Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Fifteen
As they drove back, Sally said how her day had gone, she had loved the firearms part, the classroom part she wasn’t too keen on, but if it had to be done, she would do [more…]
Month: March 2025
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: The Day Music Died Pt 2
Greetings pop pickers! Please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight’s missive was originally entitled Splat!, but I thought that a [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 20th March 2025 The Panel: Steve Reed (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Richard Bacon (Broadcaster) Fraser Nelson (Columnist) Greg Swenson (Republicans Overseas) Venue: Reading Steve Reed OBE is Labour MP for Croydon North and [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Three
Jinnie looked around the hotel breakfast room and spotted Brian and Belinda reading their breakfast menus. She headed across the room and asked, “Do you mind if I join you?” Belinda looked up and said, [more…]
Communism
We are running out of bread and circuses
It takes a lot to keep a population anaesthetised. Anaesthesia, as medical Puffins will attest, is a very tricky and demanding mistress. A dash too much potion here, or an insufficient soupçon of elixir there, [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Four
In Part 3, I recounted how Hans Coutandin, in his letters to his girlfriend Eva Möller, wrote that he had been to Wilna in Poland, then Minsk in Byelorussia, had then been wounded in the [more…]
America
DJT has come out
(not the words you were perhaps anticipating…) to claim that the 11th hour Biden pardons are illegitimate because they were signed by autopen and, moreover, “Joe did not know.” Hmmmmmmmmmm I suspect this will be [more…]
Diary
A View From (Above) The Greenhouse; An Open Letter….
Before we get into the progress (or otherwise) happening at the small oasis of calm and solitude that is the old greenhouse and the recently constructed raised beds, how about a little “who used which [more…]
Arts
Early Spring is pleasant in Hong Kong
Early Spring is pleasing in Hong Kong – twenty or so degrees, varying humidity and breeze, but pleasant. The Hong Kong flower show starts today (14 March). An indication of a growing season rather different [more…]