Arts
A View From The Farmhouse, Part Four
Work is ongoing to make more vegetables plots, obtain manure for the ones we have and keep the composting going. I will add another bin to the three recently built and establish a place for [more…]
Computing
The Slide Rule – Part 2
photo: featured_image.jpg Introduction Note: This article uses Mathjax script. Some script blocking web-browser plugins can prevent the mathematics from been rendered correctly. DM In the first part we looked at how to make a simple [more…]
19th Century
The Muslim Brotherhood, Part One
Hidden by Lame Stream and the un-elite political class, the polemics ignored or failed to grasp form the baseline for future problems as Puffins know full well. Where did the Muslim Brotherhood come from, who [more…]
Cooking
A View (Just Along The Road) From The Greenhouse; Working Class Heroes….Innit?
Autumn continues its steady, inexorable path towards winter and this year its bringing along with it a profusion of berries. The hawthorn has been particularly prolific and now the holly’s joining in. Plums and damsons, [more…]
20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Six
Part 6 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Flin Flon, North Manitoba This is a country where hard fact and fantastic fiction are [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Jaggard Case
The Jaggard Case is book number 10 in a series written by author J.C. Briggs. Set in Victorian London the series describes the adventures of one Charles Dickens (yes, that Charles Dickens) who has turned [more…]
19th Century
Oliver Sarony – man of many parts
My last lurcher, over 16, who used to run like the wind delighting in her agility but only a memory sadly, because of her age we used to take very sedate walks with much deciphering [more…]
19th Century
The Ghost with Wet Boots
Admiral Tyron was an extremely gifted Royal Naval Officer with a proven career of command, in the peacetime, post-Napoleonic era. On 22nd June 1893 he was Commander of the Mediterranean Station and was on board [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eight
Monday Good morning everyone, according to the BBC it is supposed to be warm and sunny today, but I see no sun, admittedly it is warm, but it is cloudy. While on the subject of [more…]