Fiction
Downfall, Chapter Fourteen
Dave sat on an office chair, Sally was right, he was shattered. His eyes closed, he wasn’t sleeping, his mind was too active, he was planning the next move. When his phone rang, Sally answered [more…]
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Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Four
The twins were awake early and came bouncing into their parents’ suite just as the sun was coming up in a big red ball on the horizon. Willie pulled back the curtains and said, “Mummy, [more…]
Arts
Jury Service
As a result of DH’s current jury service, I started reflecting on my own experience when I was randomly selected to undertake it in 2010. At the time I was 23 and working on rotation [more…]
Arts
Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 9
Today I shall be boarding a ferry, but its departure time is 12h45 and the terminal is only 15 miles away, so no huge rush and there’s plenty of time for breakfast, which is apparently [more…]
Economics
Gold’s flashing warning: The end is nigh for fiat
Gold’s spectacular performance has drawn a lot of attention and invited endless analyses and commentaries. There are many theories out there as to why the yellow metal is surging like never before in modern memory, [more…]
Book Review
Anger Is An Energy, by John Lydon
‘They put a hot wire to my head Cos of the things I did and said They made these feelings go away Model citizen in every way’ (From Anger Is An Energy, the song) Given [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Seven
Back in March of this year, I authored a series of articles on GP based on my translations of the Feldpost letters of a German soldier, Hans Coutandin, to his girlfriend Evchen Möller. Part 6 [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Forty-Four
Watched again the Morecambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn. This is a comment on the video: ‘One of the greatest sketches of all time. Humour doesn’t really cross the pond but bravo to Andre [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Three
Monday Good morning, my friends, and welcome to another week of my musings. It was a bit grey when I went out this morning and trying to rain. Not very nice, and I hear we [more…]