19th Century
Mystery Album, Part Two
A mystery photo album has fallen into my hands. One that has raised many questions and set a difficult puzzle. No doubt Puffins can help me solve the enigma. But for the moment, let’s allow [more…]
Railways
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred And Eleven
Monday Morning all. Another week of reporting starts for your intrepid cat reporter and I must admit that the first few days are looking good. Firstly, from a weather point of view, it should be [more…]
19th Century
Mystery Album, Part One
A mystery album has fallen into my possession presenting a number of fascinating puzzles and thus far unanswered questions. Featuring a family, most certainly of wealth and importance, no captions are written beneath or on [more…]
Arts
Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part Two
Aleppo ‘No, Monsieur. I have only two other passengers – both English. A colonel from India, and a young English lady from Baghdad. Does Monsieur require anything?’ Monsieur demanded a small bottle of Perrier. Five [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week, One Hundred and Six
Monday Hi folks, bit dull this morning and a little drizzly. Looks like it will have to be an indoor snooze for me this afternoon. I need a bit of a sleep as I keep [more…]
Arts
Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part One
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong hills. The equator runs across these highlands a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred
Monday A happy Monday morning to all you wonderful readers of my little musings. When I started updating you humans on my escapades and what I hear around the corridor of power nearly two years [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From Kanchanaburi
In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]
19th Century
Britain’s Forgotten Railways – The Stainmore Railway – part 1
My grandfather spent his working life as a fireman on the railways and my father, having grown up living next to a busy railway line, was a big railway enthusiast so it’s perhaps not surprising [more…]