America
Ashli Babbitt – Remember her name
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. [more…]
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Hobbies
Crossword No. 174
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 173 and a GP mug Glazinoa (Do [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1995
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1995 Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Twenty One
Joey’s Challenger 2 trundled down Potters Bar High Street followed by the other two tanks of his troop and the mixed bag of APCs and IFVs. Quite a lot of people were lining the pavements [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 10th June 2021 Panel: Gillian Keegan (Conservative) Lucy Powell (Labour) Kavita Oberoi (Businesswoman) Yanis Varoufakis (Economist & politician) Frank Luntz (Pollster) Venue: London & Greece Now that his teeth are better, your reviewer [more…]
Hobbies
The Clay is the Thing, Part Four
In the first three parts we looked at what it takes to get into clay shooting, how to progress and where it may lead. I touched a little in each article on what goes on [more…]
Arts
Film Review: The Third Man
The Third Man is a wonderfully evocative, innovative, and fascinating film, directed by Carol Reed with the screenplay by Graham Greene, set in the dystopian ruins and chaos of immediate post-WW2 Vienna, which at that [more…]
Arts
The Confession of Saint Gareth of Southgate
In a difficult week that included the England team being booed for taking the knee, Tuesday the 8th of June saw England manager Gareth Southgate’s Letter to England published on The Players’ Tribune website. Players’ [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Romania – Part Four
Part Three of the Postcard from Romania covered our visits to the indoor and outdoor sections of the terrific Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei), a jaunt to Satu Mare on the wild [more…]