20th Century
Scout Camp at …?
Holland, 1949 We shall interrupt my grandparents’ 1947 West Country road trip (to which I shall return) to dip into my father’s 1949 Scout trip to Holland. En route the troop passed a stricken vessel [more…]
Blog
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Six
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here Part Four is here Part Five is here This Time: Rats, Christmas decorations [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Elton John
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly tribute to the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be examining [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 5th October 2023 The Panel: Richard Holden (Conservative) Shabana Mahmood (Labour) Jon Ashworth (Labour) Emma Dabiri (Writer and Academic) Richard Walker (Iceland supermarkets) Tony Parsons (Author and Journalist) Venue: Wolverhampton As the programme [more…]
Literature
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Thirty-Two
It was a bright sunny Saturday morning and Jinnie’s first thought on waking was wondering if Lucia felt as nervous as she had been on her wedding day. Jinnie’s mind went back to the mad [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei, Led us too this perfect day. Marx, Wood, Wei and Christ, All but Wei were sacrificed. Wood, Wei, Christ and Marx, Gave us lovely schools and parks. Wei, Christ, Marx [more…]
Fiction
The Burglary
George parked his grey van fifty yards from Miss Rosie’s cottage, turned the engine off and waited. He had been watching the tiny house for three weeks now; he knew the old lady went out [more…]
Authoritarianism
The slow, stealthy but steady spread of absolutism
The struggle and rivalry between the “West and the rest” might be grabbing news headlines due to the Ukraine war these days, but in truth, it is anything but newsworthy. This antagonism, this battle for geopolitical, [more…]
20th Century
A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise
A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise Well, Stone the crows! A sunny Saturday in September saw a bit of a surprise. Although we’d noticed the colourful banner advertising the event often enough as we wandered hither [more…]