Hobbies
Crossword No. 186
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a choice of GP authored book. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 184 and a GP [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Eight – The Seekers
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Eight – The Seekers If I get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Eleven
It was about 6:30 and the Walsh family were nearly home from Windsor when Mr Walsh asked, “Anyone hungry?”. Jinnie realised she was famished, she had only managed a cup of tea and a scone [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 2nd September 2021 Present: Rupert Allason (Former Conservative MP) Nigel West (Author) Nigel Farage (Broadcaster) Venue: Pints of View Rupert William Simon Allason, who writes as Nigel West, was born in London in [more…]
20th Century
The Secret of the Loch
This is another article by my Uncle, John Alldridge. In addition to writing for the Manchester Evening News, he also wrote many articles for the BBC (back in the 50s and 60s when it was [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Great Road Safety Con
Fifteen years ago I wrote an aide memoire on speed cameras & their futility on road safety, I co-authored it with an old fashioned traffic cop when I was in office. Subsequently I was asked [more…]
Arts
Moonlighting as a DJ
For a large part of my twenties, I lived a double life. By day I worked on the farm or as a tree surgeon, and sometimes even in an office. I would play football and [more…]
Arts
The Royal Ballet School
Both Master and Miss Reggie took ballet lessons from an early age (Master Reggie starting at 5 and Miss Reggie at 4). They showed a talent for dance from an early age and Mrs Reggie [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 22
COMMENTS ON PART 21 AND YARNS ENSUING FROM THEM I really enjoyed the comments on part 21 and it seems invidious to single out just a few. However, I must apologise to both Wattylers wife [more…]