Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) Halfway over Putney Bridge the No 14 bus jolted to a halt. Behind it the rush-hour [more…]
The following events either take place before the point we left our friends Bob and Fred in the previous Rainy Island story, or perhaps they occur in a multiverse where infinite outcomes are possible. In [more…]
This article was inspired by two videos I watched on Saturday, the first one on Dan Astin-Gregory’s Pandemic Podcast (1), the second on Hugo Talks (2). The Pandemic Podcast is an interesting YouTube channel. It [more…]
Browsing secondhand bookshop shelves has been one of life’s delights, from the time I was barely in my teens and visiting the Croydon Bookshop in the Old Town (now long demolished to accommodate the flyover) [more…]
Claudio Grass (CG): A lot people still consider it safer to go with a huge, established corporation, thinking these solutions would be more reliable and robust, especially for business applications. What is your take on [more…]
One of my favourite tv moments was when we saw Alice Roberts approach an eminent palaeontologist on site. He dropped what he was doing. ‘Hello, Alice’ he said warmly, walking towards the camera, extending her [more…]
‘ Dear Jason It has been a while since I’ve written to you. Thankfully your authoritarian party leadership read the mood of seething anger in this nation and abandoned their series of 1984 inspired restrictions they [more…]
‘Daddy!’ It was almost simultaneous. I dashed down for the phone, uncoiled what I had once thought were absurdly long lengths of cable, carried the phone up to the turn in the stairs, flipped the [more…]
Nelson reminded us it takes two years to build a frigate and two hundred years to build a tradition. The odd, the quirky, the eccentric fuels that tradition and provides the cement that bonds fellow [more…]
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