Hobbies
Crossword No. 217
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 216 and a GP mug In like [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-One – Chuck Berry
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-One – Chuck Berry If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Seventeen
As the university was on its Christmas break, Penny joined the rest of the human members of the household in travelling to London by the train every day. She was attached to the documents group [more…]
20th Century
The Woman Reporter, Part Two
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) One august day in 1947 a young girl with long legs and a mop of unruly [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From Latina
If one, parent’s night, your daughter’s Italian teacher tells you Latina is the ugliest city in Italy and adds in a whisper, “And then there’s Mousillini”, don’t agree with her until you’ve visited. Situated on [more…]
Arts
Three Men on a Bike, Part Three
Having recovered from the ravages of what we thought was pilchard food poisoning but was more likely some dodgy Camembert, and rested sufficiently at the Rouen youth hostel we ventured forth on Day 5 and [more…]
Health
DIY Therapy
But where do you go to my lovely When you’re alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do Peter Sarstedt – 1969. [more…]
Fiction
Pale Hands 2
5. I was up pretty early, used the outdoor privy and the scullery sink so as not to disturb the sleeper, went off to Church, collected the paper on the way back, spoke as jauntily [more…]
Arts
The Music Business
A few nights ago a post (by Channel Zero) describing how the music business was blindsided and completely shaken up by the arrival of house music in the mid 1980s got me thinking over how [more…]