20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Two
The above photograph was taken on March 25th 1936. How can we be so certain? The marquee to the left can be seen at the beginning of a video clip below, the occasion being the [more…]
Blog
Health
UK Government Report: Children up to 52 times more likely to die following a COVID shot
Foreword by Fred Brownbill. I am maybe alone here but I think that parents that are lining up to give their 5+ year old kids this shot, supposedly to protect them against the China Virus, [more…]
Hobbies
Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 207
SOD-YOU-KO 207 Word Search 207 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 206 and [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty One – Jim Reeves
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-One – Jim Reeves 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 Six
Big Willie hugged Jinnie and kissed her on the top of her head and said, “Welcome back to Berlin.” Her hold-all disappeared into his huge hand and Jinnie whispered to him to call her ‘Isabelle’. [more…]
Human Interest
Eulogy for my Son, Sam 28:08:80 – 29:12:21
To lose a loved one at any time in life turns your whole world upside down. To lose a child turns everything back to front. I always imagined it would be me up there and [more…]
19th Century
A Court for King Cholera
Introduction In 1967, as part of my Public Health Inspectors’ Education Board course, I remember attending a lecture given by Dr Moore, the then Medical Officer of Health for the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, [more…]
Fiction
The Girlies’ Cottage
In the Devon village closest to the Andrei Sakharov Dissidents’ Campsite lived two young dissidents affectionately known to everyone as the Girlies. Although they looked like two peas in a pod, the Girlies were not [more…]
Engineering
Unnecessary Engineering
Project 1: Scope Dials Welcome all and please gather round so I can waste a few minutes of your precious time on describing something that didn’t really need doing and no doubt would interest few. [more…]