Literature
Literature
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Sixty-Two
Ch 62 – The Castle of the Eagles. Traffic was light. Vanessa guided the Mercedes, with considerable skill, around the heavy goods vehicles, and the few other private cars on the road. Timing her overtaking [more…]
Fiction
Love and Death in the Balkans
War Crimes Part 8 The life could have been idyllic except for Jozica Marić and her irritating ability to get under Edge’s skin. Whenever she was around, cropping up at the other dig sites or [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Nine
Monday Morning Readers, another bright and sunny morning here in Westminster, so I’ll be on my favourite windowsill later. I can sleep there with an eye open to observe the comings and goings at No [more…]
Diary
Signs and Pottering; Rough Gardening During A Pandemic
For what seems like weeks now I’ve been describing, in laconic detail, just how tough it is keeping a 600 (or so) square foot greenhouse in an adequate enough state of repair to do its [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Four
“To cut a long story short, Squadron Leader, we’re missing a chap. Looked him up in the London Gazette, to no avail. I could ask at the office, I’m at the Singapore Consultancy you know. [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 14th May 2020 Panel: Stephen Barclay (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Mick Cash (Trades Union Leader) Luke Johnson (Venture Capitalist) Devi Sridhar (Accademic) Venue: Oxford Author of the Hippocratic oath and conqueror of smallpox, [more…]
20th Century
Through The Laurels, An RAF Story – Ch. 10
RAF Akrotiri, Bomber Wing. April 1972 Within ten days of arriving in Cyprus I was detailed for a Ranger to Masirah in **XH562, with Flt Lt Julian Flood as Captain. A three nights, four days [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Sixty-One
Ch 61 – Taken for a ride. Lord Marmon-Herrington Bixby’s suits were too small for me. Just a shade to tight around waist and shoulders. But he had some jackets that were a bit bigger. [more…]