Hobbies

Crossword No. 130

8th August 2020 Going Postal 0

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 Last week’s winner. 129, a copy of A Bear’s Diary [more…]

Hopefully, the Last of Identity Politics in Gaming

7th August 2020 Going Postal 0

Spoiler alert! I’ll be adding plenty so make sure you read each and every one so you never have to play this turd of a game! First off, my apologies for the lateness of this [more…]

I’ve got my eye on you!

4th August 2020 Going Postal 0

Last week I was slobbing in front of the TV watching Married at First Sight Australia. Guilty pleasure but it’s escapism from the full-on pressures of the day job. The couples had to go back [more…]

Where the Surf Meets the Turf

4th August 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

In their 1963 hit single, the Beach Boys sang that if everybody had an ocean (across the USA) then they’d all be surfing, like in Cal-if-orn-i-a. In the first line of the chorus, they went [more…]

Following on from Novak and Goode’s excellent postcard from Vilnius, I thought I’d share some photos of our trip there in October last year. I’ve been before as my mate married a Lithuanian girl and [more…]

Larry’s Diary Week Fifty Two

2nd August 2020 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone and welcome to a year of my diary. I must admit I didn’t expect it to last this long. I thought you, happy readers, would have got fed up with it [more…]

Crossword No. 129

1st August 2020 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 128 Captain Black. Answers [more…]

Car review: Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid Auto 2018

31st July 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Following on from the excellent article by AWS the other Friday on a VW thing, I thought I would do one on the car I have just purchased. Maybe some of you could write something, [more…]

Atomic Buffalo Turds

29th July 2020 Captain Black 0

The time has come to introduce the uninitiated Puffins of this world to one of the best kept secrets of the culinary world: Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs). Don’t ask me how they got their name [more…]