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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…]

Uncle Bertie, Part One

16th September 2017 0

It had been several weeks since I had visited my Uncle Bertie and as I walked down the driveway towards the substantial gothic edifice which loomed out from behind the fir trees bordering the front [more...]
Question Time with Going Postal, 9th November

9th November 2017 3,039

Graphic EJ David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Croydon.
A History of Pop Music – 1970

25th January 2019 0

Featured song: Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they [more...]
Selective Education

26th March 2018 0

Whenever I hear the subject of grammar schools and selective education come up I pay attention and listen with more than a modicum of interest. When discussed by our esteemed establishment media it’s usually accompanied [more...]
History – boring old stuff, innit, really ..

31st October 2016 0

Those of us who attended school when that meant actually learning instead of ‘exploring feelings’, when learning meant actually acquiring new knowledge which we could and would be asked about; when spelling and grammar was [more...]