Human Interest
Doing the “Death Clean”
The “Death Clean” was coined by a Swedish woman who, sensibly, decided that, as death is a reality for us all, began it with her own house. I’m doing it with mine. The only certainties [more…]
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Hobbies
Crossword No. 102
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP 4th anniversary mug!. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 101 – Rick. Answers with [more…]
Arts
Cruising at Christmas (and the New Year) – Part 2
Thursday – St Vincent and the Grenadines (Boxing Day) I woke just as we were docking, no mad rush to get moving as I was on an afternoon trip. However I was peckish so I [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 23rd January 2020 Panel: Theresa Villiers (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Trevor Phillips (Broadcaster) Mike Barton (Former Chief Constable) Sarah Baxter (Sunday Times) Venue: Stoke Newington Dear reader, had this week’s Question Time been [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Stoke Newington. On the panel are: Theresa Villiers MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Emily [more…]
Health
It started with a piss – Part two
First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]
20th Century
Mathematics
You spin me right round baby…
Musings on objects and motion, part one, the basics Recently a comment, that nobody read, was posted by one of our more trollish contributors trying to toll people about the world not be round or [more…]
20th Century
Communist Flip Flops
The aspiration for this article is to enlighten some Puffins about the several about-turns the Communists were forced into before, during and after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enemies, [more…]