Language | Going Postal

Filth!

19th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Nothing spoils a joke more than having to explain it. There are six rules of humour. No there aren’t, there are eleven types of comedy. That’s not true, there are nine ways to make people [more…]

The Encyclopedia of Lost Languages

7th May 2019 Guardian Council 0

During my recent foray to visit some elderly relatives in Chemnitz, a place formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt (named after that famous German philosopher without whose political theories Herr Hitler would have been an impossibility), and [more…]

The Swaling, Part Fourteen

1st August 2020 0

Rather than being in a nun’s hostel, or a train compartment (with the Spanish army sleeping in the luggage racks), we’re on a balcony at the Royal Maroc hotel in Tangiers, thanks to Tammy and [more...]
Larry’s Diary Week Fifty Three

9th August 2020 0

Monday Morning happy readers and welcome to the second year of my Diary. I have decided to add a year number in the Article name so the week counter is set back to one. The [more...]
Commutativity

7th October 2019 0

A binary operation is said to commute if the order of the operands does not alter the result. In the real numbers, , the following commutative laws hold : for all for all Although these [more...]
War Crimes Chapter 21 – The Loadmaster’s Story

16th August 2020 0

Chapter 21 – The Loadmaster’s Story The aircraft movements woke him again, specifically a Nimrod MR4A blasting off at 10:00 hrs to commence its eighteen hour patrol, hoovering up electronic intelligence with its 90 antennae. [more...]
The Desert War – June 1940

6th June 2020 0

80 years ago this month the North African Campaign, or Desert War kicked off. On one side were the Italians, desperately trying to expand their Empire in Africa, on the other were the British who [more...]