Fiction
Downfall, Chapter Eleven
Enjoying a lazy breakfast, Sally said she wanted to go shopping, I liked the dress I had on for the dinner, I want something similar. Dave followed her round the shops, the receptionist had told [more…]
Month: October 2025
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Pirates!
Ahoy shipmates! Avast behind and shiver me timbers! Please be welcome – ya scurvy, land-lubbery dogs – to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and yet another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 16th October 2025 The Panel: Heidi Alexander (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat) Ash Sarkar (Political commentator) Matthew Syed (Columnist and author) Venue: Bishop’s Stortford In these days of health and [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter One
Jinnie sat at her desk in Maple House and, in her head, reviewed the last year. She divided events into TT SuperBurger-related work, SIS, and family. She wanted to speak to the board later that [more…]
20th Century
A Scottish Tragedy
Fifty five years ago, I would have been thirteen, I joined the Scouts, I had been in the Boys Brigade but didn’t like all the marching and keep fit. The 39th Dundee Pack were based [more…]
Arts
Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 6
In Part 5, we crossed back over the US border into Montana for an overnight stop in Billings. As any regular traveller knows, one should always pack a universal bathplug for those occasions where the [more…]
Human Interest
The Italian Job, Part 12
Sunday morning and it is time to return to the UK with the mission fully accomplished; we checked out of the NH at about 10:00AM and I showed my sister one last time around Zavantem, [more…]
Cooking
A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; A Better Life…..Innit?
We had a bit of a blow up our way last weekend, we didn’t get it quite so bad as other places, so I don’t want to make light of it, but we lost only [more…]
Culture
Loose Women
Details of a letter (1) signed by a wide cross section of an entirely unrepresentative clique of the Aspiring Great and Good Loose Women, accusing the Far Right of jumping on their favourite bandwagon, asylum seekers and [more…]