Spiders | Going Postal

My Elderly Aunt

10th June 2019 Going Postal 0

As she is so old now and we try to dredge up our shared history, she tells me things I never knew about our family. Her parents, my grandparents fell in love, got it together [more…]

Well, you asked for more icky stuff, so here is some. Don’t complain to me afterwards! Anyway, if you think all this ‘gender fluidity’ and transgenderism is some weird newfangled thing invented by bored Millennials [more…]

Who was Will Brereton?

16th August 2018 0

Chances are, if you asked this question (always providing the person had heard of him at all) the answer would be something about a dashing young courtier who was beheaded for having an affair with [more...]
Presumed Consent

9th January 2018 2,493

At the Conservative Party Conference in October 2017, PM Theresa May pledged to introduce a system of presumed consent for organ donation in England. A similar opt-out system has existed in Wales since 1st December [more...]
Medicine – Part Six

17th July 2018 0

The West As mentioned previously, technology and cultures can regress over time as well as progress. The Roman Empire in the west fell, whether quickly or gradually is debateable. What isn’t is that Rome ceased [more...]
Sex and drugs and upper firsts

4th January 2018 2,235

I live a few miles out of Durham City, in a former pit village. For those who don’t know Durham it is a World Heritage site and home to Durham University, one of the prestigious [more...]
Crossword No. 59

23rd March 2019 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winners. Tbd. Choose from any of the mugs [more...]