Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Four
It was after midnight when he switched off the engine, the day had been long, but hopefully productive. Sally was in bed, but awake, she asked how the day had gone, “what were you doing [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Twenty-Seven
Jinnie had spoken to Alberto before returning to her dinner guests and after transferring the money to purchase the two hotels. She had quickly told him what was happening in Bournemouth and not to be [more…]
Fiction
The Ghost Of Peabody Manor
Introduction This podcast was meant for Halloween, so much for that after the Doc managed to do his back and legs in and ended up in bed for nearly a month. I hope that you’re [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings, Part Ten
Today, December 17th is a rather poignant day. It was the birthday of my younger brother who died many years ago. Each year since then I have called my sister-in-law on the day to see [more…]
Islam
Taleb A. – An Untypical Terrorist?
Labelled by mainstream media as an untypical terrorist and referred to by the German legal system as Taleb A., Taleb Jawad H al-Abdulmohsen was born into a Shiite family in February 1974 in the Saudi [more…]
Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Three
It was a struggle to get up, neither of them wanted to leave the warmth of the bed. The need to pee forced Dave out of bed first, it was 11:15. He brought two cups [more…]
Diary
A View (Actually) From The Greenhouse….Everything Is Not As It Seems…
Like me, you’d have been saddened but unsurprised by the latest in a long line of cars, as if driven by some kind of divine hand, crashing into innocent people going about their ordinary, if [more…]
Literature
The Peninsula Hotel
Just a few hotels in the world are known to almost everyone – Raffles in Singapore, Reid’s Palace in Madeira, The Dorchester in London, Waldorf Astoria in New York spring easily to mind. Add to [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings, Part Nine
Note to self – don’t do a final proof reading late at night after a whisky or two …….. However, life goes on I see the Tottenham Turnip and Pixie Balls have different views on [more…]