Hobbies
Crossword No. 182
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a choice of GP authored book. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 181 and a GP [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Four – Cliff Richard
If I get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Seven
On the drive home from the barracks, Jinnie realised that she was hungry. “It must be all the nervous energy I’ve expended,” she thought. Up ahead was a PizzaExpress, one of the few fast-food chains [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 5th August 2021 Present: Malcolm Rifkin (Conservative) David Edgar (Rangers fan) Andrew Doyle (Commentator) Peter Rolton (Britishvolt) Venue: Andrew Neil with Colin Brazier On last week’s GB News Brazier and Muroki review, Tom [more…]
Biography
An Everyday Story of London Folk
My mother died on 14 February 2002. It still feels like only yesterday I lost her. Very suddenly without any previous illness. My mum was born in 1919 to a war torn and disabled father [more…]
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Five
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
Authoritarianism
We have all been had
The scam continues. I have posted this graph in the comments but seeing as no c— reads them I thought I might do an article but no c— reads them either. The graph shows the [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Romania – Part Five
Part Four of this Postcard from Romania revealed the joys of First-Class train travel through the ever-changing landscapes of this beautiful country, and a taste of Ursus, Romania’s most popular brew. We’d arrived at our [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Abergavenny
Following on from my Postcard from Monmouth we decided our next ‘big day out’ would be to Abergavenny. A place I’ve probably travelled through in the past but never visited. We crossed the Bristol Channel [more…]