Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Seven
Monday Good morning merry readers, I am delighted that it not as cold this morning. I knew it wasn’t as soon as I put my nose out of the cat flap this morning. I got [more…]
Literature
Arts
The Swaling, Part Thirty Nine
We’re in the underground comms room of a deserted nighttime British High Commission in Singapore. Outside, a swaling wind, a tropical storm mixed with the burnings of Indonesian crops, is battering the city state’s good [more…]
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Two
Jinnie loved her weekly whist classes, but she knew better than to discuss what she learnt with anyone, especially her boyfriend Hans. He was in the Hitler Youth (HJ) and took it very seriously. He [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st January 2021 Panel: Arlene Foster (DUP) Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Anand Menon (Politics Professor) Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Fein) Venue: Northern Ireland Not surprisingly, there’s a consensus abroad that mental health [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 6
In earlier parts of my story I described in general terms why and how I started educating myself about sailing and the main technical things to look out for in a yacht’s design and specification. [more…]
Arts
Film Review: The Usual Suspects
In the final moments of the classic film Casablanca, at the airport, Rick, an American refugee, and sympathizer of the underground resistance to the Nazi movement, has just shot and killed Major Strasser of the [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 3
ROSS The king hath happily received, Macbeth, The news of thy success; and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight, His wonders and his praises do contend Which should be thine or [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Six
Monday Morning all. Well, it’s AstraZeneca day at last. The rollout started this morning and fittingly the first person to vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca developed vaccine was 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, in an Oxford [more…]
Book Review
Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 1
I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]