Arts
The Dark Side of the Moon, by John Harris
This is a book which shouldn’t work – yet it kind of does. An in-depth look at one particular album from one particular band would, on the face of it, seem too niche to have [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Pale Hands 3
9. The continued ringing of the telephone brought us both abruptly out of the past and Cambridge. ‘Your Father!’ I exclaimed. ‘My Mother.’ She whispered. ‘Richard Conyngham here: we’re at Waterloo and due to arrive [more…]
Culture
A View From The Greenhouse; Bath, A Chance Encounter, Long “Covid”
It’s been a month now since I last posted from the greenhouse, although, somewhat thankfully, it hasn’t been a month since I visited it. With the arrival of spring we see ewes and lambs arriving [more…]
Arts
Three Men on a Bike, Part Four
Two weeks after setting forth from Croydon we finally free-wheeled into St.Nazaire on the southern coast of Brittany, somewhat short of our initial target of St.Tropez. The tandem and single bike had survived various alarms [more…]
Fiction
Samyaza Chapter 3 – April 2006.
Contains descriptions of sexual relations. Her head was resting on his forearm, her body nuzzled up close to him. She was still asleep and he looked at her in the sparse light coming in between [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Forty One
Monday Good morning people, I am delighted it’s another bank holiday as it’s another nice peaceful day in Downing Street. Not quite so warm in London this morning but it is still very pleasant with [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Seventeen
As the university was on its Christmas break, Penny joined the rest of the human members of the household in travelling to London by the train every day. She was attached to the documents group [more…]
20th Century
The Woman Reporter, Part Two
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) One august day in 1947 a young girl with long legs and a mop of unruly [more…]
Arts
Three Men on a Bike, Part Three
Having recovered from the ravages of what we thought was pilchard food poisoning but was more likely some dodgy Camembert, and rested sufficiently at the Rouen youth hostel we ventured forth on Day 5 and [more…]