Holiday
WG’s Summer Cruise, June 2026 – Part Two
Wednesday 10th June – Home to Southampton and to sea Very little to do this morning before leaving home. I did have to lug my suitcase downstairs from a spare bedroom where I had been [more…]
Summer 2026
Arts
How Good it Was – End of Season Football Trips – The Journey Up
I’ve put up George Harrison “When We was Fab” a few times so a different one echoing the same sentiment. How good it was indeed. Anyone who has been part of a sporting team will [more…]
Diary
A View From Inside T’Greenhouse; Hard And Far Right Flags….Innit?
A Proper Yawk Up © Colin Cross, Going Postal 2026[/caption] If there’s one certain way to ensure that the long awaited “summer” doesn’t last anywhere near as long as one might hope it would, it’s [more…]
Book Review
Book review: Proto: how one ancient language went global, by Laura Spinney
Who are we, and where did we come from? Might our ancestral languages hold the key? More years ago than I care to remember, as a teenager I came upon an old book published in [more…]
Holiday
WG’s Summer Cruise, June 2026 – Part One
The Prologue I booked this cruise while onboard P&O Arvia in the Caribbean the Christmas before last (2024). P&O are a bit artful, they leave a copy of the latest cruise brochure in your stateroom, [more…]
Arts
A Laotian Farewell (past memories part II):
It was early March in 1975 when the editor wandered into the newsroom of the New Zealand Herald and asked for volunteers to go to Vietnam. Specifically, Saigon. The older men kept their eyes down, [more…]
Arts
Down on the Farm. 1977-1982 – Sheep, Crops and the Dam
A second piece about activities on the school farm. As I’ve said in the last piece the place was a massive source of entertainment for teenage boys. Let’s get down to details though. Sheep The [more…]