Author Archives: Ian

“Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers,With England’s own coal, up and down the salt seas?”“We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter,Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples, and cheese.” “And where will … Continue reading →

When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald,In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field,He called to him Hobdenius—a Briton of the Clay,Saying: “What about that River-piece for layin’ in to hay?” And the aged Hobden answered: “I remember as … Continue reading →

The first happening was and is the attempt by Microsoft to distribute an update for Windows. This evidently contained and error or errors and caused mayhem amongst the Windows using world. This did not directly affect this blog because it … Continue reading →

A rainy day – there’s something new ! Our garden maintainer was outside pruning large lumps of shrub off the hedge opposite our house, which he then cut up and put in our black bin. Tomorrow is bin collection day, … Continue reading →

We hurled ourselves out of our respective beds at the ungodly hour of 8.00 am (I was a hero and did my hurling at 7.30 am and got washed and dressed there and then). The reason for all this madness … Continue reading →

We have reclaimed our first floor . . .

If you pay taxes in the UK, your money is helping fund disinformation, division and conspiracy theories. Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lee Anderson, and a host of other right-wing propagandists are benefitting from taxpayer-funded government support. A recent investigation from … Continue reading →

To really understand the present day situation in what was once rather loosely called “Palestine” a sort of starting point might be the Balfour Declaration of 1917. And one needs to bear in mind that Declaration was made in wartime … Continue reading →

WCSP is short for West Coast Sea Products.

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