Fiction
Pale Hands 4
‘Daddy!’ It was almost simultaneous. I dashed down for the phone, uncoiled what I had once thought were absurdly long lengths of cable, carried the phone up to the turn in the stairs, flipped the [more…]
Month: May 2022
Hobbies
Always Worth Saying’s Fleet Review
Nelson reminded us it takes two years to build a frigate and two hundred years to build a tradition. The odd, the quirky, the eccentric fuels that tradition and provides the cement that bonds fellow [more…]
Fiction
Samyaze Chapter 6 Camp Mitkan Adam, Training Areas – May 2006
They piled their weapons, Ephod combat vest, helmet and were sent on a three-kilometre run. It was pleasant running through the woods and Afarin soon passed the other women and Zelig the pilot. She ran [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Part One Hundred And Forty Four
Monday Another week starts with sunshine and warmth, is it going to last? I hope so! Bozzie said it’s summer so he didn’t want porridge for breakfast. The Little Otter gave him a bowl of [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Fifteen
From Irun on the Spanish/French border, my father and grandparents made their way south and east to San Sebastian in their heroic Ford 8. It is 1952. Famous for its magnificent double bay and beeches, [more…]
20th Century
Air Drop to Suez
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) There comes a moment in every good reporter’s life when he has to take a chance. [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Four – Carole King
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 Twenty
The taller of the MI5 men led the sisters, with the shorter man behind them, through a door marked ‘No Exit’, down a staircase and out onto the inner perimeter road. In an area marked [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 19th May 2022 The Panel: Lucy Frazer (Conservative) Lucy Powel (Labour) Emily Carver (Institute of Economic Affairs) Mo Hussein (Commentator) Alyn Smith (SNP) Venue: Liverpool JUDGE NOT, THAT THEE BE NOT JUDGED. FOR [more…]