20th Century
Boxing Day Past
Yes, I know it isn’t Boxing Day, it’s the day after, but not being around a century ago I can’t repeat the newses from those days with the usual mildly exaggerated and slightly embellished personal [more…]
Month: December 2024
Arts
Endeavour’s Mega Christmas Trivia Quiz
No using the internet… All questions 1 mark each, unless otherwise indicated. Bonus Points available where indicated. Self-marking – answers to follow when SB posts them. If Puffins prefer, they can download and printout the [more…]
Diary
A View (Actually) From The Greenhouse….Everything Is Not As It Seems…
Like me, you’d have been saddened but unsurprised by the latest in a long line of cars, as if driven by some kind of divine hand, crashing into innocent people going about their ordinary, if [more…]
Arts
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Painted in about 1470/75, it is in the National Gallery. In memory of Caroline Catherine McNicholas 2nd October 1957 – 3rd January 2022 OldTrout
Arts
Silent Night (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle)
The Silent Night Chapel (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle) is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol Silent Night and its librettist, Joseph Mohr [more…]
Literature
The Peninsula Hotel
Just a few hotels in the world are known to almost everyone – Raffles in Singapore, Reid’s Palace in Madeira, The Dorchester in London, Waldorf Astoria in New York spring easily to mind. Add to [more…]
America
He’s not even in office yet
The news out of the White House that Joe Biden didn’t actually do anything during his four year term, for example only 9 cabinet meetings and you had to provide him with written questions and [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings, Part Nine
Note to self – don’t do a final proof reading late at night after a whisky or two …….. However, life goes on I see the Tottenham Turnip and Pixie Balls have different views on [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Sixty-Three
Monday Good morning all, there’s a bit of watery sun this morning but it’s a bit chilly. It also a happy day here in No 10 where both Legohead and Robber Reeves are out of [more…]