17 March 2016 First Char Your Grouse By J.R.Thomas Occasionally the Shaw Sheet gets into its tattered tweeds, pulls on its muddy wellies, exchanges the bowler hat for a flat cap, and heads for the hills and dales of rural Britain. Life is different there and what causes excitements in the Great Wen raises not… Continue reading Issue 45:2016 03 17:First Char Your Grouse (J.R.Thomas)
Category: Features
Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday (Lynda Goetz)
10 March 2016 Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday, “Bah Humbug!” Why the modern celebration is a fabrication and a guilt trip. by Lynda Goetz “Mother’s Day is really just a test of your other half’s gift-giving skills,” pronounced Bryony Gordon in The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella Magazine. What?! (I think I might just be allowed to… Continue reading Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 44: 2016 03 10: What Price a Pension?(Frank O’Nomics)
10 March 2016 What price a pension? Save more or work forever by Frank O’Nomics Forget that Stephen King novel, or watching old Hammer Horror movies. If you really want to give yourself a fright, take a look at recent studies of the age at which today’s 22 year olds are likely to be able… Continue reading Issue 44: 2016 03 10: What Price a Pension?(Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 44:2016 03 10: Fading Icons-Agents of Change (J.R.Thomas)
10 March 2016 Fading Icons- Agents of Change by J.R.Thomas In one of the odder reversals of sentiment of modern times, residential estate agents have become eternally grateful to bankers. For years and years the most embarrassing thing that one could possibly admit to at the neighbourhood cocktail party or the school gate was that… Continue reading Issue 44:2016 03 10: Fading Icons-Agents of Change (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Surviving the Flight (Chin Chin)
10 March 2016 Surviving the Flight Auckland to Dubai By Chin Chin The new service from Auckland to Dubai takes over seventeen hours and I must say that as it looms up I am conscious of a slight trepidation. It isn’t so much that it might not be comfortable or that the food or films… Continue reading Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Surviving the Flight (Chin Chin)
Issue 43: 2016 03 03: Once Again,From the Top (J.R.Thomas)
03 March 2016 Once Again, From the Top by J.R.Thomas As the A303, the old high road from London to nowhere in particular in the west, sweeps its way past Stonehenge and across the Wiltshire Downs, it passes a minor turning marked “Bishop’s Fonthill”. Follow the lane and at the end is one of those… Continue reading Issue 43: 2016 03 03: Once Again,From the Top (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 43:2016 03 03:Going to the dogs with canine dopplegangers (Frank O’Nomics)
03 March 2016 Going to the dogs with canine doppelgangers by Princess Lottie of Islington (with help from Frank O’Nomics) The world seems to be awash with people who are obsessed by animals and two recent books highlight the fact that some men are taking this obsession to the extreme by, at least temporarily, changing… Continue reading Issue 43:2016 03 03:Going to the dogs with canine dopplegangers (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 43: 2016 03 03: The Oscars Quiz (Lynda Goetz)
03 March 2016 The Oscars Quiz by Lynda Goetz I don’t know about you, but I feel as if the 88th Oscars happened weeks ago, not just a few nights ago. There has been such interminable coverage that I am sure you must all know everything there is to know about these Hollywood back-slapping awards and… Continue reading Issue 43: 2016 03 03: The Oscars Quiz (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 43: 2016 03 03: Did Caesar Play the Bagpipes? (Chin Chin)
03 March 2016 Did Caesar Play The Bagpipes? The background to the Ides of March By Chin Chin “O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!” The words of MacDuff echo across the hills and vales of Scotland. Never a laird’s hall, never a shepherd’s croft but the dismal news strikes… Continue reading Issue 43: 2016 03 03: Did Caesar Play the Bagpipes? (Chin Chin)
Issue 42: 2016 02 25: The Ngalawa Cup, Part III (A Nimmo)
25 February 2016 The Ngalawa Cup (Part Three) A sailing adventure in the Indian Ocean. by Alexander Nimmo Last week we left Alexander and crew returning to land with lashings coming loose and a detached outrigger; but the damage proves to be only a temporary setback… We were delayed by a day, but had support… Continue reading Issue 42: 2016 02 25: The Ngalawa Cup, Part III (A Nimmo)
Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Bugs (Chin Chin)
25 February 2016 Bugs Their role in character assessment. By Chin Chin “Still through the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurled” The poet’s vision of arriving angels has inspired many a singer. It is a very different story however when the arrivals are not angels at all but mosquitoes, moths and other assorted… Continue reading Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Bugs (Chin Chin)
Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Trouble in the belfry (JR Thomas)
25 February 2016 Trouble in the Belfry Raising a clanger by J.R.Thomas It is amazing what the human race will do for pleasure. This column has a fascination with politicians, but it often ponders what on earth makes normal people want to spend time trying to shin up the greasy political pole, endure the anti-social… Continue reading Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Trouble in the belfry (JR Thomas)
Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Meningitis B Vaccine,Junior Doctors and Budgets (Lynda Goetz)
25 February 2015 Meningitis B Vaccine, Junior Doctors and Budgets A minefield of emotion by Lynda Goetz I fear that I might make myself very unpopular here, but I do feel that there are some aspects of certain current preoccupations and situations that might benefit from further discussion. I have three children, now all grown… Continue reading Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Meningitis B Vaccine,Junior Doctors and Budgets (Lynda Goetz)
