Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Sixty-One
Monday The start of another week and I’m ready to brief you all on the happenings I observe, but not until I’ve eaten my breakfast and read the papers! Grunt Shatts was asked on TV [more…]
Literature
Arts
The Swaling, Part Twenty Three
Singapore. Forward Singapore! Everybody’s favourite piece of squashed diamond real estate, 31 miles by 17 miles, lies fashionably 200 miles south-east of Kuala Lumpur and 70 north of Sumatra. Here Malays, Chinese, South Asians, and [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 1st October 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Helen Stokes-Lampard (GP) Stuart Rose (Businessman) David Linden (SNP) Venue: Carlisle Question Time began its celebration of black history month in the best [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Part 27 – Death in the Algarve
The Transavia flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport, touched down at Lisbon thirty minutes behind schedule. The passenger who had been sitting in the starboard isle seat by the over wing exit, waited for the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Sixty
Monday Morning all. A great weekend, I got some real roast chicken in my bowl and I got the mouse! Early Sunday morning I crept into the main office and there he was sitting in [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Twenty Two
By the time I’d returned to my room, paddling up the dripping steps, Emile had curled up on her end of my bed and had fallen asleep. Wept herself to sleep even, after overhearing me [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th September 2020 Panel: Alok Sharma (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Sir Edward Davy (Liberal Democrat) Peter Borg-Neal (Businessman) Devi Sridhar (Public Health Official) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Venue: Chingford The present MP for Chingford [more…]
Arts
William George Bunter of Greyfriars School
Introduction I recently emerged from a stunning and brave expedition into the furthermost recesses of our capacious loft space clutching a dusty cardboard box bearing the single word ‘Books’ that had lain forgotten there for [more…]
Arts
In praise of journalists, or perhaps not
I am not a journalist, the closest I have ever been to them is while I was working at News International’s fortress in Wapping during the move from Fleet Street to Docklands in 1985/6. I [more…]