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…]
Literature
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…]
Arts
AWS, News at Ten, in Church
Dong! Puffin reads in church. Dong! Puffin makes a mess of it. Dong! Puffin advised not to look at the comments. As the rules for such things changed yet again, and as such a thing [more…]
Arts
Staycation; A Postcard From The Cairngorms (Part Two)
Following our trip on Loch Ness on the Tuesday we went into Inverness to eat and get a beer, the food (a reasonable enough burger) was passable and the beer was by Innis & Gunn, [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Chapter 26 – A Far-Right Terrorist Hate Crime
Chapter 26 – A Far-Right Terrorist Hate Crime For the next few months throughout the winter, Edge spent a great deal of time in the public library conducting research. He had exhausted and largely met [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Fifty Nine
Monday Good Morning merry readers, Monday again and Yah it was back to Felix with Gravy this morning. I must have eaten all the stuff with jelly. It wasn’t chicken but beef, not quite as [more…]
Authoritarianism
Indy Pedant Geeks And The Temple Of Our Ennaychess
A veritable curse has been placed upon the glorious and gracious Ms Geeks, a tribulation to the right leg that only a blessing and a prayer from Our Sacred Ones in Our Ennaychess can cure. [more…]