Larkers A.D. | Going Postal

A Barren Shore, Part Two

23rd October 2020 Going Postal 0

An even greater slab of armour plate than the one we had stumbled across decades before, stood upright blankly showing its wounds, punched through and scored by shot, rusty red, the memorial to those Finns [more…]

A Barren Shore, Part One

16th October 2020 Going Postal 0

This is a personal memoir of several visits to the far north and going realisation of what had always been before my eyes, unseen and recognised. I am not an historian and certainly not of [more…]

The Internet is Simple, Part Four

13th September 2017 0

“File:Stickmen Free Speech Oppression.svg” by JasonCarswell is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 You will probably want to read Part One, Part Two and Part Three of this series before continuing… The UK, of course, ever [more...]
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

17th January 2020 2

Question Time 16th January 2020 Panel: Baroness Chakrabarti of Kennington (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Alyn Smith (SNP) Madeline Grant (Daily Telegraph Comment Editor) Laurence Fox (Actor) Venue: Liverpool To this reviewer’s recollection, Brexit was only [more...]
The Troubled History of the Potato

17th September 2020 0

The potato is a native of the high Andes, a low-growing plant (Solanum tuberosum) with pretty purple flowers and round black fruits. To survive in its harsh environment it has evolved the habit of growing [more...]
The connection between the Commandos, the US Rangers and the SAS

1st October 2020 0

Apart from the fact that they are all some kind of special forces, the real connection is that they were all given their names by Dudley Clarke who finished the war as a Brigadier. Who [more...]
The Flower Lady

27th August 2020 0

Richard and Caroline had gone to Wales for their holidays. Caroline had made her disappointment clear at having to miss their annual visit to Greece, due to the pandemic, but Richard was secretly relieved: he [more...]