Engineering
Shunting Cobbles
With spring just around the corner, allegedly, this winter project should be coming to a close, but so far there is little sign of that. The return of the eldest son from Uni meant decamping [more…]
Blog
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty Nine
Chief Superintendent Dager had just finished briefing Bowson and two of his other subordinates on the outcome of the Home Secretary’s steering group when someone appeared at his cubicle door; Bowson saw his face fall [more…]
Arts
Family, Community, Identity
My Mum was born on 7th May 1945. My Nan (quite the socialite) used to complain that on the day of the biggest party ever she was stuck in a hospital with a new born [more…]
Arts
Postcard from the Isle of Man
As some of you may have noticed, I am a long-time resident of the evil tax dodging empire otherwise known as the Isle of Man. Apart from the beer guzzling, rubber burning hedonistic frenzy of [more…]
Arts
In Praise of The Uptick
According to the dictionaries, the word “uptick” means “a small increase or slight upward trend.” And it is an americanism. I could not find a definition in an online context, i.e. “uptick a comment”. That [more…]
20th Century
The Baby Boeing
I think most of us here don’t get terribly excited at the thought of the Boeing 737. It’s quite mundane, unremarkable, pedestrian even. I suspect more than a few of us here have been herded [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 2.5
ACT 2 SCENE 5 A Road near Delirium. Enter TILDA, VULPECULA, ETTY, JESSICA and HUMPHREY aboard the Haywain, with PATRICK half concealed in the Hay.
Christianity
Easter Day
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast; Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty Eight
Bowson along with George Edward discharged themselves from the hospital mid-morning. Some of the medical staff were quite relieved to see Andy go, but not George who had been much more co-operative and was seemingly [more…]