Here’s something a bit different for you this Valentine’s Day. Last year, we had fictional dates from hell! The year…
We’re living in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. What is Truth? We can’t be sure. Censorship, fake news, watched all the…
Recently a number of films and TV shows have been removed from online streaming platforms due to what are sometimes…
I thought it would be fun to do an A-Z of my blog (too much time on my hands?) so…
For no reason whatsoever, here are some small problems which I find disproportionately irritating. It’s not a definitive list, these…
10th December 1840. William Smith was transported to Van Diemen’s Land on the ship ‘Duncan’ for a fourteen year sentence.…
I hate to get up in the morning when the sun is still in bed. I’ll spend the whole day…
11th November 1918. Charles William Scott, a Private in the 1st Kent Cyclist Battalion (British Army Cyclist Corps), died in…
Red noses, colourful baggy costumes, oversized shoes, white facepaint, wigs, bunches of balloons… and evil grins? It seems that clowns…
If you were online in the first few years of the new millennium, you’ll probably remember some frustrating things. It…