Health
Introducing My Giant Spot
May I introduce you to my giant spot? It sits in the middle of my forehead and, upon closer inspection, seems to consist of a little stream, some flowers and a tree. Might it be [more…]
Blog
20th Century
TANKFEST 2026 & The Tank Museum, Pt 1
For Father’s Day this year, my brother suggested taking Dad to TANKFEST, the annual event held at The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset. Yes… yes, let’s do that! Having visited the museum a few years [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 24 Eric Joyce
Stickypedia’s first line says it all really. Eric Stuart Joyce b. 1960 is a British politician, former military officer and convicted child sex offender. The only thing missing is his party affiliation and of course [more…]
Hobbies
Postcard from Tromso
A few months ago, I took a trip way up north. To be specific, Tromsø towards the top of Norway. As we were travelling by sea and the weather had been quite inclement for the [more…]
Business
A Landscape of Lies
In 2007 I was the joint owner of a building services consultancy which undertook the mechanical and electrical design and production tender documentation relating to new construction and refurbishment projects. In addition, we also undertook [more…]
15th Century
A View From (A Harbour Some Miles Away From) The Greenhouse; On “Northerner-Ness”
When I was at school, many moons ago now, history was something that was taught to us without the strictures surrounding Colonialism, White Supremacy, Racism and the usual “phobia”. When I discovered that a replica [more…]
Authoritarianism
Why do the English (*) drink so much?
This is a question asked by all foreigners, who look on in horror as we binge-drink our way through the week, stumbling through the streets in various states of inebriation. As though I were talking [more…]
18th Century
The Railway’s sleepers: the Patron, the builder and the Polymath
A final journey into history to meet three men whose names never sadly made it into popular memory but who, like all the others, laid the foundations still used by the railways to this day. [more…]
Labour
A dastardly deception
Have we all misunderestimated the Knob o’t North. There we are ridiculing him for apparently having no plan when it is possible he does have a plan but is reluctant to let on what it [more…]