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Month: July 2022

Fiction

Samyaza Chapter 16, The West Bank, Fatah Interrogation Centre – September 2006

31st July 2022 Blown Periphery 0

This Chapter I’m warning you all, is extremely brutal.  It hopefully demonstrates the cruelty and indifference the State shows to those who conduct its business. They had already made incursions into the Palestinian occupied territories [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Fifty-Two

31st July 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, back to work this morning despite it being warm in London. Bozzie is back from his leaving party at Chequers. I hear it went well. This morning he is off to [more…]

20th Century

Nostalia Album, Heading Home

30th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Malaga to Motril and Beyond Having made an heroic 1952 journey from Carlisle to Gibraltar in a Ford 8 in order to visit Aunt Lil, Uncle Rob and cousin Anne, my father and grandparents set [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 229

30th July 2022 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a book of your choice (subject to T&Cs) Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 228 and [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty-Three – Kevin Bloody Wilson

29th July 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

(Warning – contains filthy foul language, not suitable for playing at work, or where there are children or snowflakes around) If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Four, Part Two

29th July 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie and Paolo both took a week off work to settle into the new house. She and Paolo moved into one of the en-suite bedrooms and decided that the second could be a guest room. [more…]

Elections

Will we just make a cup of tea?

29th July 2022 well_chuffed 0

Do the math as our American cousins say. Keith has said he wants to form a Labour government but has no intention of negotiating with any other Party either before or after the election. We [more…]

Arts

Long memories at Clashanimud

28th July 2022 Going Postal 0

We are often now asked to believe that European countries have no culture, or even any connection to their own pasts – that they are all lands of immigrants, blank sheets on which anything can [more…]

Business

Working in Kuwait

28th July 2022 well_chuffed 0

On the 22nd May 1978 at the tender age of 27, me and ‘er indoors flew to Kuwait so I could go and work. It was a bit of an adventure, I had no idea [more…]

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