Hobbies
Crossword No. 176
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 175 and a GP [more…]
Blog
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997 Featured Album: Van Morrison – The Healing Game This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that much [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter One
Jinnie parked her very nearly brand new British Motors Mini in a free slot outside the main building of Fitzwilliam college, close to a sign pointing her to reception. She was early, her designated time [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th June 2021 Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Jon Ashworth (Labour) Caroline Lucas (Green) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Victor Adebowale (NHS Confederation) Venue: London Question one. Is it not double standards to allow UEFA [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From Kanchanaburi
In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering, Part Twenty One
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]
Fiction
Behind The Mask, Part Two
Rachel DeSouza had already explained previously in this presentation to the interested but easily baffled senior citizens the intestacy rules. The divisions of the estate. Contested and uncontested and how to ensure someone’s personal post [more…]
Authoritarianism
Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth
Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast. There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, Part 17
PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life. Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]