Literature
Miss Pronter’s Prescient Verses
My Dear Friend, Miss. Pronter, has forgiven, but hardly forgotten, my betise in allowing some of her verses to be put forward here, under a mangled version of her name (‘You claim to be a [more…]
Blog
Arts
The Swaling, Part Seventy
As soon as Mr Hong Gildong allowed the doors to be opened, two hours after auctioneer Mr Tan had departed, there was a stampede along the dark and expensively carpeted secret underground passage that connected [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 185
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 184 and a GP [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Seven – Roy Orbison
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Seven – Roy Orbison If I get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Ten
It was around about 4 o’clock on Friday afternoon when Jinnie parked her Mini next to her father’s ageing Audi 80 in the bay cut into the green opposite her family home. For a few [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 26th August 2021 Panel: James Cleverly (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Rory Stewart (Former diplomat and author) Nelufar Hedayat (Broadcaster) Mehdi Hasan (Broadcaster) Venue: London Puffins will be relieved to hear that, as the [more…]
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Eight
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…]
Computing
Anonymising Data
The inspiration for this article was the report that so many people have opted out rHNS’s data sharing scam that they have had to postpone it. The associated throwaway comment that the data would only [more…]
Health
New Adventures in Low-Carb
Introduction – the real pandemic Many countries are experiencing a health crisis that will cause hundreds of millions of people to die earlier than they should. This crisis is called insulin resistance. In the US, [more…]