20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Kent
Canterbury In our family album, my father and grandparents visited Kent and Sussex for a holiday in 1948. This was a time of great change and transformation in those counties as they, and the rest [more…]
Blog
Biography
Trade Plating Around England, Part Nine
This time, Grandad rights and the ultimate sin Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one is here Part two [more…]
20th Century
G5E2 – Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Early Days
Welcome pop pickers. This week is back to Rock ‘n’ Roll, the early days. This is the sort of music that makes you want to tap your feet, dance, and singalong. Thank you to Wiki, [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 8th June 2023 The Panel: Lee Rowley (Conservative) Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) Ayesha Hazarika (Broadcaster) Lord Sumption (Former Supreme Court judge) Venue: King’s Lynn Jonathan Sumption, not his real name (Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Five, Chapter Fifteen
The party in Mendoza kept up the pretence of being tourists, going out in the car every day. They decided to avoid the missile site by day and only keep an eye on it by [more…]
Economics
How Can We Escape?
I spent over forty years in the City of London very largely specializing in pension & trust fund management. The latter decade in tax effective investment. We live in a kleptocracy which seems to have [more…]
18th Century
A Puffin Paradise
A Refuge from Modern England Several things have triggered this article; conversations I have had with various Puffins face to face at meetings and get-togethers, something that Polar Opposite posted in one of the comments, [more…]
20th Century
African Regime Gone Bad, Zaire Invasion
If “keep us safe” was the RPF’s public driving mantra, it was easier said than done. Having taken a generation for Uganda refugee camps to produce a rebel force capable of threatening Rwanda’s national security, [more…]
18th Century
A View (120 Miles Or So) From The Greenhouse; Whitby(ish) A Postcard
First things first, as the saying goes. Starting bottom left, the vine flourishes and has benefitted, in no small measure, from a good old fashioned “clip out”, more of which next time. Before we get [more…]