Arts
Colin Cross
19th Century
Women of the 18th and 19th Century (An occasional series) 1. Sarah Losh
Sometimes I get to wondering, do things simply happen randomly or do they happen for a reason? Like many other people, no doubt, I’ve been watching “Gentleman Jack”, the dramatised version of The Diaries of [more…]
Authoritarianism
From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey
Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]
Fiction
“Smashing Hate”
Imagine the scene, a large sparsely furnished room with brick walls and whitewashed windows. The light in the room, although it is sunny outside, is opaque. Motes of dust float through the filtered sunlight. Brick [more…]
Arts
Revolution and Swamp Draining
Introduction If our traitorous, gurning, cowardly, yet ruthless and self serving hag of a Prime Minister passes this farce of a withdrawal agreement through parliament, then I would expect there to be either: civil unrest/rioting, [more…]
Arts
Weekend Postcard from Cumbria, Part Two
The best laid plans of mice and men. We’d sort of decided that, after an early night on Friday, we’d make a mid morning start on Saturday and try the Dovedale trail, possibly taking in [more…]
Arts
Weekend Postcard from Cumbria, Part One
Finally, after six attempts, we managed to complete our long awaited balloon trip on Friday last. Another forty things to do at forty, combined with a special birthday present from the daughters to Mrs C. [more…]
America
Postcard From Canada, No 7
Our daughter hadn’t planned on coming to see us off but just as we were getting ready to leave she turned up. I suppose it was only natural but it didn’t make it any easier, [more…]
America
Postcard From Canada, No 6
Kelowna had been great, everything about it, from start to finish, could hardly have been bettered but there was still more to see and do. We arrived back at The Mountain RV Park mid afternoon [more…]