Computing
Digitising Old Photographs
The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]
20th Century
The good war myth
It has long been a given that World War 2 was a “good war”. The allies were fighting against the beastly Germans and “right” was on their side. A chap called Chad Crowley has put [more…]
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-One
Great news to see the back of Zia Yusuf. No place for a muslim Chairman in a party one of whose major tenets should be anti mass immigration and preservation of the British way of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Four
Monday Good morning my happy readers, it’s sunny in the morning but I hear it is going to be showery later. I didn’t remember it was a bank holiday until I saw how empty the [more…]
20th Century
Gary Lineker: Parallel Lives
I only saw Gary Lineker play once. Our local eleven were away to Leicester City in a fourth-round FA Cup tie. This was 1985 – a mere 40 years ago. The game ended in a [more…]
Fiction
The Past is Present, Chapter Nine
Monday morning was hectic, Sally was out the habit of getting ready for work, she had her story ready for why they had to come home early from their holiday, it was the same one [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1979
Featured song: Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall – Live This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 5th June 2025 The Panel: Alex Davies-Jones (Labour) Darren Millar (Conservative) Llinos Medi (Plaid Cymru) Mark Serwotka (Trade Unionist) Annabel Denham (Journalist) Venue: Llandudno Annabel Denham is cagey about her personal details. We [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Fourteen
When Jinnie got to the TT SuperBurgers offices on Monday morning, the first thing she noticed was both Belinda and Brian’s cars in the Directors’ car park. Jinnie headed up to her office and had [more…]