Arts
To Wawa and Beyond
The rooster started crowing at 3 am, which then set the dogs off. The barking went on for a while then a motorbike without a silencer went roaring past. It must have been 3-45am when [more…]
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Culture
A View From (Inside) The Greenhouse; A Rift In The Political Continuum
No rest for the wicked, also, or so it seems, no rest for Dave, who continues to throw himself, wholeheartedly, at the creation and preparation of our outdoor growing area. After much discussion about the [more…]
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Listen again
I was 17 and probably on my second car as the first one was too far gone on the floors and sills to be worth repairing. I was attending College and hung around with a [more…]
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Destroyer (Kiss album)
Do you remember the scene in Macbeth when he and Banquo meet the witches for the first time and Shakespeare makes Banquo speak words of utter bewilderment: What are these | So withered and so [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 29th February 2024 The Panel: Baroness Warsi (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Caroline Lucas (Green) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Venue: Croydon At the time of writing, there’s no sign of any Question Time guests. Ordinarily [more…]
20th Century
Desert Journey, Part Four
In 1961 my uncle, John Alldridge spent some time on the set of Lawrence of Arabia and reported his experiences for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F The best paid maniacs in the world The [more…]
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The Lighthouse of The Pacific
Leaving the Pan-American highway and heading west beyond the urban sprawl of second city Santa Ana, we follow the route of the El Salvador Railway Company’s Ahuachapan branch line which we discovered last time. Nothing [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: The Old Grey Whistle Test
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – our fortnightly frolic in the uphill garden of musical fragrance. This week we take a puddle-jumping probe into the rainbow and glitter world of [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 22nd February 2024 The Panel: Laura Farris (Conservative) Stella Creasy (Labour) Camilla Tominay (Journalist) Jason Arday (Academic) Venue: Maidenhead Berkshire-born Laura Farris is the Conservative MP for Newbury. The 45-year-old graduated in PPE [more…]