Hobbies
Crossword No. 167
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 166 and a GP mug IN LIKE [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Fourteen
Jinnie walked down the slope from the northbound platform to the tunnel under the lines at Potters Bar Station. At the bottom, she turned right to the car park where her dad had said he [more…]
Collecting
Going For Gold – Part 6
Previous articles in this series have focused heavily on coins. This time I take a look at the history of bullion, ingots and bars for a change. What is Bullion? Claude de Bullion, became the [more…]
Biography
The Real Goldfinger?
Whilst doing some research for a future article in the ‘Going for Gold’ series I came across an interesting story which I thought would make for a separate article in its own right. Charles W. [more…]
Fiction
The Dismantlers
He was surprised to have a call from the Surgery to say that his Doctor wanted a word: surprised, because they had been incommunicado since lockdown began, doubly so now, since she had invited him [more…]
Cooking
Knives and keeping them sharp
So.. we’ve discussed my obsession with Japanese knives (see: An introduction to Japanese knives) and there were lots of lovely comments, but one came through most – how to keep a knife sharp! This article [more…]
Economics
Reality check: The “miracle recovery” narrative
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been constantly bombarded by news reports and “expert” analyses celebrating an incredible global economic recovery. They’re not even presented as projections or expectations anymore, but as a fact, as though [more…]
Authoritarianism
Coronavirus – the inevitable inquiry
When, this bloody war is ooooover, Oh, how happy I will beeeee. That’s how I feel about that virus! At some stage, we do need to get back to normal. Remember those days, when you’d [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Eighty Nine
Monday Another week and another Monday morning but this is a holiday and there are not many in the office today. Bozzie has one of his good suits on so I guess he’s doing another [more…]