Cooking
Let’s Get Breakfast Done
A comfy “Full English” (*), ideal for those rare days at home, when you’ve time on your hands……… Call it what you will, cappuccino of shirred eggs, total breakfast in a cup, the reality is [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Economics
“Settled science”: The rallying cry back to the dark ages
Increasingly over the past decade, but infinitely more so over the last year, we’ve been hearing politicians, mainstream media and all kinds of experts urging, and often sternly demanding, citizens, voters and taxpayers to “follow [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Eighty
Monday Another working week and another grey day, but at least January is over and we are creeping nearer to spring and warmer weather. Bozzie was chatting away on his mobile phone over his boiled [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 157
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary, or War Crimes. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winners of a GP [more…]
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Five
Ever since last week’s “Whist Night” Jinnie had been thinking over what she had heard. How could it be true that the Germans had exterminated all those people and nobody in England talked about it? [more…]
Uncategorized
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Scotland. On the panel are: Oliver Dowden MP, secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative; Thangam Debbonaire [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
I’m not someone who regularly reads books – I tend to buy several at a time with a view to reading them whilst on holiday (remember those?) or over the Christmas period, which is exactly [more…]
Arts
A Perfect Weekend
It started with a gig Back in July 2017, my son’s band (pop punk – you wouldn’t like them!) were invited to play at the Workington Touch Down Festival. As the money was good, they [more…]
Biography
Sailing around the world
We accidentally sailed around the world, but by good luck we survived the Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. There is currently obsessive talk of death, but on that morning a ¼ of a million people [more…]