Animals
Meet Phoenix, the Egyptian Duprasi
Reaching the ripe old age of 61, being a bit of a hermit and having semi retired, I decided to act upon my love of small animals and adopt a hamster. Having looked after hamsters [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
America
Book Review: Kick by Paula Byrne
The subtitle of this book is ‘the true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s forgotten sister, and the heir to Chatsworth’, although personally I think the title ‘forgotten sister’ might be more accurately applied to JFK’s [more…]
Arts
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Sixty-Four
Lady Vanessa stepped through the metal detector. Lord Bixby followed and passed freely through the metal detector. The security guard signalled for me to go through next. As expected, as I stepped forward the bleep [more…]
Authoritarianism
COVID-19 – Exposing the Rot
When the British voted to leave the EU in 2016, what followed after that showed how rotten much of the political and media establishment truly is. We thought we had seen it all after the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Forty Two
Monday Good morning merry readers, Wilf is still waking me up early and yesterday I decided I might as well to go on my morning patrol before breakfast as I couldn’t get back to sleep. [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 120
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 Last week’s winner. 119 Audrey’s daughter. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Cooking
Winnie the Pooh and the Virus of Doom, Part 2
“I couldn’t help noticing,” said Piglet to Pooh, “When idly perusing the contents of your larder that it seems to be entirely full of cauliflowers. I didn’t have you down as a vegan, but I [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Glasgow. On the panel are: Shadow secretary of state for Scotland Ian Murray, deputy first minister and education secretary for [more…]