Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Five
Jinnie had gone back to bed after her second chat with Ro but woke for a second time just after 7am and lay for a few minutes listening to the twins chatting to Izzy in [more…]
Literature
Business
A View (A Few Miles) From The Greenhouse; Enemies At The Gates…..
Autumn’s been wet but mild up here in the north western wastelands, leading to an explosion of colour in the flora of the area which has lasted well into November. I took a walk in [more…]
20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Eight
Part 8 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Kulir Lodge, Nonvianuk Lake I am roughing it with the rich. There are about 30 [more…]
20th Century
Military Ghosts – Lincolnshire’s and other Airbases
The ending of Len Deighton’s meticulously researched novel “Bomber” is in my opinion some of the most poignant written words to appear in a book. He describes visiting the fictional bomber airfield of Warley Fen, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ten
Monday Good morning cat lovers, and welcome to another week of reports from Downing Street. I see we had another big pro-Palestinian march in London where the marchers were shouting about jihad and waving Palestinian [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Ten
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here Part Four is here Part Five is here Part Six is here Part [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd November 2023 The Panel: Jeremy Quin (Conservative) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Marie van der Zyl (Board of Deputies of British Jews) Mustafa Suleyman (AI Entrepreneur) Camilla Cavendish (Financial Times) Venue: Chipping Campden After [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Six – Chapter Four
Jinnie and Penny expanded their search for more debris that could have come from a drone. A walk around the pool deck revealed the burnt deck in several places and burnt piles of loungers, but [more…]
20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Seven
Part 7 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Yellowknife, on the Great Slave Lake I flew the 800 miles from Edmonton to Yellowknife [more…]