Wooden Leg – a warrior who fought Custer by Thomas Bailey Marquis
Within one lifetime an indigenous way of life is lost forever, the freedom of movement and the hunter gatherer lifestyle constrained.
What Christmas Means To Me 10
Life is nicer if you care and share, says David Stirrup.
Climate change: The view from a flood victim and views on COP27
So here we are. A year after our experience of climate change did COP 26 change anything? This year we have seen severe flooding, droughts, multiple wildfires, damaging storms and record high temperatures in…
Book Review “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis
Lewis’s book is slightly different in that it looks at the mechanism of how these future worlds could arise. He explores and explains the ways and means that fascism could…
Gardening update
Well I last wrote from my garden in April. So what is happening now and how have my suggestions worked out? Our potatoes have provided an ongoing harvest, with each bucket yielding enough…
Garden update
Well I last wrote from my garden in April. So what is happening now and how have my suggestions worked out? Our potatoes have provided an ongoing harvest, with each bucket yielding…
Gardening to help the food budget
We're all watching the price of food rise on a week to week basis, but hopefully the weather will improve enough to eat salad regularly. Here are some other growing…
Gardening for health and wellbeing
AFTER Dave Middleton’s amusing article on Growing Concrete, I think there is probably space for a more serious Gardeners Corner, so I will attempt to share my experiences in the…
The NHS under threat
THE current Health and Care Bill represents a grave threat to the NHS and the health of the nation. Presently at committee stage it has the potential to take the…
The fridge that would not die
Nostalgia First some personal nostalgia: In 1960 my parents moved into a new house, it had a larder in the kitchen, but my mum decided she needed a fridge, and…