Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Five
Monday Morning peeps. A little grey but warm this morning, the woman on the TV says it is going to be sunny and quite warm here in London this morning. Bozzie is off to Northern [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Hobbies
Crossword No. 220
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a 1 oz silver Britannia. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 219 and a GP mug [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Three – Chapter Twenty-One
Jinnie, Alberto and the Sommelier met Belinda mid-morning two days later to see the West End restaurant. They were in the middle of their lunchtime prep so the visit to the kitchen was somewhat limited [more…]
20th Century
Press Photographer, Part One
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) Halfway over Putney Bridge the No 14 bus jolted to a halt. Behind it the rush-hour [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Anti-Pass Movement in France
This article was inspired by two videos I watched on Saturday, the first one on Dan Astin-Gregory’s Pandemic Podcast (1), the second on Hugo Talks (2). The Pandemic Podcast is an interesting YouTube channel. It [more…]
Business
“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”, Part Two
Claudio Grass (CG): A lot people still consider it safer to go with a huge, established corporation, thinking these solutions would be more reliable and robust, especially for business applications. What is your take on [more…]
Book Review
Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials, by Alice Roberts
One of my favourite tv moments was when we saw Alice Roberts approach an eminent palaeontologist on site. He dropped what he was doing. ‘Hello, Alice’ he said warmly, walking towards the camera, extending her [more…]
Conservatives
A Letter to my MP
‘ Dear Jason It has been a while since I’ve written to you. Thankfully your authoritarian party leadership read the mood of seething anger in this nation and abandoned their series of 1984 inspired restrictions they [more…]
Fiction
Pale Hands 4
‘Daddy!’ It was almost simultaneous. I dashed down for the phone, uncoiled what I had once thought were absurdly long lengths of cable, carried the phone up to the turn in the stairs, flipped the [more…]