Arts
A bird in a gilded cage
My lockdown is idyllic, I am one of the most fortunate people in England at the moment. We have a smallholding in the East Riding of Yorkshire, close to the river Derwent which is the border between [more…]
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Arts
Bottoms Up!
To these gloomy pandemic-filled days, I’d like to bring a little cheer. For months I have, of course, not ‘read the comments’ posted by this assortment of scoundrel and rapscallion Fraterculae. Without having viewed such [more…]
Authoritarianism
We have all become experts
Or have we? In the course of more than four weeks of self/family isolation we have all encountered mountains of speculation on the sources of Covid-19; how it spreads; estimates of its final tally of [more…]
Arts
Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe
Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Chapter 5 – Edge, This Sporting Life
War Crimes Chapter 5 The Regiment moved from Northern Ireland to Cyprus in 1991 and in the September, an extremely promising fly-half, Lance-Corporal Edge was selected to play for the 3rd Infantry Brigades rugby tour [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Six
Monday Well, it’s Monday again and I’d like to say I had a quite weekend, what with the Little Otter and the Mutt being at Chequers, but it’s pretty busy here now it’s 24 hour [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part One
I began to obsess about Mr Reginald Stein on the evening that a party guest, a Mr Hong Gildong, tried to read Mr Stein’s Turkish rug. My wife thought him ill. Our student maid, Rose, [more…]
Arts
Ooh, Aar, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening Part 4
Hello folks and welcome to part four of a guide to rough veg growing. It’s impossible to grow vegetables, even roughly, without a large number of containers, a decent space to work the magic, an [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 115
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. 114 Rick. Answers with next week’s crossword. [more…]