Fiction
Samyaza Epilogue – 2017, No Time to Mope
Some violence. Afarin Khan looked at herself in the mirror and sure enough, an old lady stared back at her. She picked at her hair and felt her joints that told her she was getting [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 8th December 2022 The Panel: Guy Opperman (Conservative) Lucy Powell (Labour) Patrick Grant (Fashion designer) Isabel Oakeshott (Journalist) Stewart Hosie (SNP) Venue: Bishop Auckland An unlikely boulevardier, Mr Hosie has suffered a sex [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Four – Chapter Twenty-One
Jinnie got the expected summons to see ‘C’ in the middle of the following morning. Emma smiled as she entered the outer office and pointed at the Daily Express on her side table and said, [more…]
19th Century
The Wild West Trail, Part Two
Second in a series by my uncle John Alldridge. This article first appeared in the Derby Evening Telegraph in December 1967 – Jerry F We slept that first night at Alcove Springs, a straggling thicket [more…]
Arts
A Postcard From India; Road Trip Part 1; Delhi-Jaipur-Karauli
I don’t know this for a fact, but I’m pretty sure whatever time you might choose to leave the environs of Delhi, unless it’s in the dead of night, the traffic on the main roads [more…]
Journalism
Finding Ngozi
For obvious reasons myself and Swiss Bob don’t know each other’s true identities nor are we ever aware of each other’s exact whereabouts. Secret messages whizz around the globe. A sentence is out of place [more…]
Fiction
Samyaza Chapter 34 – Albania and England 2013
Contains violence and a description of suicide. Jean-Claude took the morning BA flight from London to Tirana, and it landed at 13:00. He got a taxi from the airport to the British embassy at Rruga [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Seventy
Monday Good morning cat lovers, it was dry when I first woke up and ventured out into the cold, but gosh it’s wet now. A lovely peaceful weekend in Downing Street. I did almost nothing [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 1st December 2022 The Panel: David TC Davies (Conservative) Vaughan Gething (Welsh Labour) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Olivia Utley (GB News) Shavanah Taj (Wales TUC) Venue: Aberystwyth “Where are you from?”, asked a [more…]