Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Four
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here This time: I make a friend and a ram raid I am settling [more…]
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Arts
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st September 2023 The Panel: Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative) Thangam Debbonaire (Labour) Matthew Syed (Journalist and Author) Ella Whelan (Journalist and Author) Venue: Ipswich In the guff accompanying this week’s Question Time, the BBC [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Thirty
Paolo and Jinnie chatted about the evening as, with the cruise control set to 70, they raced around an empty M25. They both agreed it had been a fabulous evening and Jinnie asked Lucia what [more…]
Arts
A View From The Farmhouse, Part Two
Tons of soil (h/t Dr Spooner) The farm was bought by my English friend for an amount about the same as the cost of a reasonable terraced house in an English Northern town. In all, [more…]
Arts
Choose your super power wisely
Not for the first time, the pub conversation of our small group turned to the question of which super power would be the best one to have. It was a sunny summer’s Friday evening and, [more…]
21st Century
Colonialist Le Grand Fromage, Part Two
Syria Saudi Arabia prepared its forces to launch against Damascus, while compliant UK Lame Stream prepared the media ground. Coordination of forces had been prepared in Jordan during Eager Lion 2012, UN the statutory septic [more…]
16th Century
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcala de Henares on the 29th September 1547, the second son of Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas. His father led a precarious and unsettled life as an [more…]
20th Century
The ’59 Trail, Part One
In May 1959 The Birmingham Mail introduced my uncle’s latest article as follows: Where will you find the last pioneers in this age when frontiers are shrinking every day? In Canada’s Far North – the [more…]