Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

Maybe it is because I am not experiencing many new things at the moment, with my life very constrained by a severe shortage of money and wor...

This is another of my occasional nostalgic 'memories of' postings.  It takes me back to a time in the mid to late 1990s when I live...

This posting is not about cheese. I know Wensleydale cheese has experienced a boom since 'A Grand Day Out' (1989), the first Wallace...

I was intrigued to read that the so-called 'think-tank' group, Reform is advising that the UK move back towards the police structure...

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...

Last year I did a posting about how obsessed the British were with the past and how we seemed to only be able to derive pride from things th...

This post follows on from the one earlier today about imperial measurements. The title 'The Land That Time Forgot' is from a 1970s f...

This post is not about neo-colonialism. It is about the British obsession with the imperial measurement system, this is still in use in part...