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A Bear’s Diary – Part 30

14th July 2019 Tachybaptus 0

September 3rd, 1811. I have been too much occupied to keep up my diary for several months. We have all been toiling on the improvement of the Bear Inn, which had fallen into some disrepair [more…]

June 9th, 1811. At sea once more, we discovered that two of our crew had deserted, preferring the fleshpots of New York to their homeland and what will certainly be a more than generous reward [more…]

Rite of Passage

1st June 2017 0

The driving test! Cue stage thunder and lightning and dungeon torture screams. If your life is fairly ordinary and doesn’t include abnormal episodes, a serious accident, an illness, experience of battle – you know the [more...]
PMQs with Going Postal

21st February 2018 0

Link to PMQs on Parliament TV. Daily Politics. Andrew Neil presents live coverage of Prime Minister’s Questions. Guess The Year – You can watch the video clip now, and read the Rules/T&Cs here. Entries must be [more...]
“Sticking to Your Guns” – and Other Failed Strategies

12th August 2019 0

There can be little doubt that tenacity is a great virtue. It means holding on to something important, something you believe in, no matter what. The trouble with tenacity, however, is that it does not [more...]
Medicine – Part Five

10th July 2018 0

Something that many people do not realise is that cultures, technology, science and learning can go backwards as well as forwards. Just as you can have progression, you can also have regression. Although the way [more...]
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

8th February 2019 0

Question Time 7th February 2019 Venue: Motherwell Motherwell used to be the steel-making capital of Scotland. Ravenscraig was the main employer of some 13,000 people by the 1970’s but a disastrous strike of steel workers [more...]