Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Seven
It was 22:30 when he set off for home, it would be another three hours until he was in his bed. He sent a message to Sally saying how late he would be, she replied [more…]
Blog
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 3
Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, dear reader, as we mark both Peanut Butter Day [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 23rd January 2025 The Panel: Lucy Powell (Labour) David Davis (Conservative) Matthew Parris (Columnist) Dale Vince (Green Energy Entrepreneur) Venue: Stockport Lucy Powell was on QT only a few weeks ago. Despite a [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty
Jinnie had been busier at the weekend than she had anticipated. Knowing she was going to be away from Monday, and not really knowing for how long, she had tried to spend as much time [more…]
Economics
The Cantillon Effect…. Or how printing money entrenches wealth and power at the expense of everyone else……..
It’s one of those wonderful explanatory ideas that is obscure in that very few people know what it is but outlandishly obvious and essentially undeniable once you hear it. When you’re going to print money [more…]
Drinking
The Navy Tot
My daughter kindly presented me with a bottle of rum “to remind me of my time in the Navy”. It says quite clearly on the label that it is Pusser’s Rum and was the “original [more…]
Holiday
Yet Another Caribbean Christmas And New Year, Part One
Friday 20th December – Home to Barbados My alarm woke me at five, and I got up immediately—no lie-in, as I would probably go back to sleep, and that could be a disaster. Shave, shower, [more…]
Culture
(Not) A View From The Greenhouse; After The Goldrush. The End
I recently had the pleasure of visiting a hospital. Not an A&E, thankfully, but a famous hospital in the North West of England where I attended for a “pre-op” appointment. It’s an indictment, albeit a [more…]
America
The Inauguration
So what is this inauguration thingy they all keep on about. I suppose everyone knows it happens on January 20th but what exactly happens. I make a possibly futile attempt to explain something about it. [more…]