Hobbies
Crossword No. 159
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary, War Crimes or The Unseen Path. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner [more…]
Blog
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1980
Featured Album: Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Seven
Before the war, Hitler had commissioned Albert Speer to redesign Berlin into the “Capital of the World”, a city greater than London, Paris or Rome that he wanted to call Germania. When the war started [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th February 2021 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Tony Danker (Confederation of British Industry) Jeremy King (Restauranter) Joanne Grady (University and College Union) Venue: London The first question concerned contradictions within [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming. On the panel are: Grant Shapps MP, secretary of state for transport, Conservative; Anneliese Dodds MP, shadow chancellor of the exchequer, [more…]
Christianity
Korea, Suwon, Part 3
Attending a Korean Mega-Service Towards the end of my stay in South Korea in 2017, I attended one of the mega-services Korean churches specialise in. It was a meeting of the Baptist Church, which, the [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – February 1941
The second month in 1941 was not up to the joys of January for the Allies. The Germans started arriving in North Africa and the push into Libya did not go much further. There was [more…]
Cooking
An introduction to Japanese knives
I’ve browsed this site for a couple of years, but have contributed very little other than stupid comments. Figured it was time I contributed a bit more. Firstly… My name is Bertram and I have [more…]
America
Champion in a Man’s World
Marion Hollins was born in 1892 into a world and at a time when “women knew their place”. This, however, was a notion she soundly rejected throughout her tradition shattering life & career. She arrived [more…]