Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Eighteen
Jinnie had a sense of déjà vu as she stood in Terminal Three arrivals by the exit from the customs hall waiting for Monica to appear, it was not so long ago that she had [more…]
Arts
Going Postal
Bash 2025 Report
The site has changed under the new owner. Perhaps not quite as bucolic but it’s good to see the place busy and hopefully making money because the alternative would likely be another housing estate. Things [more…]
Christianity
Changed Times? Part Two
Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 26th June 2025 The Panel: Anas Sarwar (Labour) Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Thomas Kerr (Reform UK) Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP) Lesley Riddoch (Journalist & Broadcaster) Venue: St Andrews Shirley-Anne Somerville is the Scrounging Nasty Party [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Seventeen
Two weeks after briefing Brooke and Brian on her plan to expand into Florida, Jinnie was on her way home from a day in Crawley where she had been catching up on SuperBurger and DKL [more…]
Going Postal
Bash 2025 Weekend
It will be a decent crowd with a mix of old hands and newbies. Be gentle with them. We normally do a whip round for Saturday morning booze and food shopping. £10-£15 if you’re not [more…]
Arts
Embers of The Affair, Part One
This is a recollection, in verse, of one of the most momentous periods in my life. But first – a tribute from me to all the lovely GP Laydees: And have you now, and will [more…]
20th Century
Changed Times?
John Smyth was a Canadian-born British barrister and Christian evangelist born in 1941. Son of Colonel Edward Smyth, after prep school in Canada and public school in England, he completed his education at Trinity Hall, [more…]