Hobbies
Visit to a Ghost Town
My wife and I have taken many holidays in the USA to visit friends and relatives and generally just to enjoy various aspects of American culture. When my wife was younger she had been employed [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Five
Part 5 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F The Pas, Manitoba The trick about getting round this vast, wide-open country in a hurry, [more…]
Arts
The Birds (1963)
Not the most obvious choice to start with when delving into the Hitchcock canon, he did better films undoubtedly, but The Birds is just a great example of pure story telling. We are not weighed [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seven
Monday Good morning everyone, it’s another grey morning and I hear it’s going to rain later so no windowsill for me when I have finished duties. This place is relaxed today as the Rich Boy [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Seven
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here Part Four is here Part Five is here Part Six is here This [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Giorgio Moroder
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly tribute to the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are quite simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Six – Chapter One
Jinnie, Paolo, the twins and Izzy stepped from the limousine that driven them from the house in Hadley to the British Airways First Class wing at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Porters quickly loaded their luggage onto [more…]
Arts
A View From the Farmhouse, Part Three
‘Had we but World enough and time, This coyness lady were no crime………………. But at my back I always hear time’s winged Charriot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lye Deserts of vast eternity……………………’ [more…]
Authoritarianism
The slow, stealthy but steady spread of absolutism
Over the last couple of years, we saw countless examples of free speech suppression and of the steep price paid by those who chose to exercise that right. Divergent ideas and thoughts contradicting the government [more…]