Literature
Build Back Better
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir, I recently had occasion to travel by rail into London which I only do very rarely these days. I found the Terminus much changed from earlier times with [more…]
Literature
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Fifteen
Last time on Mystery Album our mystery posh mystery photographer family looked out from a Stockholm City Hall corridor, next to the Golden Hall used for the Nobel Prize winner’s ball, towards the Riddarholmen where [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 17
The jungle east of the Andes near the Ecuador Border. They were waiting in the jungle at the side of the track, the usual fighting patrol of eight Colombian Alpha troops and two Green Berets, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Five
Monday Morning merry readers, it is quite a bit warmer and dry this morning, just as I prefer it. I have been out and about already getting a breath of air to give me an [more…]
20th Century
Joyeux Noël – The Film & The Reality
“What would happen, I wonder, if the armies suddenly and simultaneously went on strike and said some other method must be found of settling the dispute ? ” — Winston Churchill to his wife, Clementine, [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Twenty Seven
Jinnie and Paolo finally broke their clinch and for a moment stood holding hands, looking at each other lovingly. Then Paolo took half a step back and pulled a ring box out of his jacket [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 30
I was delighted so many readers have enjoyed my recent accounts of sailing in the north of Scotland and thank DJM for writing – “A life well lived”. I couldn’t ask for a better epitaph [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 16
Bogotá Edge was late for his weekly meeting with Charles Medwin. It was around ten days instead of the usual seven, but he had been busy, as they all had. Edge was determined not to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Twenty Four
Monday Morning everybody, a little damp this morning. I had a surprise when I was eating my breakfast, there appeared to be a policeman in the kitchen. However, it turned out to be Bozzie dressed [more…]