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…]
Blog
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…]
Diary
Signs and Pottering; Rough Gardening During A Pandemic
For what seems like weeks now I’ve been describing, in laconic detail, just how tough it is keeping a 600 (or so) square foot greenhouse in an adequate enough state of repair to do its [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Four
“To cut a long story short, Squadron Leader, we’re missing a chap. Looked him up in the London Gazette, to no avail. I could ask at the office, I’m at the Singapore Consultancy you know. [more…]
20th Century
Happy Birthday, Ruby!
Above photo: My ruby laser with a ‘mirror alignment laser’ just off to the right hand side of the photo. A small amount of smoke in the air makes the alignment laser-beam visible. In the [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 118
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. 117 Tom Pudding. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Animals
Fromage de Tete
Recipe: 1 pig’s head 2 pig’s trotters 3 star anise 1 large onion 5 bay leaves 2tsps red wine vinegar Tarragon (ideally fresh) 6 sage leaves As the lockdown progresses and the days merge in [more…]