Cherrypicked stories

A bit of a rant. The odd bit of totally unnecessary foul language. The views expressed are strictly the author's own.

Not sure if it’s because I was forgetting to take my Vitamin D or what, but I’ve been feeling a bit low. Suddenly it’s 2.30pm and your tea’s gone...

Well, what? I ask you. I've reached 10,000 words on this. That milestone usually means I'll get a book out of a project. However, it also means I probably won't post the other 40 to 50,000 on here. I might do an excerpt or two between now and whenever I do finish it. Keep an eye out for it on the 'Zon, sometime after Mr Martinez appears. Image is copyright Jaggery, source www.geograph.org.uk and used under licence CC BY-SA 2.0

Those outer planetary squares and trines are certainly going for it; France, Europe, UK, USA, oil currency, all in flux, feminine to masculine. Just...

Last Train Jennifer Pickup (For my Dad, a Steam Train enthusiast) So this is the end of the line, This is the last stop on the track, No more trains...

More of this? You ask. Of course, I say. In 2022 around 6% of rough-sleeping homeless/indigent people were veterans. This was down from 22% in 1997. (Good job, charities, but keep going) Not all people who are homeless are sleeping rough. Image author's own.

“Can I speak to you for a moment, Kit?” said Harkaway. “Sorry Mr Mayor, I just need to discuss a matter with my officer, I’ll be right back.” They...

Image from Wikimedia Commons - Author Peter van der Sluijs - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.

Someone had taken away my pig. It was there in my room when I went to school, but when I came back that afternoon, the pig had disappeared. I...