Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Eighteen
Jinnie settled into a window seat of the 13:47 train from Munich to Mannheim. As yet there was no sign of Steven and the train was due to depart in five minutes. Jinnie had swapped [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st October 2021 The Panel: Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Heather McGregor (Edinburgh Business School) Brian Cox (Actor) Venue: Glasgow More restrictions to prevent a winter wave of Covid? [more…]
20th Century
Book Review: “We Defended Normandy” by Lt Gen Hans Speidel, 1951
Could War In Europe Have Ended in 1944? Was Montgomery right ? Americans said “No”, now Speidel says “Yes” “We Defended Normandy” by Lt-Gen Hans Speidel (Herbert Jenkins, 12. 6d.), 1951 Book review by [more…]
Arts
Growing In A Pandemic – End Of Season
I’d intended to have a little rant about the continuing brouhaha surrounding “vaccines”, “vaccine passports” and such matters, as it seems pretty clear to me that those who we employ to govern us have spent [more…]
Fiction
The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 7
Edge was chatting with the men of The Urban Counter-Terrorism Special Forces Group – Alpha, otherwise known as AFEUR or AFEAU. They were good soldiers, but more at home in the cities of Colombia. They [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hunderd and Fifteen
Monday Another Monday and back to work for this cat. Nice and peaceful as loads of people have gone to Manchester which I understand is ‘Oop North’ and has petrol. Perhaps Bozzie could make himself [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Five
Last time, our well-travelled Mystery Album photographers took us to South Walsham on a Norfolk Broads wherry holiday. We were left tied up at the present day mooring of Lord Fairford. Since then, the ladies [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Seventeen
Easter term didn’t start until 27th April which meant that Jinnie and her flatmates were looking at working for the SIS for around 3 weeks after Easter. To make it easier on them they were [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 14th October 2021 The Panel: Penny Mordaunt (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Samuel Kasumu (Former No10 advisor) Anne McElvoy (Journalist) Robert Winston (Scientist) Venue: Nottingham Lorriane wanted politicians to say sorry regarding the conclusions [more…]