Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Four
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here This time: I make a friend and a ram raid I am settling [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st September 2023 The Panel: Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative) Thangam Debbonaire (Labour) Matthew Syed (Journalist and Author) Ella Whelan (Journalist and Author) Venue: Ipswich In the guff accompanying this week’s Question Time, the BBC [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Thirty
Paolo and Jinnie chatted about the evening as, with the cruise control set to 70, they raced around an empty M25. They both agreed it had been a fabulous evening and Jinnie asked Lucia what [more…]
16th Century
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcala de Henares on the 29th September 1547, the second son of Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas. His father led a precarious and unsettled life as an [more…]
20th Century
The ’59 Trail, Part One
In May 1959 The Birmingham Mail introduced my uncle’s latest article as follows: Where will you find the last pioneers in this age when frontiers are shrinking every day? In Canada’s Far North – the [more…]
Fiction
The Cuds, Part I
A World of one-thousand-four-hundred years ago, Separated from us by four-and-a-half hours Three hours and fifteen minutes into their shift, the pilot and weapons systems operator of the Reaper drone were on top of their [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and Three
Monday Good morning everyone, it’s rather nice this morning, warm and sunny. For once the forecasters have got it right. The idiot on the radio annoyed me this morning going on about the government’s ‘ban’ [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Three
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here This time: Fire alarms, posh houses and the directors. Getting well into my list of service calls [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Twenty-Nine
A rather tense Ro parked her second-hand Ford Focus behind a brand new Citroën C3 and walked up the garden path past another C3. She was still looking at the shiny new car on the [more…]