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Culterally-Appropriated Tandoori Pheasant

28th October 2020 Captain Black 0

The shooting season is with us again, and many of us are looking for good recipes for our game birds. I find roast pheasant, frankly, a little dull and dry and the best recipes for [more…]

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

8th January 2019 0

I was musing on the small pleasures in life this morning: hot, clean water on a cold day; the scent of flowers that catches you unawares when walking through a dormant winter’s garden; the taste [more...]
Joe Malone, Part Twenty-Three

30th July 2019 0

My office building was just up ahead. No lights were on. The other tenants having concluded their shady business for the day. And moved onto their shady night businesses for the night. I used my [more...]
Postcard from Allendale

10th May 2018 0

Allendale is a small market town, high in the North Pennines, some 10 miles south of Hexham. Only accessible by rough B roads, it is not en-route to anywhere in particular, so is isolated and [more...]
John Stonehouse

21st November 2018 0

Today’s brief piece recalls a disappearing act that caused somewhat of a stir back in the day that I’m sure many of you will remember. The brief career of a rapidly rising star and his [more...]
A History of Pop Music – 1963

7th December 2018 0

Featured song: The Beatles – Please, Please Me This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making [more...]