Fiction
Wildfowling: The Spirit of the Marsh
Evening flight had been a total loss and the bad weather looked to be closing in fast. Jay the Spaniel cut a piteous figure, highlighted as he was in the feeble light from a head [more…]
Blog
Animals
Larry’s Diary, One Hundred and Seventeen
Monday These Monday mornings seem to come around quicker and quicker for your intrepid cat reporter. One good thing about the family being back in residence is that the Little Otter has got her way [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Seven
In part four of Mystery Album, I speculated that the above photograph (taken by our mystery family aboard the wherry Palace) was of a Norfolk Broads maltings. Judging by the order of the photos, it [more…]
America
Why the Push Is on to Make Pandemic Life ‘Permanent’
Today’s blog is incredible and a MUST READ! The author, Tom Mullen, hits it out the park. COVID-19 is new. But the reaction to the crisis is starting to look familiar. One year after Americans [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 194
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a book to the value of £20. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 193 and a [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Sixteen – 10CC
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Sixteen – 10cc 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 [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Nineteen
Jinnie parked on the off-street parking in front of her house. She had told the flatmates, well technically now her housemates, that she had rented a four-bedroom furnished house on their behalf. Over the summer [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 28th October 2021 The Panel: Simon Clarke (Conservative) Lucy Frazer (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Sir Howard Davies (NatWest) Dr Miatta Fahnbulleh (New Economics Foundation) Jenny Campbell (Businesswoman) Venue: Stockport Your humble author has [more…]
Biography
A Leicestershire Lad
Watching formal schooling, community spirit and childhood and family life in general being relentlessly trashed in recent years has made me think more and more about my growing-up years in a small Leicestershire village between [more…]