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Da Vinci code mystery takes new twistStartling revelation as work of art undergoes restoration work.... | 8,527 | 341 | 3 | Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 | Jun 2021 | 2 hrs ago |
Why I lose my temperI really should stay away from here, this place just makes me too angry. Stupidity and dishonesty are two of the worst things for making me angry, an... | 4,454 | 156 | 2 | May 2020 | May 2020 | Jun 2020 | 20 hrs ago |
Intelligent and funny.If there's anything more attractive than intelligent women, it's funny women. [/youtub... | 1,293 | 51 | 2 | Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 | Aug 2020 | 6 hrs ago |
Buying a computerI have lately been making enquiries about computers, with a view to buying a new one. Apart from a small amount of frustrating and mostly fruitless r... | 566 | 14 | 1 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Jan 2020 | Apr 19 |
Prolific bank robber brought to bookProlific bank robber brought to book as inadvertent consequence of covid rules. Career criminal, Lee Champion, was taken int... | 431 | 11 | 1 | Aug 2020 | Aug 2020 | Aug 2020 | Apr 15 |
Why?It’s probably my own fault that I don’t know the reason why. If I could be bothered to actually read the entirety of the blogs it might possibly give... | 2,039 | 70 | 1 | Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 | 10 hrs ago |
PingI can remember, back in the 1970s, a very novel machine suddenly appeared in motorway services. It had a screen, and two knobs by which two short whi... | 634 | 31 | 1 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 19 |
I'm too clever for themThe scammers on this site aren't so smart. They try their hardest to get my email address out of me, but without success. Yet I have not the slighte... | 557 | 5 | 1 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Apr 19 |
I wonderI don't usually get involved with this sort of speculation. That's partly because I don't know enough about it, but mainly because I have always cons... | 1,162 | 36 | 1 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 15 |
TodayToday I am going to do the long overdue job of giving my bathroom (it's a bathroom without a bath) a good clean. I may be gone some time.... | 931 | 33 | 0 | May 2020 | May 2020 | Apr 22 | |
The only game in townI've got into the habit of playing the card game solitaire on my computer lately, when I can't be bothered to do anything else. We always called that... | 562 | 26 | 0 | May 2020 | May 2020 | Apr 20 | |
Mr. Wilson Comes to TeaFrom the author of The Frigid Midgets, more adventures from Mrs. Crompton’s garden. [/youtub... | 2,180 | 75 | 0 | May 2020 | May 2020 | 12 hrs ago | |
The Christmas walkI got an email from my walking group today. The proposed Boxing Day walk has been changed to another route because of all the rain we've had lately.... | 566 | 11 | 0 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Apr 22 | |
Why?Why are some people so uptight about breaking the rule on not asking questions in a blog? If, when asked why such a rule should be rigorously obeyed,... | 1,233 | 42 | 0 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Apr 20 | |
What's the difference.Between the forum, the blogs and the poetry section? They all seem to work on different time scales. In the forum the responses can be measured in... | 1,143 | 55 | 0 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Apr 20 | |
My blog door is always openPlease feel free to visit anytime. I'm expecting a very special guest, but he won't come if he thinks we are waiting for him, so I want everyone to... | 1,606 | 75 | 0 | Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 | Apr 23 | |
Tragic NewsI have just learned that the Titanic has sunk. Someone has created a blog for those who wish to follow events as they unfold. Let's spare a thought... | 2,436 | 108 | 0 | Dec 2019 | Jan 2020 | 12 hrs ago | |
Four little wordsDems.. ...Dems.. ...Dems.. Obama......Obama......Obama... Hillary...... | 662 | 16 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 | Apr 20 | |
The Frigid MidgetsPart 1 Mrs. Crompton was cycling home to her little cottage in the village when she came upon two diminutive, downcast figures sitting on the grass... | 2,081 | 88 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | 2 hrs ago | |
I have a dreamI had the dream again last night; the same dream I have had for countless nights; the dream that haunts my waking hours. I am on a packed rush hour... | 1,885 | 81 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 22 | |
Captain Apocalypse is backI see the ocean going crackpot has lost his marbles altogether. Or is he just hoping that he can persuade us to lose ours.... | 847 | 31 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 23 | |
Who will save us?We are living in very troubling times. We all know this because of the enlightening videos that numerous public spirited bloggers are constantly post... | 1,568 | 73 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 22 | |
