Culture
The Last Unwrecked Market Town?
Excuse the provocative title, I know there are a few others left but let me flesh out my view, I have been fortunate to have travelled much of the world on business which has meant [more…]
Culture
Arts
It’s Over, Goodbye 4chan
On the 14th of April, the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. 4Chan had been hacked. While it has been hacked before, none of them have ever been this devastating. The Source code has [more…]
Culture
A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; Englishness
My loyal reader may well remember the buildings and maintenance department, at my request, taking the big saw to the plum tree, which at the time was riddled with canker, if an attempt to encourage [more…]
Arts
Culture
A Potteries Idyll
This will be quite brief for a Sharpie article (I can almost hear the collective sighs of relief) but it acts as a bit of a paean to The Potteries, and one not only from [more…]
Culture
(Not) A View From The Greenhouse; After The Goldrush. The End
I recently had the pleasure of visiting a hospital. Not an A&E, thankfully, but a famous hospital in the North West of England where I attended for a “pre-op” appointment. It’s an indictment, albeit a [more…]
Culture
The Nepo Thing
While the term “nepo baby” is a recent addition to cultural vocabulary, the phenomenon of nepotism in entertainment, fashion and media has existed for as long as these industries themselves. Family connections have always played [more…]
20th Century
A View From The Greenhouse…..Fixing The Foundations, To Build Back Better
On Sunday night just passed we were treated to the sight of upwards of 150 tractors, of varying shapes and sizes, convoying around the villages in this part of Cumbria be-decked in Christmas lights. As [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; Scales Of Justice….Innit?
It’s often quite surprising when you find something that you didn’t know was lost, as happened recently with this set of scales. I didn’t “rediscover” them myself, the buildings and maintenance department did, but we’re [more…]