20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1957
Featured Song: – Buddy Holly – That’ll Be The Day This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they [more…]
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Arts
Punch The BBC Into The Digital Age – Cancel Your TV Licence
“If you watch live broadcast, you need a TV licence” Funny, that statement. Firstly, most people assume you need a TV licence if you have a TV. It’s understandable, from the perpetual onslaught by the [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Seven
Why had he said that, the flood of relief perhaps at this unexpected, nay miraculous, escape from his impetuous stupidity? The man’s wife, a barely repressed desire to tell him she was safe? “I’ll report [more…]
Animals
Building the Aquarium
In the last piece I got to the point of having bought a fishtank. Bloody massive thing, weighing in at about 150kg when empty (it took four blokes to lift it out of the house [more…]
Arts
Sunday Lunch
“Roast pork lunch at Sandown Park Hotel” by ultrakml is licensed under CC BY 2.0 There has been much activity on GP regarding recipes and food. I was thinking of this the other day after [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Six
Andy Bowson received the command and sprinted across the street, followed by the others. Visibility was returning, only the smoke billowing out from parts of the building giving them any cover from unseen gunmen that [more…]
Arts
I so fight, but not as one that beateth the air : 1 CORINTHIANS 9:26
Are you soft, lad? FIIIIGHT! This is a great English tradition, we get raucous and fight. It is part of our heritage, and I will not have it any other way. Not the ritualised fighting [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1956
Featured song: Elvis Presley with Hound Dog This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
European Union
Winnie The Pooh Reports On The EU
“I’ve been offered a new job”, confided Pooh to Piglet as they sat in the autumn sunshine in Hundred Acre Wood. “I wasn’t really looking for one, but a nice man from the BBC Department [more…]