Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Seven
Monday What a lovely day yesterday; the sun got a bit too warm for me and I had to retreat from the windowsill to sleep on Bozzie’s office chair, well he isn’t using it just [more…]
Literature
Arts
The Swaling, Part Two
Miss Ng was a council house kid of sorts. Her family rented from Mr Lee’s Housing and Development Board. A truly Utopian organisation, it leased affordable property in projects that contained any and all of [more…]
Arts
Ooh, Aar A Progress Report On Rough Vegetable Gardening
Hello folks, being a rough old gardener has both pitfalls and rewards. The greenhouse itself has obviously seen better years and it’s a bit like Triggers rake. It’s the same greenhouse that was erected, along [more…]
18th Century
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th April 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Jeane Freeman (Scotish National Party) Sir Paul Nurse (Medical Expert) George Osborne (Journalist) Venue: Leeds Surgeon General, and inventor of the syringe, Nobel [more…]
19th Century
The Silver Pit
Some of you may remember that some time ago I wrote an article about my family tree research and how I’d discovered many interesting things about my family history. One thing I learned was that [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Fifty-Nine
What we are going to do, is you are going to telephone the BBC. Then we are all going to head to the BBC studios and get you onto the television. You’re going to be [more…]
Arts
Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe
Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Chapter 5 – Edge, This Sporting Life
War Crimes Chapter 5 The Regiment moved from Northern Ireland to Cyprus in 1991 and in the September, an extremely promising fly-half, Lance-Corporal Edge was selected to play for the 3rd Infantry Brigades rugby tour [more…]