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Crossword No. 39

3rd November 2018 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm today subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. To be determined. Choose from any of [more…]

Stalin’s Hammer

15th September 2018 Æthelberht 0

This is the first of what I hope will be a series on slightly less well known aircraft which are nonetheless very interesting. My choice for the first subject of the series is perhaps not [more…]

Crossword No. 29

25th August 2018 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug – the only way you can now acquire one! Email entries to me by 6.00 pm today subject ‘Crossword’. Last week’s winner. First out [more…]

Answers with next week’s crossword. Solution to Crossword No. 18 Across 8 America 10 Overage 11 Fetishism 12 Texan 13 Potus 14 Overpower 16 Cliché 18 Cheese 21 Banknotes 23 Slime 24 Sugar 26 Kissinger [more…]

The Unseen Path – Part Thirty Five

25th April 2018 1642again 0

“Hi Lena, how are you?” She had been a couple of minutes late and, due to constant demands from her work tablet for her attention, hadn’t been able to prepare herself for what could be [more…]

The Unseen Path – Part Thirty Three

18th April 2018 1642again 0

Ten o’clock, now we’re getting somewhere. Names at first, some numbers to match, some names obviously noms-de-guerre, whatever those classifications meant if anything, allusions to imports, depots, a few account details. Hazard an educated guess: [more…]

The Worthing Gooner Family History, Part Two

8th December 2018 0

As I explain in my previous posting it took me a little while to settle on the combination of software programs I used to develop my family tree. I eventually decided to use Ancestry as [more...]
King’s Quest – Afterword

29th March 2017 0

Afterwards there were hard years. No one could still the tempests or feed all of the hungry. Greater sensitivity to nature, prompted by inner sources, may have helped mitigate some of the harshness. Greater honesty [more...]
Mensuration – the pursuit of accuracy

20th March 2018 0

Western civilisation, and Britain in particular, can be credited with creating the World as we know it. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime [more...]
Progressive Politics, Polarisation and Populism, Part Two

13th June 2017 0

“Progressive” politics has become the engine which has led, possibly inadvertently, to the current polarisation of the United Kingdom. Nothing else has had such a far reaching and detrimental effect on our nation, its people [more...]
Cameron claims tampon tax victory over EU – EU agrees migrant deal

18th March 2016 0

Photo credit European leaders on Friday agreed a common position to put to Turkey’s prime minister in a bid to clinch a deal to tackle the continent’s worst migration crisis since World War II. The [more...]