Literature

Monsters

21st May 2020 Lugosi 0

In the 1982 I was lucky enough to be sent to Japan on business. On the 35th floor of an Osaka skyscraper they was a loud bang and the building was definitely swaying. My natural [more…]

Ch 62 – The Castle of the Eagles. Traffic was light. Vanessa guided the Mercedes, with considerable skill, around the heavy goods vehicles, and the few other private cars on the road. Timing her overtaking [more…]

War Crimes Chapter 8 – Love and Death in the Balkans

17th May 2020 Blown Periphery 0

War Crimes Chapter 8 The life could have been idyllic except for Jozica Marić and her irritating ability to get under Edge’s skin. Whenever she was around, cropping up at the other dig sites or [more…]

Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Nine

17th May 2020 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning Readers, another bright and sunny morning here in Westminster, so I’ll be on my favourite windowsill later. I can sleep there with an eye open to observe the comings and goings at No [more…]

Signs and Pottering; Rough Gardening During A Pandemic

17th May 2020 Colin Cross 0

For what seems like weeks now I’ve been describing, in laconic detail, just how tough it is keeping a 600 (or so) square foot greenhouse in an adequate enough state of repair to do its [more…]

The Swaling, Part Four

16th May 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

“To cut a long story short, Squadron Leader, we’re missing a chap. Looked him up in the London Gazette, to no avail. I could ask at the office, I’m at the Singapore Consultancy you know. [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

15th May 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 14th May 2020 Panel: Stephen Barclay (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Mick Cash (Trades Union Leader) Luke Johnson (Venture Capitalist) Devi Sridhar (Accademic) Venue: Oxford Author of the Hippocratic oath and conqueror of smallpox, [more…]

Joe Malone, Part Sixty-One

12th May 2020 Going Postal 0

Ch 61 – Taken for a ride. Lord Marmon-Herrington Bixby’s suits were too small for me. Just a shade to tight around waist and shoulders. But he had some jackets that were a bit bigger. [more…]

Boris, how dare you?

11th May 2020 Tachybaptus 0

Locking our people into subjugation, Ruining businesses throughout the nation, Stealing the future of a generation, Boris, how dare you? Carrie instructs him, he obeys with gladness, Plunging us into zero carbon madness, So we [more…]