Hobbies
Crossword No. 187
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 186 and a GP [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Nine – The Hollies
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 Twelve
The day after the Election Jinnie slept late, in fact the whole house did. By the time she got downstairs and put the TV on the Reform Party had a 99 seat majority with two [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 9th September 2021 Present: Mike Read (DJ, Author and Chairman of the British Plaque Trust) Nigel Farage (Broadcaster) Venue: Pints of View As the schools in England return after their summer break, Andrew [more…]
20th Century
The Road to Karachi
To a newspaperman, I suppose, the real excitement of a special assignment is its glorious uncertainty. Like lightning, it never strikes the same place twice. A couple of summers ago I was sunbathing on the [more…]
20th Century
The French Are Revolting
On Monday, July 12th, Oberfuerher E. Minus MacRunt’s inveterate psychopathy morphed into full blown psychosis. He had his lackeys dig out the 1942 ordinance below, whited out the word “Jew”, replaced it with “Unvaksinated Vurmin”, [more…]
Authoritarianism
Plant Tending In A Pandemic; Untying The Gordian Knot
My reference to “untying the Gordian Knot” is somewhat ethereal. I’ve been giving some though to the complex threads that underpin the whole Covid “debate” whilst, at the same time, taking some note of which [more…]
Arts
Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part Two
Aleppo ‘No, Monsieur. I have only two other passengers – both English. A colonel from India, and a young English lady from Baghdad. Does Monsieur require anything?’ Monsieur demanded a small bottle of Perrier. Five [more…]
Animals
Cnuteneering, Part Twenty Seven
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…]