Animals
Larry’s diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy Nine
Monday Good morning on this Bank Holiday Monday. It is nice and quiet here in Number Ten with only a small crew on. The girl who was on feeding duty this morning was not very [more…]
Month: May 2025
Christianity
An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I
Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]
Fiction
The Past is Present, Chapter Four
The Range Rover was ready for them, Dave put the holdall with the weapons in the boot, Sally’s heart was thumping. They set off driving through the Saturday night traffic, as they drove east, the [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth Pt. 1
Greeting, pop pickers, and please be welcome to this week’s fabulously flamboyant Friday. Ah, the 1970s… A splendid decade. But they weren’t just about Ford Cortinas, Vesta curries, platform shoes, ludicrous flares, questionable facial hair, [more…]
20th Century
Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review
Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Nine
The last full day of the cruise was a sea day as the ship chugged the 150 miles from Martinique to Barbados very slowly. The twins spent the morning by the pool with everyone else, [more…]
Hobbies
On Greenlaning
Greenlaning, the driving of motorised vehicles on the approximately 6,000 miles of tracks, paths and byways with legal rights of way in England & Wales, can be understandably controversial. This article will not explore the [more…]