Aviation | Going Postal

Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Part 2

7th November 2019 Æthelberht 0

I’m back again with the second part of this series about the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – the Luftwaffe’s forgotten fighter. In the first part we covered the genesis of the Fw 190 and how the [more…]

Aspiring Anorak Aversion Therapy

24th October 2019 Going Postal 0

The subject heading may read as though it is an introduction to an accountancy exam, but no, it is aversion therapy applied to an obsession, by licensed operators of machines such as the Dehavilland Chipmunk [more…]

Crossword No. 84

21st September 2019 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug of your choice, or GP beer mats. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. [more...]
This Septic Eye – The Acceptance Speech

5th June 2018 0

ER: “Philip, is he still here then, the Septic Eye fellow?” DoE: “I think so, thought he’d buggered off but he’s back like a bad penny. What does he bloody want now?” Thanks Maj and [more...]
A Bear’s Diary – Part 9

17th February 2019 0

June 25th, 1809. We are returned to London. Our journey from Portsmouth was necessarily a slow one, as no stagecoach driver will countenance adding eight bears to his passengers. In any case, Fred deemed it [more...]
National Trust AGM 2019 – The Non-Woke Block Vote

8th October 2019 0

I can understand those who walk away from bodies like the National Trust once it become woke, yet when these things happen there is rarely enough of an exodus to drag the organisation back to [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty

3rd March 2018 0

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...]