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Postcard from the Keukenhof
The best time to visit the Keukenhof flower gardens is usually in late April/early May. So, this little essay will be published too late in the current season for it to inspire you to arrange [more…]
Arts
PMQs with Going Postal
Agenda Prime Minister’s Question Time Featured image Robert Pittman – Licence CC BY-ND 2.0
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Sixty-Two
Ch 62 – The Castle of the Eagles. Traffic was light. Vanessa guided the Mercedes, with considerable skill, around the heavy goods vehicles, and the few other private cars on the road. Timing her overtaking [more…]
Health
Another stalkers charter
They say life imitates art. Personally, while I believe there is a powerful symbiotic relationship between the two, like the chicken and the egg, once the cycle has begun, it is virtually impossible to visualise [more…]
Arts
A Sub Par Sub Editor
In recent times, SwissBob (PBUH) has prevailed on me to do some of the laying up of articles from you fine puffins. Yea verily his guidance is gospel and must be followed. No doubt I [more…]
Business
What’s happened to self-reliance and Resilience? They were never needed more
The title of Kristian Niemitz’s latest book, “Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”“Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies”, is easily explained by the current crisis. We are experiencing a re-emergence of a giveaway [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Chapter 8 – Love and Death in the Balkans
War Crimes Chapter 8 The life could have been idyllic except for Jozica Marić and her irritating ability to get under Edge’s skin. Whenever she was around, cropping up at the other dig sites or [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Nine
Monday Morning Readers, another bright and sunny morning here in Westminster, so I’ll be on my favourite windowsill later. I can sleep there with an eye open to observe the comings and goings at No [more…]