Arts
In Support ….of the Support – Part One
Once again I’ve found myself starting a piece for here where so much stuff has come into my mind I’ve had to split it. The lot of a support band is not great. On a [more…]
Human Interest
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Six
Monday Good morning, my friends, it’s yet another lovely morning weather-wise, but the radio tells me it is going to be a wet evening and overnight. I suppose the garden can do with it. I [more…]
History
Dabbling with Genealogy
Genealogy noun: a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. My interest in genealogy began with an old family photograph of my maternal great-grandparents and their family at the time. My maternal grandfather was [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty Five
Monday Good morning, my friends, and welcome to another week’s worth of tales from your favourite cat reporter. The weather here in London is really rather nice this morning, sunny, dry, and getting warmer. The [more…]
Fiction
Elementary, my dear Watson – the Group 19 elements
After a rather extended respite hiatus, welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends… wending our way through the elements and the Groups of the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Four
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was lovely and sunny this morning when I woke up, not too cold when I popped out, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain. But the forecast [more…]
Health
Tomorrow’s Another Day
It’s now 1:30 am 10th April …………..a couple of hours after Mrs. C. and Mrs. Bessie Mate finished their 2hr conversation/catch up on the phone…………………Mrs. Bessie Mate lives nought but 5 mins walk away… The [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Three
Monday Good morning, my friends, and a Happy Easter Monday to you all. I hope you have had a load of chocolate eggs. It is a beautiful, sunny morning here in London, with not a [more…]
20th Century
Standing with Giants: A Postcard from Pompey
‘Twas on a grey, damp and dismal day in January that, together with a couple of my ‘dementia friends’, I headed off to Fort Nelson, one of Palmerston’s Follies. This particular Fort is not quite [more…]