Hobbies
Crossword No. 152
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of Blown Periphery’s ‘War Crimes for the Political Elite’. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s [more…]
Blog
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1973
Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon 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 [more…]
Animals
A Dog’s Life
He was born in the maze of kennels and lean-tos in the back garden of an unassuming end terrace on the outskirts of Aldershot. The house was owned and inhabited by a strange and mysterious [more…]
Cooking
It’s a Bird………..It’s a plane……… No, It’s a Scotch Egg
Does it really take a planned demic to bring a much loved and often forgotten item out from the dark shadows of a corner shop chill cabinet and put in the spotlight front & centre [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th January 2021 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Annaliese Dodds (Labour) Mark Walport (SAGE Scientist) Humphrey Cobbold (CEO of Pure Gym) Rachel Clarke (Doctor and Author) Venue: London Unhelpfully, Wednesday evening was punctuated by [more…]
Hobbies
Shunting Along – part 7
The run up to Christmas involved a few days helping out at Tanfield Railway – long hours and endless sanitising Santa’s Grotto meant not a great deal of work was done on the layout. Once [more…]
Authoritarianism
“It’s for your own safety”
Saddam Hussain Pol Pot Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Boris Johnson The more pedantic sections of our grand old society will point out that 2020 was not the start of a new decade, rather, the end [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 5
Unless one is rich enough to have a yacht custom-built to one’s own specification, which I certainly was not, one has to choose a “Production” model in much the same way most people buy motor [more…]
Book Review
Book review: Corona False Alarm?
“Corona False Alarm? Facts & Figures”, Dr Karina Reiss & Dr Sucharit Bhakdi. This very timely work was first published in German at the end of June 2020. The English translation, published in September of [more…]