Animals
A Bear’s Diary – Part 1
Cambridge, Novr. 6th, 1805. I did not dance well at the Bonfire Night show on Midsummer Common. Afterwards, Fred said to me, ‘Daisy, me ole dear. Yer knows and I knows yer gettin’ a bit [more…]
Literature
20th Century
Murder on Meon Hill
Meon Hill lies in the valley of the River Avon, on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. It is an outlier of the Cotswolds and, although it reaches only a modest 194m of elevation, [more…]
Arts
How to cock your bird this Christmas
I am hoping not too many spelling errors this time. It’s that time of year where you will be wanting a nice moist bird, perhaps Chicken or Turkey for Christmas, so to help you I [more…]
Arts
“Yippee Ki Yay, Ya Wee Fanny” – A Polis Sco’lan Christmas Tale
Ah pure cannae be f**ked wi’ Chrishmas. Brengs back a loadae sh*te memries fae when ah wis a wean. Wha hod f**kin’ hee haw cuz ma da spent aw tha dole money oan drenk an [more…]
Arts
Winnie the Pooh Goes Christmas Shopping
“Afternoon, Pooh,” said Piglet, as he spotted a large pile of gift-wrapped parcels wobbling up the track to the Wood, “It is Pooh under there, isn’t it?” “Yes,” said Pooh, slightly muffled, “I’m having [more…]
Biography
The Right Way To Put Out A Fire (Finally)
In March 2013 I was appointed to RFA Fort Austin. Within NATO she is classified as an AFSH, that’s to say a combat stores ship with the necessary facilities on board to embark a helicopter. [more…]
Arts
Revolution and Swamp Draining
Introduction If our traitorous, gurning, cowardly, yet ruthless and self serving hag of a Prime Minister passes this farce of a withdrawal agreement through parliament, then I would expect there to be either: civil unrest/rioting, [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Socialist Phenomenon by Igor Shafarevich
You don’t believe in God, so you begin to believe that man is a god. You don’t believe in Heaven, so you begin to believe in heaven on earth. In other words you get romanticism [more…]
Biography
My Mate Asil
It was a fairly normal telephone call that started the whole thing: “We want to licence your software for use in Northern Cyprus and Turkey” OK , so far so good, and after a few [more…]