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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…]

Némésis – Part 9

1st September 2019 0

Ash Shaddadi, the Syrian Governorate of Al Hasakha, December 2017 Ellis raised his carbine to kill the man who had dropped the grenade. It was a futile gesture because in the confined space of the [more...]
Postcard from Lille, Part 19

15th June 2019 0

I can’t understand why people are rude to the staff. I was always getting told off for being kind, or even just polite, to the maids and servants, or ‘helpers’ as they were often known. I was hissed at for always saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. Enquiring politely about their families was frowned upon and helping them with their chores got the second greatest insult [more...]
Winnie The Pooh Reports On The EU

18th October 2018 0

“I’ve been offered a new job”, confided Pooh to Piglet as they sat in the autumn sunshine in Hundred Acre Wood. “I wasn’t really looking for one, but a nice man from the BBC Department [more...]
The Internet

6th January 2018 2,527

“Commodore VIC-20” by Soupmeister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, [more...]
Postcard From Cumbria (A Week in the Lake District) Part One

14th October 2019 0

Some of you may remember that back in 2017 Mrs. C and I (it was all her plan really) made it our business to do 40 things together to celebrate having been married for 40 [more...]