Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Nine
Monday Well, it did snow here yesterday, but not much and most of it melted. I did pop out but not for long, unlike the Mutt snow is not for me, he can go and [more…]
Hobbies
Hobbies
Crossword No. 156
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winners of a GP mug 155 – Tbd. Answers with [more…]
Animals
You’ve Been Framed
Well, my fine, feathered, Fraterculae friends, before you skip straight away to the comments which no-one ever reads, a little disclaimer. Despite the title, this piece is most definitely not connected to the brash, uncrowned [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 7
PREFACE I’d like to start this article by explaining I scan the comments as each part is published and decide whether or not to continue the series accordingly. I’m now too old to continue for [more…]
Hobbies
The Shunting Tenth
Usually around this time of the week I start to think about what I could possibly write about shunting. Most of the emails are cleared, the meetings sorted out, the minutes done etc and the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Part Seventy Eight
Monday Another week begins and it’s another frosty morning, so I only nipped out into the garden very briefly before breakfast. Today I read of the leading contenders for the leadership of the Scottishland Labour [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 155
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winners of a GP mug 154 – Tbd. Answers with [more…]
Arts
Film Review: The Tourist
It all started, they say, when he met a woman……….. Angeline Jolie plays Elise, the extraordinary and captivating girlfriend of Alexander Pearce, a criminal who has sensibly disappeared after embezzling $2 billion from a mobster. [more…]
Arts
Confessions of a campsite courier, Part 2
Je vous parle d’un temps Que les moins de vingt ans Ne peuvent pas connaître ….. C’est là qu’on s’est connu Moi qui criait famine Et toi qui posais nue….. Charles Aznavour – La Bohème [more…]