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Month: October 2023

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Giorgio Moroder

13th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly tribute to the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are quite simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

13th October 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 12th October 2023 The Panel: Victoria Atkins (Conservative) Yvette Cooper (Labour) Myleene Klass (Entertainer) Sonia Sodha (Former Labour Advisor) Jake Wallis Simons (The Jewish Chronicle) Piers Morgan (Talk TV) Venue: London If the [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story, Book Six – Chapter One

12th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Jinnie, Paolo, the twins and Izzy stepped from the limousine that driven them from the house in Hadley to the British Airways First Class wing at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Porters quickly loaded their luggage onto [more…]

Arts

A View From the Farmhouse, Part Three

12th October 2023 Going Postal 0

‘Had we but World enough and time, This coyness lady were no crime………………. But at my back I always hear time’s winged Charriot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lye Deserts of vast eternity……………………’ [more…]

Cooking

Homemade Sweet and Sour Chicken

11th October 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

This is so superb, trust me.  You may (indeed may not) like your local Chinese Sweet and Sour, but after you have made this, you will probably stick to homemade. This is for four adult [more…]

Authoritarianism

The slow, stealthy but steady spread of absolutism

11th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Over the last couple of years, we saw countless examples of free speech suppression and of the steep price paid by those who chose to exercise that right. Divergent ideas and thoughts contradicting the government [more…]

Cooking

A View From (Almost Opposite) The Greenhouse; A Massacre Of Innocents

10th October 2023 Colin Cross 0

I’m pretty sure it was one of “The Merry Pranksters” and, if my memory serves (which it rarely does these days unless it’s a Temptations or Bob Dylan lyric, or how much a pint was [more…]

20th Century

’59 Trail, Part Four

10th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Part 4 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Churchill, on Hudson’s Bay Life in Churchill — as in all frontier townships — gravitates [more…]

Arts

F for Fake (1973)

9th October 2023 Going Postal 0

What is art if not a forgery of the real world. A reflection of what we see in our lives, and then try to convey to others, a form of primeval communication. This is the [more…]

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