Cherrypicked stories

Before the brownwall came down -- not that I’ll be around to experience its dismantling -- it was next to impossible to communicate, to make yourself...

This is an old poem, 11 years old, in fact. I had been in Spain for 8 years at the time I wrote it. Nothing lasts forever and I think I knew it even then. Anyway, not much of interest here. Image Wikipedia commons.

On Saturdays we get a Guardian delivered it's always through our door at 8.55 the regularity makes us feel good that someone is in a routine their...

Evidence charged in midst gathered; rhythm pulsating, tempo building – echoing far and wide. Waterfall cascades in the dance, as lake fish and...

You believe what you believe, and I'll believe what I believe. Image wikipedia commons under CC licence.

In which D.I. Wood dislikes the health advice he has received and Archibald muses on mice and...elephants!

https://www.abctales.com/collection/moment At the Moment - Chapter 2 Since giving up drinking, Nate had felt the pull on so many occasions—more...

For the year of 2023, Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (which ranks countries by experts’ views of possible corruption in...

‘It was my uncle who invented it, Uncle Clive, he’s always been a very..unusual man, very clever. He designed the font that they use on tax forms...