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It appears my friend and yours, Fly in the Web author of 'The Venomous Bead' site has departed this life. I say appears, as it is d...

  In an effort to get away from railways I have been reading books.  These include Tom Chesshyre's 'Slow Trains Around Britain.  You...

  It is the usual UK summer, 31% C. in my flat, that's just over 90 F.   Politicians are making speeches, none of which condemn global w...

  The fridge told me I had to go to Sainsburys. What had been a comforting sight of milk, bread, meat and cheese, now stood skeleton like i...

                                                        Newcastle Central Station on 18th June 1894. I've been cogitating on railways ag...

I am actually attempting, slowly, to get rid of some books.  The books in question are 13 volumes of 'The Great War,' by the 'Am...

  Instead of watching the half-time rubbish I watched this, proper music!

 It's that change over time of year again.  Parliament, schools, and businesses tend to go on holiday about now.  The media will spend t...

So there we have it.  Another example of how Fifa have ruined the World Cup, not only by holding it in the USA Trump dictatorship but by als...

  There is on Twitter one of those interminable debates, began by an arrogant and clearly ignorant Englishman, in which the English demand t...

  I hate technology! So, I try to log Facebook into another browser as Opera is so slow. We go through it all well until it says 'verify...

Fifa, and their world cups, have always been surrounded by corruption, so it is not unusual to discover such corruption is continuing today....

The reporting of facts regarding any major event involving a nation will always see the home nation as the centre of events.  This is why th...

  A combination of hot weather and no football made me switch on cricket today.   Almost immediately England were out! Good one I say! From ...

It's hot. It is now 31% here, indoors.   Now here is a horrible thought.  I am dressed like a Greek statue! It is still hot. I have been...

This man left, I read he was in tears, claiming his love for the country and his family.  Claiming he had done his best, his duty, and wande...