Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Seven
Monday Morning all. I woke up to thunder and torrential rain this morning but it must have been a passing heavy shower because by the time I had a good stretch, a scratch and stuck [more…]
Human Interest
America
The Land Beyond the Khyber
My uncle was, from the end of the war until his death in 1973, Special Correspondent for the Manchester Evening News. I recently came across an article which the paper published in June 1971 in [more…]
Hobbies
Seventies Hard Times And Hard Men
There is a shortage of lorry drivers, micro-chips and articles. Strange times that allow me permission to ramble. Put the thesaurus away. Forget about those long German words. If Shakespeare or Bernard Shaw or Oscar [more…]
Animals
Cnuteneering, Part Twenty Six
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week, One Hundred and Six
Monday Hi folks, bit dull this morning and a little drizzly. Looks like it will have to be an indoor snooze for me this afternoon. I need a bit of a sleep as I keep [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Five
Monday Morning people, another week’s reporting stretches before me and I am itching to get going. As I have told you before there is a skeleton staff working overnight in the offices but they don’t [more…]
Biography
An Everyday Story of London Folk
My mother died on 14 February 2002. It still feels like only yesterday I lost her. Very suddenly without any previous illness. My mum was born in 1919 to a war torn and disabled father [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Romania – Part Five
Part Four of this Postcard from Romania revealed the joys of First-Class train travel through the ever-changing landscapes of this beautiful country, and a taste of Ursus, Romania’s most popular brew. We’d arrived at our [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering, Part Twenty Five
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]