Where’s their womb lining going to go, they going to keep it in a box?
Monty Python’s Life of Brian was not only one of the greatest comedy films ever made but some of the sketches in it have…
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I wanna tell you a story, as Max Bygraves often said. This one’s about an ‘Earworm’ song.
I want to tell you a story of how a song can get permanently embedded in one’s mind due to an association with an…
VE Day
Although in the UK much media and public attention is being focused on the local council elections we must not forget that today is…
Happy St George’s Day
It’s St George’s Day and as St George is the Patron Saint of England I’d like to wish all this blog’s English readers a…
From Elsewhere: More happened in 1776 than just the American Revolution.
There’s an excellent piece that’s worth reading over at the Critic magazine regarding what it is like to live through a period of momentous…
Yom HaShoah
At sunset tonight the day of remembrance of the Holocaust, or Shoah as it is called in Hebrew, starts. I will not write much…
A joke that has a large element of truth about it.
This one is very very good and it was from Peter the Hungarian over at the Harry’s Place blog in their April Open Forum…
A Lunar Triumph.
After a long journey to the Moon and back the crew of the Artemis II spacecraft has returned safely to Earth. This mission which…
Space, the final frontier
I’m watching in awe at the journey of the Artemis II spacecraft that is going to be going closer to the Moon than any…
(Long) Weekend Movie – Raiders in the Sky
It’s time for another of the occasional weekend movies that I put up. Today’s offering is ‘Raiders in the Sky’ made in 1953. I…
