Hobbies
Crossword No. 184
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 183 and a GP [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Six – Gerry & The Pacemakers
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 Nine
Jinnie woke early on Tuesday morning and when she moved she realised she had a slight headache, a disadvantage of working behind a bar and being bought a few drinks. Right she thought, it was [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 19th August 2021 Present: Alan Hope (Election candidate) Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative) Nigel Farage (Broadcaster) Venue: Pints of View This week’s first guest was Alan Hope. Who he? Alan ‘Howling Laud’ Hope leader of [more…]
Health
Please form an orderly queue….
I recently watched an original Star Trek episode called “A taste of Armageddon”. In the story, our heroes are sent to open diplomatic relations with another planet however the residents of the planet appear reluctant [more…]
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Seven
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…]
Arts
Sorrows of a Language Lover
The purpose of language is communication. Anything which muddies the language is the enemy of communication, and something which deliberately obscures the meaning of the words is the work of the Devil. I want to [more…]
Arts
Travels of the Unvaxxed – or how we had a Med summer holiday
You don’t need me to tell you that the last two years have been unprecedented. Our normal routines disrupted, jobs destroyed, way of life and freedoms removed all in the name of a bug. While [more…]
America
The Land Beyond the Khyber
My uncle was, from the end of the war until his death in 1973, Special Correspondent for the Manchester Evening News. I recently came across an article which the paper published in June 1971 in [more…]