Arts
Postcard from Lille Part 57
A funny thing happened on the way to Lille university. Funny for the rest of us but not so funny for my wife. She got stuck in the Metro’s automatic doors. They closed on her [more…]
Memoir
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty One
Monday Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week’s doings in the wonderful world of Westminster. It’s a wet morning in London today with some hail. That’s better than up north where there is a [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille Part 56
Before I start, Gisele is a flowery writer and is prone to exaggeration. Aren’t we all? She is also prone to acting on those exaggerations, therefore we must take what she says seriously. Plus, across [more…]
Arts
Worst first day
Firstly JGM2 this was going to be a reply to you but upon its length I decided to submit it for an article: I got a new job as a van driver, large firm based [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty
Monday Monday morning and it’s breakfast on my own as the gang are still at Chequers. It was another wet and windy weekend courtesy of Storm Dennis. I hear that some of the poor people [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille Part 55
At the end of a veranda, which separated the novice nun’s dormitory from the school’s basketball court, was a ‘shower’. A pyramid of plastic buckets sat below a tap which part filled them as it [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Twenty Nine
Monday Well, that was a lovely wet and windy weekend. I didn’t go outside any more than was absolutely essential, it’s not nice getting wet fur and being blown all over the place. I’d much [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille Part 54
Lille, Nord Pas de Calais. 26 November 2018 11:04 am In Lille, the six of us wander the Boulevards, very impressive they are too. Making for the Lille Eye, a giant Ferris wheel installed for [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Twenty Eight
Monday Good Morning merry readers, I had a lovely peaceful day yesterday, but things were a bit hectic down in Streatham High Street. Another madman went on a stabbing spree in the name of “religion”. [more…]