Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

You would think that in a period of high unemployment that the person in a job would be the best that you could get. The government is keen ...

I remember during the last depression in the British economy in the 1980s when redundancy became commonplace, even for people in what had pr...

Britain has a long history of pressuring people to behave in a certain way in terms of religion, from the expulsion of Jews from England in ...

As I travel around the South of England and elsewhere in the UK I pick up odd local leaflets and I came across one this week which fitted in...

There are a number of songs which not only remind me of my past because when I hear them they fire off reminiscences of that time, but becau...

When I was growing up there used to be a sign on the back of ice cream vans with a hand held up saying 'Mind Out! That Child May Be Deaf...

I have to apologise for another posting stimulated by reading 'The Guardian'. I suppose this is why people buy newspapers in order t...

This posting is really simply to record that five boys were sentenced today for the murder of Goth woman Sophie Lancaster in Bacup, Lancashi...

As regular readers will know, this blog is very much about downloading things from my brain into a more reliable storage space than my memor...