20th Century
The Desert War – July 1941
We reach July 80 years ago, it was quiet on the ground in North Africa but the navies were as busy as ever. There was no news from East Africa and precious little from Greece [more…]
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Arts
GP Events Summer 2021
Swiss Bob’s Birthday Bash Weekend of the 4th/5th September in Wiltshire, usual place familiar to many of you. I’ll send out more exact location details if your’e interested. Friday local pub for those wanting to [more…]
20th Century
Legion Of The Damned
“For every foreign-born soldier who dies, no German mother weeps” – Gottlob Berger The Waffen SS was the military wing of the Nazi party, although it is important to note that membership of the NSDAP [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 31
Jarvis met Ross Kemp in the foyer of the Assembly Rooms hotel in Norwich at 08:30 and he was invited to have breakfast with him. “It’s a ten-minute walk to the production company. Will you [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Five
Monday Morning people, another week’s reporting stretches before me and I am itching to get going. As I have told you before there is a skeleton staff working overnight in the offices but they don’t [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Sixty Seven
Mr Hong Gildong opened the double doors of the Lucky Saddle Craft Company’s underground Salon Prive gaming room to reveal a diminutive figure wrapped in a sodden pac-a-mac. A hood was pulled over the face [more…]
Health
Postmortem result of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated patient!
By:- Torsten Hansen, Ulf Titze and Ludwig Wilkens Foreword by Fred Brownbill. – The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole, and the realist sees the calories. Today’s blog is interesting to say [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 182
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 181 and a GP [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Four – Cliff Richard
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…]