Diary
A View From The Greenhouse; Hooptedoodle And Other Matters
I return from a bit of a hiatus where, due to several factors, not the least of them a little bit of self pity, I allowed what passes for my creative flow to dry up. [more…]
Literature
Diary
WG’s Christmas Cruise 2025 – Part Four
Monday 29th December, Lanzarote I woke up about 05:30 and we were moving very slowly off the coast of Lanzarote. It is still dark and the lights along the coast were twinkling. Much too early [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twelve
Monday Good morning, my friends, I am beginning to get back into the diary routine after my enforced break. I hear my scribe has got four cruises booked for June and Christmas this year and [more…]
Authoritarianism
Breaking: Another Defector to Reform
Clacton. This Saturday afternoon. A beaming Nigel Farage introduces to a rapturous Reform UK audience the latest high-profile right-winger to defect to their party. Following in the footsteps of Nadhim Zahawi, Robert Jenrick and Suella [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time January 29th 2026 The Panel: Douglas Alexander (Labour) James Cartlidge (Conservative) Jo Grady (University And College Union) Konstantin Kisin (Commentator & podcaster) Venue: King’s Lynn Son of a doctor and a Church of [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Fifteen
On the Monday morning following the barbecue, Jinnie was sat at her desk compiling a list of people she was going to have to brief about, firstly, the new corporate identity and then style book [more…]
Geology
Carlisle-Settle-Preston
It’s Wednesday morning around 9:00 and I’m at Carlisle station. AWS didn’t manage to make his proposed rail journey down to Preston because of cancellations. Hongkonger has done rather better. The train at platform 3 [more…]
Diary
WG’s Christmas Cruise 2025 – Part Three
Thursday 25th December, Christmas Day at Sea I started my Christmas Day with the Bing Bong of the ship’s tannoy waking me from my slumbers and the voice of the ship’s Captain apologising for the [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Fifty
Two of my brothers were merchant seamen, the oldest of us (who had the dubious pleasure of being a fellow steward of Two Jags Prescott on the White Star liners) came back from The States [more…]