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Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Four

28th January 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie’s newly enlarged team got down to work immediately, hitting the phones to the contacts. The military were as helpful as the SIS hadn’t been and a kick-off meeting was arranged for 4 o’clock in [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

28th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 27th January 2022 The Panel: James Heappey (Conservative) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Liam Halligan (GB News) Alison Phillips (Daily Mirror) Kavita Oberoi (Sales Rep) Venue: Morecambe “Mr Worth-Saying, you told the Puffins that QT [more…]

Culture

View From The Greenhouse (Envies Of The World, Innit?)

25th January 2022 Colin Cross 0

Unless you’re a strawberry obsessive then the first part of this installment of my bi-weekly greenhouse diary ramblings is going to be incredibly boring. Thankfully, as so few even bother to read the articles, much [more…]

Fiction

The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 21

23rd January 2022 Blown Periphery 0

Lake Laguna De Tota and Sagamoso It was late, about 10:00 when he surfaced from his room. Clarita had been drinking hot, milky coffee and dunking stale bread in it. She looked up and smiled [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Seven

23rd January 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday I am delighted to be back from my enforced Christmas and New Year break, and I understand that my scribe is now happy and anxiously awaiting the result of his Day 2 PCR test. [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Three

21st January 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie’s mobile woke her. Glancing at the radio alarm on her bedside table it read 23:45. She wanted to catch an early train in the morning so had given up waiting for Dirk to call [more…]

20th Century

Book Review: The Ratline

20th January 2022 Going Postal 0

I don’t read non-fiction books that often, however I’m glad I picked The Ratline up when I was idly browsing suitable reading material for a holiday last year (the holiday got cancelled). For, those (like [more…]

20th Century

A Very British Message to Garcia

19th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Previously, my colleague Fred Brownbill wrote of US Navy SEAL Marine Commander Brian Bourgeois, commanding officer of SEAL Team 8, who was killed in the first week of December 2021 while fast-roping from a helicopter [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 32

18th January 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

RESPONSES AND YARNS There were loads of comments on part 31 including the one from Sparks who enquired whether I had discovered a time machine as I had dated the article Saturday 1 January 2002. [more…]

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