Other Men's Flowers

For at least seven hundred years efforts have been made to stop people playing football. Sadly, this noble cause has never had much success....

In a post headed Karma Kanic the blogger Crispian Jago gives an account of the New Age Vehicle Well-Running Centre , which applies entirely...

This song was not sung during any of the recent remembrance ceremonies.

Continued from   HERE  .      We stopped in Malta for a night and luxuriated in a fine drizzle, the first rain I had seen for more than a y...

In my last post I described a little test I made to see if it was true that women are more superstitious than men. Knowing that among my re...

Some time ago ago I carried out a little survey to try to establish whether or not women, in general, taking it by and large, on the whole a...

Privy, jakes, house of easement, water-closet, lavatory, bathroom, toilet, bog..... The list is endless; supposed indelicacy is shunned, eup...

More recycled posts from 2005: people Gadaffi would never have made Patrol Leader literature Prolific writers and a busy lecher foo...

Did you know that if you want to get something for nothing you can do so quite easily? This is how: You choose an internet retailer whom y...

It is not surprising that the only incidence of bad feeling, arrogance and selfishness among the miners and all those involved lin the astou...

Back in 2004 we had a good time singing twenty love songs   , but one can tire of these. Let's have some songs about work;  here are lin...

No 32 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century January 1928  Not waving but saluting. The two elder sons of Mussolini...

Winter is not yet upon us, so why am I making use of a piece of equipment designed to help Antarctic explorers type up their diaries when it...

When I was at school, during the Second World War, our teachers were men who had been drafted in because they were not in the forces. Some h...

Now that Ian Paisley in his dotage has stopped masquerading as a ranting bigot and taken on the role of cuddly national treasure it is appar...

More recycled posts from 2005: sex A 28,000 years old toy words Supermarket gives away drugs computers WWW, phooey!

...if you are seven years old: Pay an official visit to the local Comisaria de Policias Lead an underwater expedition Try out the local ...

Andy Lewis (Le Canard Noir of The Quackometer) is bearing up very well after the recent demise of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, and...

This is the title of a wonderful book by Niki Segnit subtitled Pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook.  Published in June last y...

Cheese seems to attract poetasters, for there are hundreds of odes to it. Here is one written by Deric Guest, and published in Wine and Food...