Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 2.2
ACT 2 SCENE 2 Orosius’ Castle. Enter OROSIUS, TILDA, VULPECULA, ETTY and JESSICA, with MAISIE carrying little VUSILLUS.
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty Two
They were ready to leave, later than planned, cleaning up behind them took longer than they had assumed. It always did and for all Alan’s faults he was thorough, not in the least relaxed about [more…]
Engineering
Gmbd, something about pixels
I looked at some of these videos where they put another head over a bit of film and I thought; “that seems to wobble about a bit, I wonder how they do that because I [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Taormina, Sicily
May 2017 Taormina was the venue for the G7 attended by the various world leaders and as I watched I remembered my holiday there. It was 1980 and we booked a fortnight knowing nothing of [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty One
Helena struck him once more as being really quite remarkable, just when you thought you might have seen all she had to offer, she revealed another new facet, maybe one unknown even to her, almost [more…]
Arts
This Septic Eye, Ch 1
Uncannily, like weapons of mass destruction, both infirmity and senility can also frequently be only 45 minutes from deployment. Spurred on by the obviously frail condition of one or two of our regular contributors I [more…]
Hobbies
Postcard from Sirhowy Valley Country Park
This is another of my favourite places to walk. (In a previous post I covered Llwyn-on.) A quick jaunt from Cardiff eastbound on the M4 to junction 28 then up the A467 will bring you [more…]
Fiction
Tilda and the Witches 2.1
ACT 2 SCENE 1 A Wood in Uraemia in the Rain. Enter FELIX, VISCUS and SOLDIERS.
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty
The Home Secretary had them all in her office for nine o’clock: the Chief Constable of the West Midlands Constabulary, the Commissioner of the Met, various other senior officers including the head of the Counter-Terrorism [more…]