Biography
Sailing around the world
We accidentally sailed around the world, but by good luck we survived the Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. There is currently obsessive talk of death, but on that morning a ¼ of a million people [more…]
Literature
Arts
A Message from Marianna
Hi, I’m Marianna Spring! I’m 24! I’m the BBC’s specialist misinformation reporter. You may recognise my wide-eyed, 24-year-old face from The One Show, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 4, pictures I post of myself having [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 6
It was rather a strange experience for Lance Corporal Jarvis, who had worried that he might be out of his depth in the brigade headquarters. While it was true that he saw very little of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Nine
Monday Well, it did snow here yesterday, but not much and most of it melted. I did pop out but not for long, unlike the Mutt snow is not for me, he can go and [more…]
Book Review
Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 2
Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the Great Plague of Athens In Part 1 of this series of articles about what is widely regarded as the greatest surviving piece of ancient historical writing, I tried to sketch [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Forty One
Miss Williams’s accommodations resembled a hotel room rather than an apartment, and a middle-market one at that. Its attraction was location, location, location rather than size, furnishings and decor. That location was the seventh floor [more…]
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Four
Thursday came around quite slowly for Jinnie as she was anxious to hear more. She had seen Ethel on a couple of her visits to the residential home since the last “whist” night, but she [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 4th February 2021 Panel: Oliver Dowden (Conservative) Thangam Debbonaire (Labour) Dr Wanda Wyporska (Equality Trust) Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Farmer) Professor Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Venue: London On last week’s all-female Question Time, men were excluded [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 7
PREFACE I’d like to start this article by explaining I scan the comments as each part is published and decide whether or not to continue the series accordingly. I’m now too old to continue for [more…]