Biography
Sailing my life away, part 19
RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 17 There were some great comments on Part 17 so thanks to every-one for that. There are two in particular and one question I’d like to pick out and reproduce. I [more…]
Blog
Arts
Postcard from Monmouth
With the prospect of a holiday (foreign or UK) looking increasingly unlikely Mrs Reggie and I decided we would try and fit in a number of day trips to break the tedium of everyday life. [more…]
Arts
A Hard Bunch Of Old Folkers
This a true story, and for once I can be unusually precise as to the date: towards the end of July in 1983. I was living in North Yorkshire at the time, and me and [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 28
Jarvis pondered about where he was going to live, to hide, to escape. The Midlands? He thought of his mother who didn’t even know who he was and a brother who cared less. The Southwest [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Two
Monday Morning all, it’s quite a pleasant morning, hope I can get some window sill time in this afternoon. Bozzie is doing another of his press conferences from No.10 at five this evening and as [more…]
Arts
Scorn Not The Sonnet
Scorn not the Sonnet Thus wrote Wordsworth, and it’s probably true that sonnets are second only to limericks in the poetry popularity stakes. Both forms have the advantage of being short and memorable. But where [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Sixty Four
“Hostage swap.” “Hostage swap?” I repeated. “Yes, hostage swap. You’re going to be late,” said the voice at the other end of our Dumfries Street townhouse street gate intercom. I shouted to my Chinese cousin, [more…]
20th Century
Covid Feds at your door? Read on!
When I heard and read that out of pure caring and love of the American people, yes, even us Trumpites, Biden had authorized federal staff to go door to door to persuade you to have [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 179
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 178 and a GP [more…]