Fiction
Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Fourteen
At 19.25 they were sitting in the restaurant, as they entered Dave had asked for a quiet table. They were shown to one away from anyone else. He explained that there may be a third [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th October 2024 The Panel: Douglas Alexander (Labour) Damian Green (Conservative) Steve Rigby (Businessman) Konstantin Kisin (Podcast Host and Author) Ash Sarkar (Political Commentator) Venue: Rotherham We can vote them out but we [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Seventeen
Jinnie sat in her upgraded Virgin Upper Class seat with a gin and tonic. She could get used to her and the family booking Premium and travelling Upper Class. In her view Upper Class wasn’t [more…]
20th Century
European Journey 1953, Part Eight – Sezanne
This small French town of Sezanne is one of those places — like Crewe — that you are always passing through but somehow never get to know. Three routes nationales converge on it like the [more…]
Book Review
Book review: Erotic Vagrancy, by Roger Lewis
What a title, eh? I was a bit uncertain as to whether to order it from the library or not, in case they started to wonder what I was up to. Happily they didn’t (or [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Four
There has been a lot of discussion on the blog about where might be a good place to retreat to if the future becomes as bleak as it appears at this time. Who knows what [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Fifty-Three
Monday Good morning from a not very happy cat. I trotted down to the bottom of the garden and it was horribly cold and wet, and I returned a soggy cold moggy. I must admit [more…]
Fiction
Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Thirteen
As planned, he left the café and walked down the street, it was still early on Sunday morning, there was hardly anyone about. Dave reckoned he had a maximum of fifteen minutes before Roger Peterson [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time Philadelphia 2024 The Panel: Martina White (Republican) Malcolm Kenyatta (Democrat) Brian Lanza (Trump advisor) Anthony Zurcher (BBC corespondant) Mehdi Hasan (Broadcaster) Venue: Philadelphia What’s the state capital of Pennsylvania? Wrong! Harrisburg. Added to [more…]