As you read this, dear friends (assuming you do and you are) I’ll be relaxing, possibly with a pint in hand, somewhere in the North East, on a short break with the wife and the [more…]
In Scotland and Lancashire they had (maybe they still do have) Wakes Week, a time when factories, mines and the like closed for 7 days to allow people to go to Blackpool, get pissed and [more…]
If you thought strawberry tales was boring, then I guess you’d better hold my coat (as the saying goes). Following several days of not being able to even enter the greenhouse, apart from a cursory [more…]
Monday Another week breaks for your cat correspondent to report on. It was lovely and sunny when I woke up this morning so I thought I would take my stroll down the garden in preference [more…]
Monday Good morning humans, it was a bit grey when I went out this morning, but now I have finished my Felix I can see the sunshine through the kitchen window. I will have to [more…]
Trade Surpluses and Deficits Any country’s trade balance is the difference between the totals of its exports and imports respectively, as measured in its own currency. To the extent that its exports exceed its imports, [more…]
‘This Sovereign Isle’, or ‘Britain in and out of Europe’ by Robert Tombs was published by Allen Lane on 28th January 2021. I got my copy from Blackwells at a slight discount to the £16.99 RRP [more…]
Saddam Hussain Pol Pot Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Boris Johnson The more pedantic sections of our grand old society will point out that 2020 was not the start of a new decade, rather, the end [more…]
I am not a journalist, the closest I have ever been to them is while I was working at News International’s fortress in Wapping during the move from Fleet Street to Docklands in 1985/6. I [more…]
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