Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Thirteen
It would take almost five hours to drive into London, he decided to park at Hillingdon and take the tube the rest of the way. Hopefully he would be there whilst Jane Goodley was still [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – When World’s Collide
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. I’ve been far [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book 8 – Chapter One
Dame Jinnie De Luca strolled across the departure hall at Heathrow Terminal 5, looking for the check-in desk for her BA flight to Montreal. She was flying to Ottawa to attend her first board meeting [more…]
20th Century
Lessons from Churchill
Many of you may well be familiar with this outstanding biography of Winston Spencer Churchill first published in 2018. Over 982 pages, and splendidly subtitled “Walking with Destiny”, the eminent historian Andrew Roberts manages to [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau” Part Two
In Part 1, I recounted what Hans Coutandin had written to his girlfriend Eva Möller in his letters of early 1941 as he transitioned from being an “Arbeitsmann” in the “RAD-Abteilung 3/250” to be in [more…]
Book Review
Book review: Values, Voice and Virtue: the new British politics, by Matt Goodwin
Matthew James Goodwin is a political commentator and former academic, most recently Professor of Politics at the University of Kent which he left in the summer of 2024. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he reached [more…]
Health
A Life Changing Event
On Tuesday 11th February at 08:10, I had a heart attack. The alarm had gone off at 07:30, downstairs, I made tea for myself and Mrs. 10210, bringing it back upstairs. We sat in bed [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings, Part Nineteen
Love this (unread) comment by RICK: ‘The health benefit is that after a sweaty training session I feel CLEAN. If that’s a drain on the resources that are insufficient because of a growing population of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy
Monday Good morning, people. Wow, the sun is out this morning for a change, but it’s still bloody cold. I was not outside for very long, and I don’t intend to be outside much more [more…]