Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Sampling

3rd November 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly look at the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be probing [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

3rd November 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 2nd November 2023 The Panel: Jeremy Quin (Conservative) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Marie van der Zyl (Board of Deputies of British Jews) Mustafa Suleyman (AI Entrepreneur) Camilla Cavendish (Financial Times) Venue: Chipping Campden After [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Seven

31st October 2023 Going Postal 0

Part 7 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Yellowknife, on the Great Slave Lake I flew the 800 miles from Edmonton to Yellowknife [more…]

Night and Low Light Photography

30th October 2023 Grimy Miner 0

This article is in response to a number of questions and requests by posters on here; in particular, how to take a photograph of the Moon and not have the highlights blown out. However, I [more…]

Blitz And Rebuilding

28th October 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Plymouth and the Blitz Plymouth is a city located in the county of Devon. Geographically, it is positioned on the south coast and is approximately 36 miles southwest of Exeter and 193 miles southwest of [more…]

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Hair Metal

27th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – our weekly tribute to the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are simply fabulous darling. This week we travel [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th October 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 26th October 2023 The Panel: Lee Rowley (Conservative) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Alyn Smith (SNP) Gabriel Pogrund (Author and journalist) Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (Conservative) Venue: Bradford September 28th’s Question Time from Sale wondered if [more…]

A View From The Farmhouse, Part Four

26th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Work is ongoing to make more vegetables plots, obtain manure for the ones we have and keep the composting going. I will add another bin to the three recently built and establish a place for [more…]

’59 Trail, Part Six

24th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Part 6 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Flin Flon, North Manitoba This is a country where hard fact and fantastic fiction are [more…]