The Puffin is a well-travelled bird gracing a wide variety of habitats. Rural France, various parts of Spain, the New World, the Debatable Lands, territories where the leopard runs free, Norn Iron, the Philippine Islands, [more…]
Sit yourselves down, Puffins, pour yourself a large one, & harken to the sorry tale of a chorus girl, the son of a US railroad robber baron, and the murdered architect Stanford White, in a [more…]
There have been instances of MPs getting a bit punchy after over indulging in the in-house bars in the House of Shame. This has largely been fisticuffs between MPs themselves. However, in what may be [more…]
40 or 50 years ago the SCG was probably the best place in the world to watch cricket. Sure Lord’s was more dignified and places like the MCG and Eden Gardens were bigger but this [more…]
Anyone who’s ever taken a moment to watch animals in the wild – birds in particular, can’t fail to have noticed they are constantly on the lookout for danger and predators, and are always primed [more…]
When a bank flags a transaction as suspicious, it is not usually because someone has confessed to a crime. It is because the numbers do not make sense. A property sells for three times its [more…]
Born in the same village as George Stephenson, 5 years earlier. The man who saved the Stockton and Darlington when the engines kept breaking down. The man who built Russia’s first locomotive… and then vanished [more…]
And there you all were thinking this was going to be about vampires, sorry to disappoint but it’s far more down to earth. ‘Er indoors had an aunt who never stopped talking. I always thought [more…]
Part One can be read here: The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 5/6: The Wolf Man of Mayfair. Part 1 of 2 It was fortunate for us that George lived only a few minutes’ brisk trot [more…]
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