Owain Glyndwr: an English Soldier History is funny isn't it? If we judged everyone on their pasts, well here's a few: St Au...

Wow. Got an order in work going to a Para captain at 'Merville Barracks' - named after the DDay gun battery where my uncle, private ...

Does anyone else think it's weird our 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th months are literally named 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th (Sept to Dec)? I...

As Warden Hodges (a character I have based my entire persona on) might intone: "RUDDY HOOLIGANS!" It was like (the Sly Stallone/Da...

A few lessons: 1. As with Brexit, politicians learn that democracy sucks.  2. People - especially (but not exclusively) on the left - have h...

Silly Batholomew.  He got out of the bath today (no mean feat for a spider) all dripping wet and proceeded to tidy up his toys.  "What ...

Far be it from me to engage in pointless hyperbole, as I once told the Sultan of Brunei as we sipped cocktails on the poop deck of his Royal...

I took this pic on Friday as I took Patch the Dog for a walk (or vice versa). There's something that renews my wonder of the world when ...

Dear Skechers Shoe People, I bought these shoes 10 years ago in Boston, in that there America.  Despite wearing them to the point of destruc...

Those evil Bin Ladens! First Osama in Afghan, now his Irish brother "Wheelie". 😱 will the evil never end?

Bartholomew Q. Kibble-Smythe (the spider) has finally finished the trunking over the electric wires.  "Let there be light!" He p...

I have a new friend and his name is Bartholomew Q. Kubbel-Smythe. But he likes to be called Bart.  I haven't asked him what the Q is f...

In Hong Kong people protest not to have politicians impose their rulers, to limit their freedoms.  Here we'll soon be told who the pol...

Without Eleanor of Aquitaine we may not have the freedoms the government is now trying to take away... 1. She became Queen of England and ...

In a week when Mr Fox snacked on our chickens, we needed something to lift our spirits. How nice then to see Cardinal Nichols with a Car...