Travel
Postcard From Keflavik
Art and the terminal Puffins who can see an enviably empty airport car park in the middle of nowhere with the skeleton of a nosedived B-52 embedded in the tarmac embarrassingly far from any runway, [more…]
Blog
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty
Monday Hi folks, well that was a bit of a wild night here in London, but it looks to have been a lot worse in the North and I have heard on the radio that [more…]
Going Postal
Happy 8th Birthday Going Postal
Lots going on at the moment. Events to organise, painting and decorating, which is an unbelievable faff – I shall be cleaning behind the fridge later. Filling a just rented storage unit before taking ninety [more…]
Arts
Smashing Pumpkins – Atum (Pt. 1) (2022)
A friend and I, in an effort to broaden our musical appreciation, agreed to listen to and review albums we would never normally listen to. Due to the effort this involved, the scope broadened after [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 1st February 2024 The Panel: Malcolm Offord (Conservative) Ian Murray (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Patrick Harvie (Greens) Fraser Nelson (The Spectator) Venue: Glasgow Kate Forbes (not her real name, Kate Elizabeth MacLennan), is [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Fifteen
Jinnie woke with a start and for a few seconds struggled to realise where she was. It was only when she saw the stewardess reading to the twins that she remembered where she was. Glancing [more…]
Cooking
Sous Vide for dummies
So what exactly is Sous Vide? If you have ever been served the most perfectly cooked steak, piece of chicken or fish in an upmarket restaurant, the chances are that it has been cooked sous [more…]
Eating
Caribbean Christmas 2023/24, Part Three
26th December – Boxing Day, La Romana, Dominican Republic I have only visited the Dominican Republic once before, when I stayed in an all-inclusive hotel in Puerto Plata many years ago and enjoyed it. Puerto [more…]
Capitalism
Sugar subsector reforms a Herculean task for Ruto
It is commendable that the Ruto regime is taking steps to revive the sugar sector but President Ruto will require strong goodwill to succeed where his predecessors have failed. January 11, 2024 In recent years, [more…]