Arts
Bash 2024 Update
Bash in two two weeks. Full details on the forum here: Bash 2024 I’ll send out an email in the next couple of days re the Sunday lunch but feel free to email me your [more…]
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Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Polari
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends. Tonight, it’s bona to vada your dolly old eeks, as this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly presents yet another march of the muscle Marys up [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 13th June 2024 The Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Stephen Nolan (Political Strategist) Iain Anderson (Businessman and Adviser) Venue: Edinburgh Tonight’s politicians are on Question Time too often. [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Thirty-Four
Jinnie just couldn’t believe how well things were going. Brian had made agreements to purchase the empty shop and the convenience store. He had an agreement with the cafe that if they helped them relocate [more…]
America
RMS Queen Mary 2
My US literary agent asked me to cross the pond to boost the flagging sales of my book Magic of Banking, but I seem to have developed a flying phobia of late, as I get [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mysteries, Part Five
The Royal Tank Museum In Part 4, I described the vehicles that belonged to the British and Arab “Special Forces” of WW1 and WW2 that are displayed in The Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan. [more…]
21st Century
Persecution Against Scott Ritter Shows US Not Democracy Anymore
By Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. The persecution of political dissidents in the US is becoming commonplace. People who oppose Washington’s aggressive foreign [more…]
Diary
A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; It’s The Weather, Stupid!
I’m “penning” this missive a little earlier that I normally would, as I have a busy weekend coming up. Accordingly, it won’t be as up to date as I’d normally like, but I’m sure my [more…]
20th Century
Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part One
In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Tactical Force [more…]