Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Nine
Monday Good Morning, my happy readers. Well, it’s the start of another week, and it’s wet and gloomy here in Downing Street. When I say wet and gloomy, I want you to be sure I [more…]
Royal Navy
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Eight
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. Well, another chilly morning, and I woke up to the central heating on again. I am very thankful to whoever it was who moved my cat basket next to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Six
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It was grey, grotty, misty and chilly this morning when I went out. The bad news was that the RNLI landed another 120 illegal immigrants yesterday evening, bringing the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Five
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It was grey, grotty and chilly this morning when I went out, so I suppose autumn is well and truly here. It’s rather nice here in Number Ten, as [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Four
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. Brighter this morning and quite a decent day out there. It looks like it’s going to be a decent week here in Downing Street, as Mascara Man is off [more…]
18th Century
Cuthbert Collingwood: The forgotten hero of Trafalgar
Collingwood was the other admiral at Trafalgar. He was the first into the fight, took charge of the whole fleet after Nelson’s death and brought every British ship through the storm that followed. He was [more…]
Engineering
A Wet HS2? Part Three
DIP’s nuclear element The vast expense of the nuclear element of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) – by far its largest commitment – has drawn our focus in two previous articles upon the following: Dreadnought [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Two
Monday Good morning, my happy readers, the cat is back. It’s been an eventful few weeks while my scribe has been stuffing his face on a cruise. When I last wrote a column, Mascara Man [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Nine
Monday Good morning, everyone. It’s nice and sunny at the moment, but there is thunder and lightning forecast for later. I don’t like all those flashes and bangs. As usual, Legohead has been at Chequers [more…]