Hobbies
“Power to the People!”
Its spring and a self-isolating, compulsory imprisoned, (young) man’s fancy turns to the garden and those DIY tasks. “I’m just going to the shed, my love, and I may be some time”. My shed was [more…]
Blog
Arts
Septic Eye – China Murders the World Pullout Special (free gift inside)
Readers fresh to GP may not be aware but I produced a stunning series some while ago, exclusively for the discerning readers of this blog (the others, you know who you are, mostly ignored it). [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd April 2020 Panel: Matt Hancock (Conservative) Yvette Cooper-Balls (Labour) Donna Kinnair (Royal College of Nursing) John Sentamu (Clergyman) Venue: Rugby This week’s Question Time panel is in London but the questioners are [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Rugby. On the panel are: Matt Hancock MP, health secretary, Conservative; Yvette Cooper MP, chair of the commons’ home affairs [more…]
20th Century
Through The Laurels, An RAF Story – Ch. 4
No.88 Squadron Goes To War In 1961 the Squadron went to war. General Kassim/Qassim the ruler of Iraq decided Kuwait was theirs, they may have been right, but Britain had a defence agreement with the [more…]
Arts
Where the river rages
This is NOT about the Wuhan virus, but it is about Wuhan. In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north. Wuhan was more or less the middle [more…]
20th Century
A Different Class of Murder, by Laura Thompson
We Brits love a mystery, and they don’t come much more mysterious than Lord Lucan. There are lots of books out there about the Lucan case – those of us who were around then will [more…]
Animals
The telephone rings
Scammer (for it is she): “Hello Sir, I’m calling about the accident you had recently which wasn’t your fault” Grimy Miner: “Yes”? S: “Can you tall me something about the accident”? GM: “Well lass, Ah [more…]
Health
Corona Virus and Reactions
There seems to be a number of different reactions to the situation we face. Most fall in to not believing there’s a virus, believing there is but that it’s just flu, to thinking we’re all [more…]