Other Men's Flowers

No, we had that one in the cookhouse a few days ago. On a similar theme is the remarkable anagram devised for a crossword clue by that gre...

Here is a rude song and then a reconstruction of what happened 97 years ago today.  

By all means make the most of mistletoe over the next few days, but pay no attention to the claims of the pathetic remnant which used to cal...

More re-cycled posts from 2005 personal The idiot took me seriously food and drink It used to be no fun to eat at sea society The e...

Amazing what a top embalmer can do.

It is a truism that many top film-makers spend lucrative if uncredited time working on television commercials. It may be sad to think that t...

Sly innuendo is not something you expect to encounter when you consult the Oxford English Dictionary. However, in announcing the publicati...

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...