Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 11
The modern government buildings were located in a new office block off the Avenida Calle 82. Edge was one of the first to arrive and found it shut, so they decamped to a coffee house [more…]
Literature
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Nineteen
Monday Morning everyone, I’m sure you will be happy for me enjoying a weekend of peace and quiet without the humans. The Dreamies Girl was in this morning and has left the radio on low [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Nine
Last time on Mystery Album we discovered that our mystery family were enjoying a fishing holiday at the village of Gunnersdale’s Kings Arms hostelry in Swaledale. Given the state of the dry stone walls and [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Twenty One
Just over a week after her meeting with the PM Jinnie realised that things were starting to happen. She had put the radio on to listen to the morning news while making her favourite soft [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 11th November 2021 The Panel: Lee Rowley (Conservative) Lucy Powell (Labour) Emma Pinchbeck (CEO of Energy UK) Tom Newton Dunn (Political Commentator) Alastair Campbell (Former Press Secretary) Venue: Hartlepool First question, do you [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From Summer 1954, Part Three – Scarborough
In 1954, the Manchester Evening News launched a “Special Investigation” and tasked my uncle, John Alldridge, with answering the question – Holidaymakers, do you get value for your MONEY? What follows is his report on [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 27
I start this article with a response to points raised or ideas triggered by comments on part 26, and as usual thank all those who made them. The continuing interest stimulates further effort to keep [more…]
Engineering
Busy Days at Cop Junction
Cop junction lies just north of Charlisle, an English cathedral city on Network Rail’s West Coast Main Line somewhere between Preston and Motherwell, possibly within a giant spike in the border penetrating well into Scotland [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 10
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The [more…]