America
The Two Wolves
This story is a bit of a fudge, but Bob is short of material, so it might get through. Mustn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the adequate, after all… I’ve long had this [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Samyaza Chapter 12, The Tze’elim Base Urban Warfare Training Center – July 2006
The Urban Warfare Training Center at the Tze’elim Army Base, was built at a cost of $45 million. Nicknamed “Baladia” (Arabic for “city”), it is a 7.4 square mile training centre used to instruct soldiers [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Fifty
Monday Good morning folks, I hope you noticed that this is my 150th diary entry I am sharing with you. It’s another lovely sunny morning but it’s not quite as warm. No Bozzie at breakfast [more…]
Literature
Cupid’s Dart (ii)
‘Was Blake right? What do you think, dear?’ I was a bit nonplussed by this, since we’d been talking about how ever more pricey things had been becoming lately. ‘Blake?…’ ‘Yes, dear: “Milton was of [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Twenty-Six
The training was going better than Jinnie could possibly have hoped. She had seen a lot of all the members of the group and had worked out who could shoot, who could operate a radio, [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th June 2022 The Panel: Craig Hoy (Conservative) Pam Duncan-Glancy (Labour) Angus Robertson (SNP) Fraser Nelson (The Spectator) Susie McCabe (Comedian) Venue: Inverness If Puffins think Nish Kumar is un-funny their paths have [more…]
Fiction
A ghost story
Here is a short story. It starts on a train and I’m talking to a fellow commuter and it’s set in the time BC – Before Coronavirus….. I really hate mobile phones. There’s no privacy, [more…]
Book Review
New Grub Street by George Gissing: A Review
Russell Kirk the philosopher, compared George Gissing’s The Nether World to a literal Hell on earth. It was “the culmination of our social revolutions” which would make life more torturous. For New Grub Street, Kirk’s [more…]
Arts
A View From The Greenhouse, A “Mini” Postcard, The Right To Choose
I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]