Human Interest
Recent Incendiary Allegations – An Explanation
They say that lightning doesn’t strike twice. They are wrong. And if it scorches a doorway or two and sets one of my old cars alight, then so be it — some things are meant [more…]
Human Interest
20th Century
Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?
Once upon a time we knew our place in the universe. The science was settled and the experts agreed. The Earth was at the centre of the universe and everything we could see in the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Two
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It’s a bit cloudy this morning and I see, according to the forecast, it’s going to rain in London later this morning. Legohead held a presser this morning to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-One
Monday Good morning, happy readers, from a sunny but chilly early morning London, where I am happy to see Liebore has learnt nothing from last week’s election, and its representatives on the Sunday morning political [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty
Monday Good morning on this beautiful Monday morning. When I went for my pre-breakfast poo it was wonderfully sunny and warm. For a change, I got back before my feeder arrived and, after saying hello [more…]
Animals
Larry’s diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy Nine
Monday Good morning on this Bank Holiday Monday. It is nice and quiet here in Number Ten with only a small crew on. The girl who was on feeding duty this morning was not very [more…]
Hobbies
On Greenlaning
Greenlaning, the driving of motorised vehicles on the approximately 6,000 miles of tracks, paths and byways with legal rights of way in England & Wales, can be understandably controversial. This article will not explore the [more…]
20th Century
Book Review: Soldaten, ‘On fighting, killing and dying’
This book, originally published in 2012, is based on the discovery of transcripts of covert surveillance of German prisoners of war in WW2, found initially in archives in Great Britain and latterly in archives in [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Seventy Eight
Monday Good morning, and it looks like today could be the last day of decent weather, with rain forecast for tomorrow morning. I was not surprised to see that Parliament was busy on Saturday, but [more…]