21st Century
Fred and Doris
Doris said, ‘I heard on the BBC that us old folk are going to be confined to barracks because of that virus. They said it’s for our own safety,’ Doris was 83 and her husband [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Némésis – Book 3 Part 10
Another Time and Another place GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE CHEST Lillian Beate Holmen Gunshot wounds to the chest can be highly lethal. Depending on the injured organ, a large percentage of the patients die before [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty
Monday Monday morning and it’s breakfast on my own as the gang are still at Chequers. It was another wet and windy weekend courtesy of Storm Dennis. I hear that some of the poor people [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille Part 55
At the end of a veranda, which separated the novice nun’s dormitory from the school’s basketball court, was a ‘shower’. A pyramid of plastic buckets sat below a tap which part filled them as it [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th March 2020 Panel: Steve Barclay (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Pete Wishart (SNP) Richard Walker (Retailer) Professor John Ashton (Medical Expert) Venue: West Bromwich Your humble reviewer has been to West Bromwich and [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Fifty-Two
The bullets spat from the sub machine gun muzzle in a series of white flashes. I saw a puff of brick shards explode inches from my eyes as one bullet went into the wall in [more…]
Arts
Free Speech with Dr Ginsberg
I had a rare opportunity to speak to one of the foremost advocates of free speech recently, Dr Ernst Stavro Ginsberg, this was just some of the insight from this conversation. Q I understand that [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 3 Part 9
Ad Dumayr Syria 23rd February 2018 Working through her grief, Ripley ritually washed Pela’s little body and then went back into the dead fighter’s hut and found a beautiful, royal blue chador in the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Twenty Nine
Monday Well, that was a lovely wet and windy weekend. I didn’t go outside any more than was absolutely essential, it’s not nice getting wet fur and being blown all over the place. I’d much [more…]