America
Run Donald Run?
Is it ever winter on the Florida Keys? The first week of December saw a relaxed Nigel Farage facing the GB News outside broadcast cameras framed by sun-soaked palm trees, bleached golden sands and the [more…]
Always Worth Saying
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Twelve
Last time on Mystery Album, we enjoyed the briefest of ports of call in Copenhagen. As we turn another century-old Photex Expandable Album page we find ourselves re-visiting the world of steel wheel, steel rail [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd December 2021 The Panel: Maggie Throup (Conservative) Thangam Debbonaire (Labour) Wendy Chamberlain (LibDem) Theo Paphetis (Businessman) Professor Peter Openshaw (Medical expert) Venue: Weston-super-Mare As a measure of how inward-looking the politic bubble [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Eleven
As we turn another page of our Mystery Album, it is not too difficult to identify the next sepia print. Any Puffin who has ever strolled along Federiksgade in the direction of Rosenborg Slot, perhaps [more…]
America
Ships That Pass
Two Rascals I looked down on a thunderstorm. The distant lights of late evening Manhattan were being complimented. Clouds beneath me luminesced with staccato lightning flashes above a rain-lashed Long Island. 1988 had ended badly. [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Ten
In this instalment of Mystery Album, some of our wealthy mystery family are off for a walk in the Swaledale countryside. While the ladies are elsewhere doing lady things, stout shoes (rather than walking boots) [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Nine
Last time on Mystery Album we discovered that our mystery family were enjoying a fishing holiday at the village of Gunnersdale’s Kings Arms hostelry in Swaledale. Given the state of the dry stone walls and [more…]
Engineering
Busy Days at Cop Junction
Cop junction lies just north of Charlisle, an English cathedral city on Network Rail’s West Coast Main Line somewhere between Preston and Motherwell, possibly within a giant spike in the border penetrating well into Scotland [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Eight
There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]