Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Ten
Monday Good morning, my friends. It’s a bit damp and grey this morning, so I was up and down the garden very quickly before my breakfast, as I expected it to rain at any moment. [more…]
Blog
Travel
Christmas Postcard From Manchester
Thank you for all your contributions below the line on last week’s article about my dreadful spelling. Turns out I don’t have some bizarre neurological condition after all; rather, I’m just like the rest of [more…]
Fiction
Downfall, Chapter Twenty
Sally sat at the back of the lecture theatre as Dave gave his Friday morning talk, she had asked him while they ate breakfast what he would be talking about. “I don’t know, I will [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Festive Fridays – The Christmas Single
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, and please be welcome to yet another of our regular Babycham fuelled snuffles around the sweaty intergluteal cleft of popular culture. Tonight, after our previous [more…]
Education
The Party’s Over, It’s Time to Call It a Day
When I handed in my resignation/retirement letter to the Head Teacher, Mrs Easthope, she agreed to move the usual end of term assembly from the morning to the afternoon. I wanted to give this speech, [more…]
Arts
The Question Time That Got Away
There’s always one that gets away. A pretty girl who becomes no more than a ship crossed in the night, a ball kicked wide of an open goal, even an edition of Question Time omitted [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Ten
As they approached Anderson’s Willie said, “Mummy is that crowd outside the place we are going to.” “I think so,” answered Jinnie. Thinking quickly, she said, “Will you two take hands with Izzy and George [more…]
America
The Donald has extravagant Plans
With all the “Orange Man Bad” abuse aimed at Donald Trump it is easy to overlook what his plans are. The mental pygmies on the left, that includes you Jobby, Toilets et al, are so [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – the intro
A series on Labour’s bad boys has been suggested. At first sight it seemed akin to climbing Everest, there are just so many but on reflection, as one of the current phrases goes, it is [more…]