Hobbies
Crossword No. 99
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. 98 – Audrey’s daughter. Answers with next [more…]
Hobbies
Cooking
Store-cupboard essentials and techniques
Far be it for a GP author to ever admit defeat, but in this particular instance, I must bow to the inevitable, once the full extent of the challenge becomes clear. Grimy Miner, you know [more…]
Hobbies
On Killing Things
The Switzerland I knew in the 1980s was the other side of the country from Vaud, the remote canton of Graubünden (Grisons), home to German-, Italian- and Romansh-speaking farmers and villagers, where Alpine cattle were [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 98
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 weeks’ winner. 97 – b-bob. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Arts
Wankpuffin’s 2019 Going Postal Fireside Christmas Special Spectacular
Thanks to all of you who wrote the songs. We couldn’t use all of them, due to lack of time and talent (see grovelling apology in the credits). They will be used in the next [more…]
Fiction
A Going Postal Christmas Carol: Miriam’s Shack
If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 44
There may not be a Santo Domingo and Macapagal intersection, suitable for bus spotting after a courier drop. There is a Roberto Orca and Bonifacio Drive and that’s where we’re stood right now this minute, [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 97
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a Christmas puffin mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Christmas Day subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. 96 – Audrey’s Daughter. Answers [more…]
Cooking
21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)
In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]