Culture

Porcelain

5th September 2017 Going Postal 0 Comments

Porcelain, in many ways, is an ideal material for making sculpture, strong, light and is both amenable to colour and beautiful just as it is. It will not, however, resist thermal or mechanical shock. Treated [more…]

Review – Dunkirk, by Rat Catcher

8th August 2017 rattuscatchus 1 Comment

It was on Saturday that Mrs. Catcher and I took the train to the imax cinema to see Dunkirk. It is quite a journey so we made a night of it and came back the [more…]

Postcard from Way-Els

23rd July 2017 Going Postal 0 Comments

Way-Els – The English words “Wales” and “Welsh” derive from the same Germanic root (singular Walh, plural Walha), which was itself derived from the name of the Celtic tribe known to the Romans as Volcae [more…]

Postcard from Mexico, No 1

18th July 2017 Going Postal 0 Comments

Fauna of Quintana Roo, Yucatán Peninsula. On land along with the tarantulas, scorpions, snakes, iguanas, howler monkeys, agoutis and raccoons. Troops of Coatis (Coatimundi) are one of the more endearing animals to be seen in [more…]

Gmbd, Honesty

17th June 2017 Gmbd 0 Comments

I don’t want to sound boastful but I think I started very early. All I ever did was think. I thought within my capabilities but the important thing that you need to understand is that [more…]

Wankpuffin – GE2017 Election Special

8th June 2017 Going Postal 0 Comments

Off Grid Living, 1945 to 1953

21st February 2017 GrumpyAngler 0 Comments

I lived for the first seven years of my life in a hamlet on the western fringe of Salisbury Plain. At about six hundred and sixty feet above sea level it was a fairly bleak [more…]

Foraging for food in the Fifties

11th February 2017 GrumpyAngler 1 Comment

I was born in 1945, the war had just ended, the world was a very different place then. As a child food was one of my primary concerns, it was difficult to find enough fuel [more…]