20th Century
Human Interest
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and Three
Monday Good morning everyone, it’s rather nice this morning, warm and sunny. For once the forecasters have got it right. The idiot on the radio annoyed me this morning going on about the government’s ‘ban’ [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Three
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here This time: Fire alarms, posh houses and the directors. Getting well into my list of service calls [more…]
Culture
A View From The Greenhouse; The Ubiquitous Mission Statement!
I’ve mentioned “Old Jack” and his abandoned (now becoming ramshackle) old house before, on more than one occasion. If it were just about anywhere else in the UK which isn’t a tiny rural hamlet, I’m [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and Two
Monday Good morning everyone from an extremely quiet London on this bank holiday Monday. I can normally hear lots of traffic noise and this morning there is hardly any. There is only a skeleton staff [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Two
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here This time: Fire damage, I meet the Geezer and being on call. Following the call from Melanie to head to a [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and One
Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week of madness. I demand to know what has happened to summer this year. I’m sure that when I was a kitten, summer days were hot and [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part One
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. In March 1994, I found myself working for one of the UK’s leading privately owned alarm companies. I had secured a job as an alarm [more…]
Human Interest
The Evil That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Deeply buried in the LGBTQ+ acronym is the letter ‘P’. So deeply buried is it, that it doesn’t actually appear to be there. But believe me, it is. That invisible ‘P’ stands for ‘Paedophile’, and [more…]