20th Century
South American Journey, Part Seven
More writings by uncle, John Alldridge. This time he is reporting from South America in 1960 for the Birmingham Evening Mail – Jerry F A boom city built on oil So I end as I [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Twenty-Eight
Miranda, Melissa and Andrew tried for several days to come up with a fancy name for the new business and failed miserably. In the end it was Belinda who suggested the name should reflect the [more…]
Arts
A View From The Farmhouse, Part One
This is the first of an occasional series looking at life in Northern France in general and plotting progress with the farm. Setting the scene: Here in rural Lower Normandy things move at a slow [more…]
21st Century
Cocaine Importation Agency and Qatari bagman Agent Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, American agent1 (The Frog on the Seine is all mine all mine) On 2nd September 2005 Jacques Chirac suffered a serious stroke and ceased to govern. He was no longer able to execute [more…]
Arts
Debbie Harry
My admiration for Deborah Harry goes back some time. I first met her in 1999, and again this year, both times when she was travelling to/from Glastonbury. For me, she was born to deliver the [more…]
Democracy
OTF: Land Reform
Intro Why all the reforms in the world may prevent us from getting wealthier. Having read Henry George, I am having my doubts about the ability to easily bring long-term prosperity for us serfs. I [more…]
19th Century
The Big Shift: The decline of Western politics
Those of us who have read and studied political history, who have closely observed its evolution and especially those who have taken note of all the tactics and ploys used over the last couple of [more…]
14th Century
Crom’s Deep Dive: Extract of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
It has been too long since I offered up to the folk of this parish a ‘deep dive’ of my literary musings. I’ve a scattering of unfinished articles but something somewhat meatier was needed to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and One
Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week of madness. I demand to know what has happened to summer this year. I’m sure that when I was a kitten, summer days were hot and [more…]