Jinnie parked on the off-street parking in front of her house. She had told the flatmates, well technically now her housemates, that she had rented a four-bedroom furnished house on their behalf. Over the summer [more…]
Question Time 28th October 2021 The Panel: Simon Clarke (Conservative) Lucy Frazer (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Sir Howard Davies (NatWest) Dr Miatta Fahnbulleh (New Economics Foundation) Jenny Campbell (Businesswoman) Venue: Stockport Your humble author has [more…]
Watching formal schooling, community spirit and childhood and family life in general being relentlessly trashed in recent years has made me think more and more about my growing-up years in a small Leicestershire village between [more…]
Peter Overend Watts, who may be familiar to some as the ex bassist of Mott The Hoople (a band once described as looking like ‘hod-carriers in drag’ by Roger Taylor of Queen), was a rock [more…]
Welcome back time-travellers. We have landed in mid-August 1997 at Scalloway on the Mainland of Shetland and are about to set sail for Fair Isle. Before we cast off from the Boating Club’s pontoon I’d [more…]
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…]
Edge was in the command tent with Martinez, the two Lieutenants and Master Sergeant Wilson. The boiler sent a fog of steam into the cold air and they were all drinking coffee. “Well, we’ve handed [more…]
Monday Another Monday and you find a very happy cat reporter. The family didn’t hang around in No10 very long and it’s lovely and peaceful again. I hear they have been loaned a luxury villa [more…]
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…]
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