Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Sixty-Nine
Monday Good morning cat lovers, it’s a lovely sunny morning and not too cold. The gardener is busy cutting the grass I wonder if it will be for the last time this year? While the [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th November 2022 The Panel: Richard Holden (Conservative) Andy Burnham (Labour) Ben Habib (Businessman) Charlotte Ivers (Times Radio) Darren McGarvey (Broadcaster) Venue: Skipton What would the panel do to encourage the economically inactive [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Four – Chapter Nineteen
On Monday morning Greta showed Penny into Jinnie’s office. Jinnie asked her to shut the door, to help herself to a mug of coffee and to take a seat. Jinnie explained to her that in [more…]
Arts
A Postcard From India; Delhi
I thought long and hard(ish) on how I could start off a series of “Postcards” about our trip to India. The whole thing came about following an off the cuff remark whilst discussing, with my [more…]
20th Century
How I came to mistrust, then detest the Main Stream Media
Ed. This was sent to me in 2018 by Moscow Fred, sadly he was never able to finish it. RIP Fred. I was reminded of it by the documentary on The Herald of Free Enterprise [more…]
Fiction
Samyaza Chapter 32 – Libya, – April – May 2011
The next time they visited Sirte, Belhaj was more disposed to see them. Afarin said nothing in the pick-up truck and was totally incognito in her silk farrashia and this time, Jean-Claude introduced Julian to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Sixty Eight
Monday Good morning cat diary lovers, yet more rain in Downing Street. I popped down the soggy garden path between downpours and on my way back I spotted one of those grey tree rats picking [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th November 2022 The Panel: Victoria Atkins (Conservative) Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Trevor Philips (Broadcaster) Ian Blackford (SNP) Venue: Snape in Suffolk The presence of Fatty Blackford allows us our [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Four – Chapter Eighteen
The evening after the trip to Crawley, Jinnie and Alberto spoke on the phone and both agreed that the trip had been well worth the effort. Jinnie was more sure than ever that Brian was [more…]