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Still Not The Right Way To Put Out A Fire

20th November 2018 Æthelberht 0

You may remember some months back I related a story of my first fire exercise sailing under the Red Duster. I was somewhat unimpressed having come from a different seafaring outfit where these things were [more…]

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Seven

25th February 2019 0

Introduction By the 1860s it had become obvious that the days of the muzzle loading firearm were numbered and that any government that failed to re-arm its troops with breechloaders would quickly be left behind [more...]
Joe Malone, Part Seventeen

11th June 2019 0

Joe Malone and Vanessa Bixby are at the Reform Club. Vanessa has just pointed out Sir Alan Stuart, a spin doctor for Tony Blair, one of the two guests at the table. He was one [more...]
Friday Night at GP

18th October 2019 0

From time to time it is perhaps appropriate that we should relax a little the bonds that tether us to the straight and narrow. As we all know well, A fitting apologia for a bit of [more...]
This Septic Eye, Ch 8

1st May 2018 0

Let me just say something about the N word, yes that troublesome six letter word, that’s right, normal. I know that quite a few of you rarely even step outside of your homes in these [more...]
This Septic Eye, Ch 3

20th March 2018 0

Something truly remarkable happened last Sunday and it featured in every newspaper and TV station in the land. Under the circumstances I thought I would devote this entire section of Septic Eye to this extraordinary [more...]