Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Five
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. I hope you had a lovely weekend. I did; it was another couple of nice sunny days and quiet in No. 10. However, it wasn’t quiet down on the [more…]
Liverpool
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy-Seven
Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of the ramblings of your favourite cat reporter. A nice morning today again, but I’m delighted to be able to tell you that Legohead had a grotty [more…]
20th Century
Scandal After Midnight
Busy times for Mrs Francis Killen. The adverts had been placed. The VIPs were on their way. The early weeks of 1960 saw her guests begin to converge on Merseyside. If her curly-wired bakelite GPO [more…]
Hobbies
Queen Ann Naming
Some Puffins may be vaguely aware of Mrs A’s enthusiasm for cruising, and in the course of this has booked us a cruise on the spon-new Cunarder, Queen Ann. Unfortunately she was unable to book [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 14th March 2024 The Panel: Lee Rowley (Conservative) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Stephen Flynn (SNP) Ayesha Hazarika (Broadcaster) Melanie Phillips (Columnist and author) Venue: Liverpool Question one, will redefining extremism prevent extremism? We hope [more…]
20th Century
Family Connections
Holiday 1932 My father’s parents were married on 8th October 1931. My grandfather, Elihu, was a 25-year-old mechanic. His bride, Edith, was four years his junior and worked in a wool shop. My grandfather left [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Liverpool
Mrs B and I are currently on a QM2 cruise to Liverpool and back to Southampton which occurred because of the cancellation of a transatlantic sailing after a fault was found in the funnel, of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Ten
Monday Morning all. It was extremely quiet in the building when I woke up this morning, no mutt, no Wilf, no Little Otter and no Bozzie the noisiest of them all. I was sure it [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
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…]