Hobbies
Crossword No. 153
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/copy of War Crimes. 151 – [more…]
Hobbies
Hobbies
Shunting up and down – Episode 8
We left this saga with some success and some frustrations. The track was mocked up in parts, with the track tester showing where more work was required (particularly around points). I’d made a ham fisted [more…]
Animals
Wildfowling: Of possible futures
Sadly, this is the last in my short series about my great passion, and it is also the least satisfying part to write. It is no longer a missive about my personal experiences, but the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Five
Monday Hello everyone, I am a bit confused, it was Boxing Day on Saturday but it a bank holiday today and there seems to be very few in the office again. Well, at least there [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 152
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of Blown Periphery’s ‘War Crimes for the Political Elite’. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s [more…]
Animals
A Dog’s Life
He was born in the maze of kennels and lean-tos in the back garden of an unassuming end terrace on the outskirts of Aldershot. The house was owned and inhabited by a strange and mysterious [more…]
Cooking
It’s a Bird………..It’s a plane……… No, It’s a Scotch Egg
Does it really take a planned demic to bring a much loved and often forgotten item out from the dark shadows of a corner shop chill cabinet and put in the spotlight front & centre [more…]
Hobbies
Shunting Along – part 7
The run up to Christmas involved a few days helping out at Tanfield Railway – long hours and endless sanitising Santa’s Grotto meant not a great deal of work was done on the layout. Once [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 5
Unless one is rich enough to have a yacht custom-built to one’s own specification, which I certainly was not, one has to choose a “Production” model in much the same way most people buy motor [more…]