Vincent Comet | Going Postal

A Passenger’s Tale

25th May 2020 Tom Pudding 0

How it all began Not long after our new neighbours Ernie and Maisie Allen moved in next door, my wife and I were invited to join them and a group of their friends for drinks [more…]

The Unseen Path – Part Forty

9th May 2018 0

GOOD FRIDAY Ten minutes from the farm, the sun sinking in the west, the American girl dozing on the back seat, at least she wasn’t arguing now. If Helena hadn’t gone with him to [more...]
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

17th January 2020 2

Question Time 16th January 2020 Panel: Baroness Chakrabarti of Kennington (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Alyn Smith (SNP) Madeline Grant (Daily Telegraph Comment Editor) Laurence Fox (Actor) Venue: Liverpool To this reviewer’s recollection, Brexit was only [more...]
Off Grid Living, 1945 to 1953

21st February 2017 0

I lived for the first seven years of my life in a hamlet on the western fringe of Salisbury Plain. At about six hundred and sixty feet above sea level it was a fairly bleak [more...]
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

1st March 2019 0

Question Time 28th February 2019 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Tory. Leaver [just]) Barry Gardiner (Labour. Remainer) Layla Moran (LibDem. Remainer) Lionel Shriver (author. Leaver) Henning When (comedian) Venue: Catford, London It is a matter for conjecture, [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Twenty Six

24th March 2018 0

Sally and her son were up early, just after dawn, to find Martha and Iltud already drinking tea at the kitchen table, their porridge slowly bubbling away on the range. They smiled at her as [more...]