Arts
Literature
Embers of The Affair, Part Four
A la recherce du temps perdu (Proust) My woman When I hold her, hold my woman Hold her tight against my bosom Cries she like a little spirit Spirit of the hills and forest. [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety-One
Monday Good morning, friend, and it is a very pleasant one—dry, warm, and sunny. Legohead is off to Scottishland later to talk to the Donald, who is over to open a new golf course, so [more…]
Diary
Dairy of a Chaperone
Many years ago, during my previous, more interesting life and while still in possession of hair, teeth, ears that could hear and twenty-twenty vision, not only had a bamboo curtain been thrown around China by [more…]
Fiction
Downfall, Chapter One
Dave and Sally sat watching TV, their dinner on trays, the news was on, it was early September. It was a Wednesday evening, Sally had come home first from her job at Loughborough University, she [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes Pt.2: Stayin’ Alive
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up (but quite possibly life saving) googly from the gasworks-end of [more…]
Authoritarianism
Dreading The Weekend
The Prime Minister and Cabinet are dreading this weekend. Why so, and how do we know? Because they keep on telling us, not least via endless references to a summer of discontent brought to us [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twenty-Three
Over the few weeks since Jinnie returned from the grand opening of the Ennios St James Bay, it had been a busy time in the De Luca house. There had been the preparations for Izzy [more…]
History
Dog Walking Thoughts No 3: Going To The Dogs … or Chin Up?
It’s not what it used to be. Everything, I mean, it’s just all gone to …. I sometimes wonder if I’m not just becoming one of those ‘old people’ that just thinks the country has [more…]