Hobbies
Hobby Days And Open Days
I think I told Puffins that my winter hobby day project (when I can’t get into the garden) was an engine shed for my model railway, Charlisle. Based on the old Kingmoor steam shed, long [more…]
Articles by Always Worth Saying
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Almeria to Barcelona
Valencia After last time’s run in the general direction of home, from Gibraltar to Almeria, we pick up the pace further along the Spanish Mediterranean coast at Valencia. With no photos of the intervening Costa [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Tory Leadership Debate Review
Leadership Debate 4th August 2022 Present: Rishi Sunak Liz Truss Kay Burley (Moderator) Venue: London It is not uncommon to hear of someone missing a plane that subsequently crashes. No doubt there were some on [more…]
20th Century
Nostalia Album, Heading Home
Malaga to Motril and Beyond Having made an heroic 1952 journey from Carlisle to Gibraltar in a Ford 8 in order to visit Aunt Lil, Uncle Rob and cousin Anne, my father and grandparents set [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Tory Leadership Debate Review
Leadershiop Debate 25th July 2022 Contenders: Rishi Sunak Liz Truss Venue: Stoke-on-Trent Monday saw the first televised leadership clash in a disappointing Tory leadership contest that has seen the number of contestants reduced to the [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team
November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Four, Chapter One
Larry the Cat sat on the tree stump in the dapple shade, enjoying scanning the woodland around him through his half-closed eyes. In front of him, on the other side of a wire fence, ran [more…]
19th Century
Review: 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis De Sade
Just as an 18th century Président may stalk provincial France looking for innocents to corrupt, so bots chew their way through blogs looking for relevant wares to advertise. We must proceed with caution. On these [more…]
Arts
Tory Leadership Runners & Riders
This was supposed to be a review of Tuesday’s SKY News televised Tory Party leadership debate but the cream of the party didn’t turn up. I wonder why? These TV debates have a chequered history. [more…]