Hobbies
Crossword No. 136
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 Last week’s winner. 135 – AT. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Blog
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1997
A History of Pop Music – 1997 This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
20th Century
The Wisdom of Charlotte: For the Love of Vinyl
I have recently finished reading David Hepworth’s “A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives”. It was a very fascinating read as to how the long playing record influenced our lives as teenagers and [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th September 2020 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) Sunetra Gupta (Epidemiologist) John Caudwell (Businessman) Nicci Gerrard (Author) Venue: Oldham Fiona Bruce beamed excitedly as she introduced the first Question Time of [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of establishment bullshit, left-wing screeching and me, me, me. On the panel are: business and industry minister Nadhim Zahawi, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, [more…]
America
A Walk Around Lee Circle
In his seminal commencement address to the University of Texas’s excited class of 2014, US Navy SEAL and four-star Admiral William H McRaven reminded his audience that, if they wanted to change the world for [more…]
16th Century
The Troubled History of the Potato
The potato is a native of the high Andes, a low-growing plant (Solanum tuberosum) with pretty purple flowers and round black fruits. To survive in its harsh environment it has evolved the habit of growing [more…]
Arts
Painting with acrylics
Despite coming from an artistic family – my parents met at art school, I first became interested in painting when Mrs W painted this to cover up some bad plastering in our new kitchen. Apparently, [more…]
Authoritarianism
SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 8
Jkvenjd wktuhnb, dfuidsoe refcvdsff hbcer uyereu dfohfd iuhjcdjfsj. No, the previous sentence is not a misprint, it is a condensed and eloquent summary of government practice regarding the current SARS-CoV-2 crisis, quite possibly in Welsh. [more…]