"How Soon Can I Leave?” by Susan Hill Number 27 of 27 Great British Short Stories Premise: A woman wakes up to what she has(n’t) done. Sort of. Review: Nicely done, ineffably sad. What else is there to say? Outa ten: 9 Keywords: mothers, motherhood, time and tide Quotes: “As a girl, she had looked... Continue Reading →
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Arthur Conan Doyle #GBSS19/27
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Arthur Conan Doyle Number 19 of 27 Great British Short Stories Premise: In April 1883, Sherlock and Watson save a woman from Evil. Review: Ah, brilliant stuff. I read this forty years ago. I should read all the short stories. Why did I not do this 40 plus... Continue Reading →
Three brilliant podcasts: on Callan (etc), Henry IV pt1 and the proscription of Palestine Action
Three podcasts (played at 1.5 because I am a philistine, according to the wife anyways) while I fed the moorhens, ducks and swans. Spybrary Spy Podcast: Paranoid Visions - Spies, conspiracies and the secret state in British television drama Am currently devouring the Adam Hall Quiller books (probably too quickly, to be honest). So found... Continue Reading →
Bodily resistance to the war machine – or “draft dodgers, jammy dodgers and giving the piss”
The war machine eh? It springs to life, opens up one eager eye. It takes in farmboys and factory fodder and turns them into killers, who come home in a casket or deadened in other ways (often, not always). And as soon as the meatcogs are surplus to requirements, then see-ya-wouldn't-wanna-be-ya and you can be... Continue Reading →
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