20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1979
Featured song: Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall – Live This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]
Arts
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 5th June 2025 The Panel: Alex Davies-Jones (Labour) Darren Millar (Conservative) Llinos Medi (Plaid Cymru) Mark Serwotka (Trade Unionist) Annabel Denham (Journalist) Venue: Llandudno Annabel Denham is cagey about her personal details. We [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Fourteen
When Jinnie got to the TT SuperBurgers offices on Monday morning, the first thing she noticed was both Belinda and Brian’s cars in the Directors’ car park. Jinnie headed up to her office and had [more…]
Going Postal
Summer Bash 2025
One last reminder that Bash 2025 is on June 27th – June 29th 2025 at the The Gate Hangs High. If you stay in Chipping Norton/Hook Norton you should be able to share taxis/rides. Large [more…]
20th Century
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – TISWAS
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday glides effortlessly across the crease to deliver yet another groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Tonight we consider [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 29th May 2025 The Panel: Heidi Alexander (Labour) David Simmonds (Conservative) Jess Brown-Fuller (Liberal Democrat) Ava-Santina Evans (Politics Joe) Tim Montgomerie (Journalist and commentator) Venue: Cheltenham Introduced as a journalist and commentator, Tim [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Thirteen
The meeting planning the press release broke up once the story to be told was agreed, and Alan’s press officer was tasked with producing the approved version to be released to the press. Alan was [more…]
Diary
A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; The Great Betrayal(s)
My loyal reader may remember an article I published, funnily enough, in May 2022 when I wrote about my encounter with a fellow in Bath and my resultant (and still current) flirtation with herbalism. I [more…]
21st Century
Big Boys’ Rules
In yet another BBC documentary on the subject, a Panorama edition entitled Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes dropped on 12th May and investigated serious allegations against UK Special Forces, in particular the SAS and [more…]