20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1975
Featured song: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]
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20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1969
Featured song: The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped [more…]
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Lofty Ambitions
This is a tale of woe, a tale of lack of planning, of insufficient forethought and carelessness. It’s also a warning to all Puffins not to make the same mistakes as I have made, to [more…]
Arts
Flaming June (ii)
Every time I look at that picture, I seem almost to be looking out from near where I live, although the vista that includes St. Michael’s Mount is less distantly hazy, and the Mount more [more…]
Engineering
The Great British Sports Car 1945 – 1985
So, before we get to the “meat and potatoes” of this article let us set a few ground rules. What IS a sports car? – In my opinion a sports car should be low slung, [more…]
19th Century
The Rise and Fall of the Needle Gun 1841-1874
The Needle Gun Every once in a while in all fields of engineering there comes along an innovation that so revolutionises the existing technology that it makes long accepted ways of doing things obsolete and [more…]
Fiction
Samfyaza Chapter 14, Camp Mitkan – September 2006
It was Rosh Hashana Eve and once again, Afarin and Heyfa were alone in their apartments, as everybody else had gone home for the Jewish New Year. They had promised each other a meal out [more…]
20th Century
The War Correspondent, Part One
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When the first great war correspondent, William Howard Russell, went out to the Crimea for the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Nine
Monday Good morning people. Another rotten morning, cold and wet, not at all to my liking. I was down the garden and back so fast I surprised myself! Bozzie still hasn’t had a letter from [more…]