Arts
More Artwork 2021, Part Two
6 months on from my last article, I thought I would write another but this time include information on artists and art I aspire to own, rather than just focus on recent purchases, giving me [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Ethics
Kafka traps and Gish galloping
These are the ways many of the people you see in the media and politics lie and try to deceive you, not all but an awful lot of them come from the left unsurprisingly. First [more…]
Elections
Z is for … Zeitgeist, Generation Z and Le Z, the presumed candidate
The man who alerted me to the collapse of Western civilisation might soon be President of France. He did so at an event I attended on 4 November 2014: Eric Zemmour was in London to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hunderd and Fifteen
Monday Another Monday and back to work for this cat. Nice and peaceful as loads of people have gone to Manchester which I understand is ‘Oop North’ and has petrol. Perhaps Bozzie could make himself [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 192
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a book to the value of £20. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 191 and a [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Seventeen
Easter term didn’t start until 27th April which meant that Jinnie and her flatmates were looking at working for the SIS for around 3 weeks after Easter. To make it easier on them they were [more…]
20th Century
The Road Back to Normandy, Part Three
In May 1954 my uncle John Alldridge returned to Normandy. This is his third and final report for the Manchester Evening News. The lines at the end are inspired, I think, by the St. Crispin’s Day speech [more…]
Arts
Pyrography
Background Known as “pokerwork” until the late 19th Century, it is believed that this form of applied art has been practiced since Prehistoric times. At its most basic, it involves the burning of pictures or [more…]
Arts
A Holiday in Scotland, Part 3 (Loch Lomond to York )
Leaving Loch Lomond, we travelled down the M74 towards Carlisle and eventually on to the M6 where we took the A66 junction near Penrith, crossing the Pennines and headed towards the A1(M). We arrived in [more…]