Literature
A hell of a commute
This is a tale of what was once my daily commute for a few months during the 70s. Admittedly, not one of the Mogadishu Express to Kings Cross or the hell of the M25 car [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Arts
The Novichok doll’s house
Meet Bill and Chiara. Bill and Chiara are genuine refugees from the aberrant dictatorship of Tortuous Mong. Dissidents living in exile have nicknamed Tortuous Mong “The Nerve Agent” because she shattered her own people’s nerves. [more…]
America
An Eventful Ride, Part Three
As I live in Cornwall where the temperature rarely gets into the mid seventies Fahrenheit and where , living as I do overlooking the English Channel, the ambient humidity levels are so high, 66% on [more…]
Arts
PMQs with Going Postal
Link to PMQs on Parliament TV, or watch on GP TV. Agenda Oral questions: International Development (including Topical Questions) Prime Minister’s Question Time Ten Minute Rule Motion: Reservoirs (Flood Risk) Holly Lynch MP (Halifax, Labour) [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Twenty-Two
“Take your designer bag and your phone and your card reader and your skinny arse, and piss off. And don’t let me see you here again, you understand?” The street beggar hurriedly gathered his stuff [more…]
Literature
Winnie The Pooh and Greta the Climate Change Guru-ette
Piglet decided that he was going to visit his friend Pooh, as it was a bright and sunny morning in Hundred Acre Wood. He was somewhat discomfited to find the little clearing outside Pooh’s abode filled [more…]
19th Century
Kipling, Conan Doyle and the Civilian Rifle Movement
Introduction Public interest in competitive rifle shooting in the UK arose out of the Volunteer Movement that was inaugurated in 1859 with the object of producing a trained, armed militia to counter the then perceived [more…]
20th Century
Advertising
Advertising seems to be almost everywhere these days, I don’t really object to it in principle as, without it, much of the world as we know it would look very different, but much modern advertising [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 75
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug of your choice, or GP beer mats. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winners. [more…]