I have been wondering how to continue with articles on the space-coins collecting theme. It is a vast subject and open to many directions of thought. However, a glance through history quickly shows that 2022, [more…]
SOD-YOU-KO Word Search First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a mystery prize! Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 201 and a Christmas [more…]
All the way to work Jinnie was puzzling over what the prime minister had in mind for her this time. When she kissed Paolo goodbye he said, “Stop worrying it will be OK.” Entering the [more…]
In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]
Those of you with longer and good memories may remember my article from January 2019 about protests in Hong Kong and titled ‘The whiff of teargas’. After recovering from the said tear gas, I wrote: [more…]
I love wrist watches. My grandfather was a clockmaker, so it’s probably a genetic thing. The family story is that he narrowly avoided execution during WW2 by offering to mend the officers’ watches. (I had [more…]
I’m not at all sure now how we got on to the subject of birds, but I was talking (I can hear her now, ‘To, dear, not with: the Americans get so hopelessly confused about [more…]
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a Christmas GP mug AND keyring. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 200 and a £20 [more…]
Jinnie and her father arrived at the front of the church with her head in turmoil. It was when she saw the best man with a huge smirk on his face she knew that he [more…]
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