Life in a Northern Town If this were the Whitechapel in the 1960s, retired dockers debating over pints of London Pride in the ‘Blind Beggar’ would glance nervously about while muttering under their breaths. Faces [more…]
It has been quite a while since I visited this topic, and looking back on my prior eight musings has given me the inspiration to rehabilitate the topic as it hasn’t really gone away. While [more…]
I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]
Your humble author and Imelda Marcos have been in the same place at the same time only once. Thirty years ago the trade winds had tempted a much younger me to a dusty road beside [more…]
I recently visited two old friends. We were united by the deaths within a week of mutual life-long friends a few weeks ago. I realised it was important that we keep in touch. I had [more…]
This not the first time that Václav Klaus’ astute observations and experience-based predictions turn out to be shockingly accurate years later, and I’m pretty confident it will not be the last. Even before the examples [more…]
The poll was taken in the wake of the Kavanaugh assassination attempt. Kavanaugh killer’s contents: He was arrested with a suitcase containing a tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, [more…]
As you read this, dear friends (assuming you do and you are) I’ll be relaxing, possibly with a pint in hand, somewhere in the North East, on a short break with the wife and the [more…]
A Suburban Street in South London Guess which will be the most well-financed political party in Britain in 2022? You’re wrong. Read on. While researching rubber-faced horror movie butler Rory Stewart for the weekly hour [more…]
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