Biography
Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Two
Part one is here This time: My first day The next morning, I was up at 08.00 had a bath and breakfast. By 09.30 I was ready to go. All attempts to persuade Graham or [more…]
Month: July 2023
20th Century
G5E3 – Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Early Days Middle Era
Welcome pop pickers. Back to Rock ‘n’ Roll, the early days. This is the sort of music that makes you want to tap your feet, dance, and singalong. Thank you to Wiki, Britannica, and Top [more…]
Literature
The Non-appearance of Question Time Review: An Explanation
Are you all OK? I hope so. No doubt Puffins are distraught to read this week’s Question Time Review will not appear and that this circumstance is likely to continue until the autumn. Given the [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Twenty-One
Jinnie was meeting Miranda in the Costa Coffee at Vauxhall station, 45 minutes before their meeting with Emma. The plan was to discuss ideas for the SIS Christmas parties and coordinate their presentation. Jinnie had [more…]
Authoritarianism
OTF: Good Enough For Their Constituents …
Intro I started thinking about this when it was announced Colin Pitchfork was going to be released again. He murdered two teenage girls and raped others. I’m sick of politicians being seen to do the [more…]
Biography
Deborah, Part IV
“Gavin, nice to meet you,” said Oliver, extending his hand. “You too, Oliver isn’t it?” “It is but everybody calls me Olly, except my wife, but then she is Welsh.” “OK, Olly it is then,” [more…]
Arts
Scanning Historic Documents
There is tons of paper based ephemera left behind from recent times. Most of it is of interest to someone, and much of it describes life in the UK and abroad from the 1830’s Stuff [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From The Greenhouse; A War To End All Wars?
The summer, what little we’ve seen of it since the heady days of the June “heatwave”, moves along bringing with it dire warnings of the upcoming conflagration about to be unleashed on us all, not [more…]
America
The demise of the dollar: What comes after that?
A good start Whatever one might think about which currency is better suited to be used in trade or as a benchmark or as a central bank reserve, the fact remains that the USD’s days [more…]