Biography
Sailing my life away, part 5
Unless one is rich enough to have a yacht custom-built to one’s own specification, which I certainly was not, one has to choose a “Production” model in much the same way most people buy motor [more…]
Literature
Book Review
Book review: Corona False Alarm?
“Corona False Alarm? Facts & Figures”, Dr Karina Reiss & Dr Sucharit Bhakdi. This very timely work was first published in German at the end of June 2020. The English translation, published in September of [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 1
This is the final part of the War Crimes Trilogy. The protagonists will go on to a well-deserved retirement, some having made it, while others haven’t. All people who have served on active service and [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Four
Monday Hello everyone, what a horrible morning for the shortest day of the year. Well, not really the shortest as they all have 24 hours, but the shortest daylight hours. Miserable and wet but not [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Thirty Six
We’re in an underground comms room in Singapore, suffering a bit of low key blackmail as an old contact, Tammy, on the New York side of a cell-phone loudspeaker, wants to know something, before she’ll [more…]
Arts
Move Over Plan 9, You’ve Lost Your Status
About a week before Halloween, we popped into Tesco to pick up some of the stuff we might need for the week ahead but also a few Halloween goodies, including sweets for trick or treaters [more…]
Fiction
Hope in the Darkest Night
Detective Inspector Charles Hope detested mortuaries. Some pathologists were matter-of-fact in their dealings with the dead and part of him understood. They had a job to do and most of them carried out their gruesome [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Chapter 40 – Epilogue Three, Edge’s Swansong
Chapter 40 – Epilogue Three, Edge’s Swansong He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. William Shakespeare The virus came and the Deep State was [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Three
Monday Another week and it was a little warmer when I popped into the garden before breakfast. While Bozzie was eating his Breakfast he got a phone call from Handoncock. I could only hear half [more…]