Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Ten
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here Part Four is here Part Five is here Part Six is here Part [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Sampling
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly look at the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be probing [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd November 2023 The Panel: Jeremy Quin (Conservative) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Marie van der Zyl (Board of Deputies of British Jews) Mustafa Suleyman (AI Entrepreneur) Camilla Cavendish (Financial Times) Venue: Chipping Campden After [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Six – Chapter Four
Jinnie and Penny expanded their search for more debris that could have come from a drone. A walk around the pool deck revealed the burnt deck in several places and burnt piles of loungers, but [more…]
Hobbies
The End of the Road for Electric Cars
Imagine the following scenario….. In the beginning, all cars were powered by electricity, which was stored onboard in huge, heavy batteries. The cars were acceptable for use on short journeys, but on long journeys they [more…]
Cooking
The Christmas Cake, Part Two
In the previous weeks you’ll have been diligently nurturing, talking to and feeding your cake creation with some fine brandy or Armagnac using the timeless cook’s measure of “one for me, one for the cake”. [more…]
20th Century
The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Two
Brotherhood Platform, Naqshbandis, US, Sadat and Front Wheelers While Hassan al-Banna had defined the MB objective – seizing power by manipulating religion, Sayyid Qutb defined the means – jihad. Once the adepts admitted the supremacy [more…]
Cooking
The Christmas Cake, Part One
It’s a somewhat inclement Sunday morning approaching the end of October, the lawn which just a few short weeks ago was dead and brown is now lush and green but under an inch of water [more…]
20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Seven
Part 7 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Yellowknife, on the Great Slave Lake I flew the 800 miles from Edmonton to Yellowknife [more…]