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I’ve a copy of Philippa Gregory’s novel, The Other Boleyn Girl . I’ve had it for around five years. Keep meaning to read it. She’s written a stack of books and over 40 novels. These fed into her belief that women are the ghosts of history. She spent ten years researching Normal Women, drawing on archives, letters, and historical records that fed into her ficton. And at around 600 pages she’s re-written history: his-story as her-story. She gives...

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The moron’s moron is in Scotland. His mother was born on Harris and was a native Gaelic speaker. Despite his Scottish roots, he’s not popular in Scotland. Ironically, we may have passed peak Trump. His strategy of lying and denying helped make him the man he is and President of the United States. His supporters want release of what is loosely termed the Epstein files. The moron’s moron suggested Joe Biden was implicated. Summary of Quantitative...

Uncle Nolan Nolan Brown

Why have people stopped going to church? The number of people attending church weekly in the UK is half what it was in 1976. It has fallen from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. Many churches are full of old people and wondering if they will still be there in 20 years time. The same situation is effecting most western countries. On an Irish radio station, a reporter said to a Catholic priest, 'You must despair.' He said, 'I don't despair. People have...

The Sea Boeties Grampa & Grandson Sand castles

‘Fire and Rain’ is playing on the radio, James Taylor’s rich voice is singing… ’but I always thought that I’d see you again”… Tears form easily in my eyes these days and this line makes them fall. ‘Walking my mind to an easy time’ ….another line in the song perfectly describes what I’m trying to do every day and every night. Writing helps me to focus, helps me release some of the muddled, painful feelings whipping through my mind. It is an...

A foreword by Jim Al-Khali inform the reader this is the third book in which leading scientist and engineers are interviewed and their responses recorded for Radio 4. Few of us are going to shout at the radio (or its contemporary equivalent) about the origins of our universe but when it comes to viruses and Covid-19, in particular, conspiracy theorist think they know better than the experts here. I always go with whatever Father Ted thinks...

Some very strange things had been going out outside my neighbour's. All sorts of unfamliar vehicles were pulling up in his designated parking space where the big number 6 was painted on the ground. Last week there had been a really old looking Ford Zodiac. Now something even stranger. This little white vintage car with an open top, bright red leather seats and a tiny little engine at the front that might have been a hundred years old. A really...