Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Six
Monday Morning my lovely readers, gosh these Monday mornings come around too quickly for me, now I’m getting to be an old cat I think one day off a week is too little. Who do [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Twelve
Larry woke early on Monday morning, he had a feeling that everything was OK and Jinnie would be back later this morning. He didn’t know why or how but he was certain she would be [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th March 2022 The Panel: Damian Hines (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Dom Joly (Comedian) Mark Serwokta (PCS Union) Venue: Reading Puffins often wonder, in the unread comments nested below [more…]
Hobbies
Board Game Review: Twilight Struggle
If you think of board games, traditional favourites such as Monopoly, Cluedo or Risk probably come to mind. However, in the late 1990s and 2000s a new generation of board games started being developed that [more…]
20th Century
South Pole or Bust
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) The special correspondent is a modest chap. He’ll tell you that he’s only a reporter watching [more…]
Collecting
A View From The Greenhouse; This Sporting Life
Life carries on much as normal, given the increasingly bizarre times we live in. The weather, thankfully, has picked up and jobs that have been on hold for a couple of weeks have risen to [more…]
Arts
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe & The Propaganda War Against Iran
The Mysterious Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe In the early hours of Thursday 17th March 2022, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire after a near six-year-long detention in her native Iran. Part of the time [more…]
20th Century
Disaster at Munich
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) A good reporter must be impersonal. He must write the story as he finds it, without [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojurn – Chapter 29
Bogota He drove to his hotel and during the journey, Rivera was quiet, contemplating the awfulness of her predicament. Only one person could save her and he said very little as they went through the [more…]