your humble scribe! You may or not agree but guess what? I don’t care!! It has been great not hearing about Covid every second of every day or [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 213
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 212 and a GP mug Glazinova (Contact [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Seven – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
If 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 be [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Twelve
Larry woke early on Monday morning, he had a feeling that everything was OK and Jinnie would be back later this morning. He didn’t know why or how but he was certain she would be [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th March 2022 The Panel: Damian Hines (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Dom Joly (Comedian) Mark Serwokta (PCS Union) Venue: Reading Puffins often wonder, in the unread comments nested below [more…]
Hobbies
Board Game Review: Twilight Struggle
If you think of board games, traditional favourites such as Monopoly, Cluedo or Risk probably come to mind. However, in the late 1990s and 2000s a new generation of board games started being developed that [more…]
20th Century
South Pole or Bust
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) The special correspondent is a modest chap. He’ll tell you that he’s only a reporter watching [more…]