Issue 71

..arrived in England courtesy of the English soldiers who were then campaigning in the Lowlands as part of the Thirty Years War. Gin almost became the national sport. It was estimated that every fourth house in England was a gin mill and employers provided gin as part of their pay to workers. It is alleged…

..area of expertise whose utility in the context if the universe is on a par with the politicians and the clergy. It justifies its existence through largely demeaning activities designed to engender a sense of feigned happiness, whilst disguising that its role is to extract the maximum amount of work with the minimum amount of…

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.. to TJM. Anyway, now that the parameters of my existence are becoming confrontingly clear I’m not sure that I’ll have the time to expand on an idea for a sequel to TJM called The Cosmic Detective that my late wife Helen and I started working on in the ‘90s. I got as far as…

Our first regular dentist was the ancient Dr McIntyre, who was on the first floor off Cathedral Square in the then small but undiminished Christchurch. There was a clanking open-frame lift with pantographic doors, but one felt safer taking the wide polished wooden stairs up to the linoleum landings with their doors of frosted glass….