Arts
Recipe – Bobo’s Big Man Buns
My Old Dad was an infantryman in World War Two, and he didn’t have an easy time of it. He did start the war off with quite a stroke of luck, though. When his battalion [more…]
bobo
Cooking
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Yes, there are two paths you can go by. But in the long run there’s still time to change which road you’re on. – Lao Tzu There exists in nature a particularly blasphemous little organism [more…]
21st Century
A Hard Bunch Of Old Folkers
This a true story, and for once I can be unusually precise as to the date: towards the end of July in 1982. I was living in North Yorkshire at the time, and me and [more…]
Arts
Graveyard Shift
I used to work in a cemetery. It was a dead-end job, but you could always bury yourself in your work! Oh, ho ho ho! I humbly beg your pardon. I shall start again. I [more…]
20th Century
Legion of the Damned
“For every foreign-born soldier who dies, no German mother weeps” – Gottlob Berger The Waffen SS was the military wing of the Nazi party, although it is important to note that membership of the NSDAP [more…]
20th Century
Murder on Meon Hill
Meon Hill lies in the valley of the River Avon, on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. It is an outlier of the Cotswolds and, although it reaches only a modest 194m of elevation, [more…]
20th Century
How I became a Sex Worker
In the late Seventies I spent a couple of years in Amsterdam. Whilst I was there, for a time I was employed as a Sex Worker. Right, that got your attention, didn’t it? Oh, don’t [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Bellagio
Bellagio is a town on the shore of Lake Como in Italy. It is also, as one of the more percipient of our commenters once pointed out, the most Anglicised town on the lake. Nevertheless, [more…]
America
The Puckle Gun and Others – Part Two
Author’s Note:- Right, you lot. It must by now be blatantly obvious that we could have dealt with this in a far brisker fashion. Absent the cleverdickery and all the chortle-chortle, so-called funny stuff and [more…]