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HMS Amethyst and the Yangtse “Incident”

25th March 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Simon’s Story It’s warm in the room and I’m lying cosily in that semi-trance state, debating whether to close my inner eyelids for ever, or to attempt to explain my small part in the story. I [more…]

Ooh, Aarr, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening, Part 3

18th April 2020 0

Hello Folks, the pace is hotting up and we’re closing in on the really good part of rough vegetable gardening, apart from the harvesting that is; it’s time to get things in the ground that [more...]
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

24th May 2019 0

Question Time 23rd May 2019 Panel: Simon Jordan (Entrepreneur. Sports Journo and erstwhile owner of Crystal Palace FC) Damien Green (Tory. Porno enthusiast and Remainer) Tracy Brabin (Labour. Ex Coronation Street actress. Remainer) Miatta Fahnbulleh [more...]
Writing and Publishing a Novel

22nd November 2019 0

In life you meet many people who say they have a novel that they want to write, but how many ever even start, let alone finish? A tiny percentage I would guess. I know someone [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Seven

24th October 2018 0

Why had he said that, the flood of relief perhaps at this unexpected, nay miraculous, escape from his impetuous stupidity? The man’s wife, a barely repressed desire to tell him she was safe? “I’ll report [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...]