Arts
WG’s 21st Cruise, Part Two
June 11th – Embarkation day Up early this morning but I am in no rush to do anything. I must drive to Southampton later and park at the Ocean Terminal. Time to potter around, make [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Ninety-Three
Monday I’m back! While my scribe has been on the high seas, I have been having a lazy old time with a lot of snoozing in the warm weather. Well, all apart from one day [more…]
Biography
Trade Plating Around England, Part Thirteen
This time, Covid, furlough and enough is enough. Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one is here Part two [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Five, Chapter Nineteen
Jinnie and Lucia where busy feeding the twins their breakfast and having their regular chat when they both suddenly stopped. Willie had distinctly said ‘Mum’ while reaching out for his mashed up boiled egg. Millie [more…]
Authoritarianism
Petition The King
It happened a couple of weeks ago. I was feeling rather disconsolate. Deflated. Depressed, even. As I watched our freedom slip away, largely unremarked by the mainstream media who were busy frothing over The Next [more…]
21st Century
African Regime Gone Bad: The Bad Lads Club Impunity
Whatever crimes the RPF had or hadn’t committed inside Rwanda, its interventions in DRC and meddling in neighbouring states (Uganda and Burundi) had exposed a casualness to human life, cavalier ruthlessness, and shocking levels of [more…]
17th Century
Eccentric Aristos: Henry Cyril Paget and Henry De La Poer Beresford.
Born in 1875 Henry the eldest son of the 4th Marquess of Anglesey Citation needed here because it was rumoured throughout his life the Marquess was not his real father and that his mother had [more…]
20th Century
Adventure in New Guinea, Part Three
In 1969, my uncle, John Alldridge visited New Guinea to “observe the attempt to weld a primitive people to a modern society”. This is the third of his reports for the Vancouver Sun. – Jerry [more…]
Arts
WG’s 21st Cruise
Chapter 1 – Preliminaries I had just returned from a Christmas and New Year cruise when I started thinking about booking the next Christmas cruise, being a single traveller, you need to book early to [more…]