Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Thirteen
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 Part Six is here Part [more…]
Blog
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: The Clavinet
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous darling. This [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th November 2023 The Panel: Esther McVey (Conservative) Steve Reed (Labour) Layla Moran (LibDem) Andrew Neil (Journalist) Zoe Lyons (Comedian) Venue: Doncaster As a first appearance on QT in 1985 suggests, Andrew Neil [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Eight
Brian had done as he had said and had visited the beach bar at lunch and had eaten a cheeseburger and had a Banks beer while sitting at the bar on a stool. He had [more…]
Business
Collapse won’t re-set Society, Part Two
Part One is here. If bureaucracy is resilient, then trade is eternal. Far from being a recent development of modern technology, archeological evidence shows global trade predating the Iron Age. In the 3rd millennium B.C., [more…]
Hobbies
The Tale of my Old Dumper, Part Three
The next component that I needed was a so-called ‘’spool valve’’ with is basically a device with a hand operated lever that ports the hydraulic oil to either end of the hydraulic rams according to [more…]
20th Century
The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Six
The Usual Suspects String Pullers Motivational Greed When the USSR collapsed, the Septics’ “elite” believed an extended period of commerce and prosperity would follow the Cold War. However, a section of the Military Industrial Complex [more…]
20th Century
Report From Israel, 1957 – Part One
In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the first of his reports. – Jerry F You can learn a lot about a man in 24 hours. Particularly when [more…]
Business
War is the health of the State
For any reasonably well read adult, any amateur student of history or any responsible citizen for that matter, the idea that ”war is the health of the State” should be adjacent to a truism. After [more…]