Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Eighteen
Jinnie had a sense of déjà vu as she stood in Terminal Three arrivals by the exit from the customs hall waiting for Monica to appear, it was not so long ago that she had [more…]
Blog
Going Postal
Bash 2025 Report
The site has changed under the new owner. Perhaps not quite as bucolic but it’s good to see the place busy and hopefully making money because the alternative would likely be another housing estate. Things [more…]
19th Century
Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper
Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]
Business
No Need to Control Resources; Access Is Sufficient
For a long time political pundits have wished that the US government was run “more like a business”; thus, believing that a businessman would be preferable to a politician. A businessman’s goal is to make [more…]
Cycling
West Country Rides, Four
It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]
Economics
Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Two
Following on from detailing some of the ways Landlords will be affected by the bill there has been a great furore centred on “Section 21 is no fault eviction” in fact no one wants to [more…]
Business
How To Deliver a Parcel, Part 2
“Ok, how do you actually deliver 300 parcels at Christmas, Matt? You spouted out a lot of words and made me wait for part 2, but how do you actually do it?” Well, just before [more…]
Politics
Blackfriars
As some of you will know but for those who don’t, Blackfriar is Cockney rhyming slag for liar. There is often an element of truth in such slang, maybe the order of Blackfriars (aka the [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Three
Interesting reading Never up to the job’s article on digitising family ‘photos, recordings and other memories. A great deal of aechive material to work with. I am at the opposite end of the spectrum as [more…]