Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast. There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more…]
PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life. Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]
It had been Morrison’s idea to set up the “Inkspots Self-preservation Society” to give it its full title. The name came from an old record they found in the Sergeants’ Mess storeroom and the Hermann [more…]
Monday Morning all and welcome to another week of all my little stories. Firstly though I thought it was going to be nice today, but it’s a bit grey first thing. I was reading about [more…]
It is nineteen eighty-four. If Big Brother is watching he will observe myself, my colleague Natasha Williams and a disguise enhancing borrowed toddler (called Jakey) in a pushchair hunkered on a bench beneath a tree. [more…]
Jinnie and Penny entered King Charles the Martyr Church in Mutton Lane, Potters Bar. Jinnie shivered, despite it being a pleasant sunny early June day, the brick-built church felt chilly. But then maybe it was [more…]
Question Time 17th June 2021 Panel: Mark Harper (Conservative) Sarah Jones (Labour) Rosemary Squire (Trafalgar Entertainment) Daniel Finkelstein (Journalist and peer) Ian Blackford (SNP) Venue: London & Cornwall Gloria de Piero, the gal who puts [more…]
In weather fit for neither man nor beast, we climb through a northern landscape, sculpted from rock by water, and the detritus from receding ice, to emerge into sunlight. And there we come across a [more…]
Rachel DeSouza strode purposefully from the velvet curtain edged wings of the conference centre, out to the lectern that was positioned under the spotlights, at the centre of the wide stage. Her high heeled, though [more…]
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