Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Twelve
On Monday morning, a Transit van was outside, it was loaded with boxes of files retrieved from various locations following the raid on the farm. There was no way it would all fit in the [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th February 2025 The Panel: Luke Pollard (Labour) Alicia Kearns (Conservative) John Cauldwell (Entrepreneur) Maya Goodfellow (Academic) Freddie Gray (Journalist) Venue: Derby This week’s ‘live on iPlayer’ QT kicked off late owing to [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-Five
Jinnie parked at Maple House and, before locking her new Lexus LM, checked her watch. She was not going to be late; it certainly wouldn’t do being late on the first day of trading of [more…]
Hobbies
Northumberland, Part Two
It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]
Biography
Fiction
An Old Man’s Musings, Part Eighteen
Fucking hell. I have just watched George Galloway’s latest speech. I have always liked his oratory and this surpasses anything I have heard in years. I love the man. And I believe he speaks for [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Nine
Monday Good morning, people. Surprise, surprise, it’s damp and gloomy once again in Downing Street, and that’s not only outside Number 10. Inside, we have a wet, rather than damp, PM, and he is very [more…]
20th Century
It’s Not 1939, It’s 1950
It’s 1939 all over again! Or is it? Perhaps it’s 1950. A date we can be certain of is 2014 when, as Kiev tipped towards the EU and NATO, Moscow-backed Russian separatists prised parts of [more…]
Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Eleven
Sally was up as normal on Monday morning, Dave said he would be Ubering. When she was at her desk, she made a call, when finished, she went off to see her boss, “I have [more…]