Time for a cultural interludeI wandered lonely on a bleak high hill, but not as lonely as a Lakeland cloud. Nor did I see a single daffodil, despite my reading Wordsworth out a... | 679 | 21 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 20 | |
What I've been up toI've been spending a lot of my free time -of which I have quite a large amount at the moment- messing about with a 3D modelling computer programme.... | 719 | 22 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 20 | |
What next?I am writing this to the sound of the karaoke version of Bat Out Of Hell blasting through the estate that I live on. Just across the road is a man w... | 1,029 | 49 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 20 | |
How to grow oldToday we are going to be looking at growing old, and how to avoid doing it with dignity. People often ask me how I get away with behaving so immatu... | 1,599 | 61 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Feb 2020 | Apr 20 | |
The sparing of the rodA short story by me. “Spare the rod, sir,” begged Featherstone, hopefully. “I take no pleasure in this, Featherstone,” said the Headma... | 816 | 28 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 | Apr 20 | |
The GhostAn extremely short story, by me. “If you are a ghost,” said six-year-old Noah, “why do you look like a person? If you no longer need a... | 646 | 15 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 | Apr 19 | |
ColditzI delivered a radiator to an address in Calver, Derbyshire, the other day. The address turned out to be a massive 19th century mill that had been tur... | 759 | 15 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 | 1 hrs ago | |
The last villagerAt the beginning of 1943 the Derbyshire village of Derwent stood abandoned by all but one remaining inhabitant. By the autumn of that year the villag... | 544 | 7 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 | Apr 20 | |
Our Glorious PresidentThe same language that was spoken in praise of such visionary leaders as Hitler, Stalin, and Chairman Mao, seems to have been revived for the current... | 619 | 4 | 0 | Jan 2020 | May 2020 | 7 hrs ago | |
Flash Fiction #2. The AppointmentAinsley Goosebutt had to rush home from work on the Friday if he wasn’t going to be late for his doctor’s appointment. He had a quick shower, made hi... | 634 | 15 | 0 | Jan 2020 | Feb 2020 | 24 hrs ago | |
Flash Fiction #3. The GnomesA return to an old theme. Claude Moonpenny had a collection of rare, erotic gnomes. He had a few conventional gnomes in his front garden, but the... | 456 | 12 | 0 | Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 | Apr 21 | |
ChurchesThroughout my life, my association with the Church has been very casual. I daresay I must have been christened in one, but I don’t remember anything... | 1,630 | 53 | 0 | Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 | 9 hrs ago | |
My unwelcome guestI love browsing in second hand book shops. I bought a book about magic and was leafing through it one night when I inadvertently evoked a demon from... | 1,509 | 57 | 0 | Feb 2020 | Mar 2020 | 5 hrs ago | |
Fridge MagnetsAn awareness of my need to find a means of displaying useful information in such a way as to keep it beyond the bounds of forgetfulness came upon me a... | 1,200 | 43 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | 52 mins ago | |
A Perfect StormTwo unrelated circumstances came together recently to form what is currently the practice to call a perfect storm. It is hard to predict what a storm... | 1,418 | 71 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 20 | |
ProgressI can remember the days when people who had telephones were a very exclusive set. Most ordinary folk wouldn’t have known how to go about having a tel... | 838 | 36 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 20 | |
Once you get something into your headI was once swimming in the sea on holiday; not very far out and my feet could still touch the floor. I noticed something moving from the corner of my... | 1,010 | 42 | 0 | Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 | Apr 20 | |
Flash FictionThis is an attempt at flash fiction. I’m not completely sure what flash fiction is, so it might have been a bit rash of me to try and produce it befo... | 1,084 | 36 | 0 | Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 | Apr 23 | |
My vote countsI only ever voted once. That was for Margaret Thatcher, and she got in. That's a 100% success rate, when you think about it. I don't know if I will... | 553 | 8 | 0 | Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 | Apr 20 | |
I really must go. But Baby it's cold outside.It's October 31st and we're still in the EU. No ifs, no buts, come Hell or high water.... | 719 | 21 | 0 | Oct 2019 | Nov 2019 | Apr 20 |
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