Animals
Building the Aquarium
In the last piece I got to the point of having bought a fishtank. Bloody massive thing, weighing in at about 150kg when empty (it took four blokes to lift it out of the house [more…]
Blog
Arts
Sunday Lunch
“Roast pork lunch at Sandown Park Hotel” by ultrakml is licensed under CC BY 2.0 There has been much activity on GP regarding recipes and food. I was thinking of this the other day after [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Six
Andy Bowson received the command and sprinted across the street, followed by the others. Visibility was returning, only the smoke billowing out from parts of the building giving them any cover from unseen gunmen that [more…]
Arts
I so fight, but not as one that beateth the air : 1 CORINTHIANS 9:26
Are you soft, lad? FIIIIGHT! This is a great English tradition, we get raucous and fight. It is part of our heritage, and I will not have it any other way. Not the ritualised fighting [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1956
Featured song: Elvis Presley with Hound Dog This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
European Union
Winnie The Pooh Reports On The EU
“I’ve been offered a new job”, confided Pooh to Piglet as they sat in the autumn sunshine in Hundred Acre Wood. “I wasn’t really looking for one, but a nice man from the BBC Department [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Five
One of Andy Bowson’s team spotted movement through the settling dust high up in Broadcasting House and called out; Andy trained his carbine’s telescopic sight on it to see four half naked women lined up [more…]
Animals
Project Fishy
Anyone who has read any of my articles knows I do like a good project. If I know that I’m going to be stuck in the house, looking after kids with bad weather, I need [more…]
Authoritarianism
Those Damn Nazis Again
Once again it seems we are back to labelling everyone and anything as far-right. It’s a repeating theme and I feel as though I am bashing my head against a metaphorical brick wall. Again, we [more…]