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Holding Hands – Part Three

19th October 2020 SharpieType301 0

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. In [more…]

Holding Hands – Part Two

12th October 2020 SharpieType301 0

In Part One, I explained that my husband and I travelled to Moelfre, not far from Oswestry, to see a sculptor by the name of Tony Meadows. During that visit, Tony had made an alginate [more…]

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III Flashback to Sharpie Towers a few years ago, when my lovely husband and I found ourselves looking forward to a significant wedding anniversary. Our tenth to be precise. [more…]

More Bees

11th May 2020 0

I’m assuming you are only reading this because Swiss Bob has run out of: faggot and quiche recipes, and/or Old Trout’s maths questions, that bring back nightmares of my ‘A’ levels from longer ago than [more...]
Ramblings about robbing the dead

24th November 2017 3,823

Occasionally, I step in something quite unpleasant. The noxious substance of which I speak is an article about Inheritance Tax written by a certain Will Hutton back in 2007. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/07/comment.inheritancetax It is old, I know, [more...]
Bidding for Tenders

26th May 2018 0

Introduction This is intended to be a short series of articles which it is hoped will cast a little light on the curious world of commercial bids and tenders. While the focus is on [more...]
The Swaling, Part Eighteen

29th August 2020 0

And that was our routine. For the following nights, I would collect Tammy from the Royal Maroc, just after dark, take her to my establishment and pay her in. The night would be spent on [more...]
Larry’s Diary Week Eight

20th October 2019 0

Monday Unlike my prediction on Saturday, yesterday was reasonably peaceful here at Number 10. The only thing worth mentioning was that David Cameron is stirring it up again in the Sunday papers. Everyone hates a [more...]