Arts
The Year Turns, part 5
Beltane This important festival has been reinvented umpteen times throughout the ages. I knew it from childhood as May Day. On a couple of occasions while at primary school our class was forced to dance [more…]
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Hobbies
Crossword No. 168
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 167 and a GP mug b-bob (Do [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1989
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1989 Featured Album: The Road to Hell, Pt. I This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Fifteen
Jinnie was once again in the wood walking Bonnie when the burner phone rang. This time she had half expected it and didn’t jump, but Bonnie the beagle did. Fred Bear had to be somewhere [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 29nd April 2021 Panel: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative) Jon Ashworth (Labour) Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats) Tim Stanley (Journalist & historian) Danny Sriskandarajah (Oxfam) Venue: London Last week’s QT Review proved from first principles that [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering, Part Fifteen
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]
Arts
The Ugly Duckling County
When you think of the north of England, you think of fells and moors and hill farmers, of ruined abbeys and windswept Wolds, of gaunt mill chimneys, of terracing lurching crazily up bare hillsides, of [more…]
Collecting
Going for Gold – Part 7
I had vaguely heard of the Latin Monetary Union and decided to do some research for this article after viewing some gold coins from this period on an auction website. The Latin Monetary Union (LMU) [more…]
Arts
Postcard From November, Part 4
Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]