Hobbies
The Eleventh Shunt
Things have moved on a bit this episode, with some visible progress for once! I must thank you all for your kind words in the unread comments, which do spur me on to do a [more…]
Hobbies
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
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…]