First, for those people in the UK and other countries where it is illegal to distil spirits without a licence, here’s the legal bit: “It is illegal to manufacture spirits in the UK without a [more…]
I can’t understand why people are rude to the staff. I was always getting told off for being kind, or even just polite, to the maids and servants, or ‘helpers’ as they were often known. I was hissed at for always saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. Enquiring politely about their families was frowned upon and helping them with their chores got the second greatest insult [more…]
During a recent bout of insomnia caused by near-fatal man flu I tuned into the GP night shift to provide some distraction from the snuffling, hacking, wife-disturbing misery. It was only a tea-lit personal message [more…]
“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
As she is so old now and we try to dredge up our shared history, she tells me things I never knew about our family. Her parents, my grandparents fell in love, got it together [more…]
There’s a lot of us on here been expressing our sadness and sense of loss at JtB’s departure from our company. And quite a few have said how odd it is, having only known him [more…]
Mr Gecko lived in the roof space of 25 St Therese Street, in the subdivision of Yulo, in Josephina City, near the creek, slightly inland, on Josephina Island, half way down the Philippine archipelago. He [more…]
As you probably know Mrs JtB contacted me today to let me know her husband had passed away. ‘Jen’ enjoyed winding me up about sending him a mug and succeeded until I realised that was [more…]
Ferdinand Marcos having been deposed and his People Power successor Corazon Aquino having failed to control the country, an election was due in May 1992. In which, fortunately, no one from the Aquino clan wanted [more…]
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